Regional Scholars

The Middle East Center offers regional scholar status, at its discretion, to researchers, scholars and post-secondary educators whose work deals substantially with the Middle East or North Africa, and who make a commitment to engage actively with our programs and initiatives. For further details about how to become a regional scholar, please click here.

Samer Abboud

Associate Professor of Global Interdisciplinary Studies, Villanova University

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Yasemin Akış

Visiting Professor of Religious Studies, Villanova University

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Ahmad Al-Sholi

PhD candidate, Stony Brook University

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Osman Balkan

Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, Swarthmore College Senior Fellow, Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies, UPenn

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Jennie Bradbury

Assistant Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College

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Megan Brown

Assistant Professor of History, Swarthmore College

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Juan Castrillón

Postdoctoral Fellow, Annenberg School for Communications

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Pardis Dabashi

Assistant Professor of Literature, Bryn Mawr College

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Sotirios Dimitriadis

Post-doctoral fellow, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

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Jennifer Dixon

Associate Professor of Political Science, Villanova University

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