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
Yasemin Akış
Visiting Professor of Religious Studies, Villanova University
Ahmad Al-Sholi
PhD candidate, Stony Brook University
Sa'ed Atshan
Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Anthropology, Swarthmore College Chair of the Department of Anthropology, Swarthmore College
Ibrahim Bakri
Associate Director, Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy
Abdulrahman Bindamnan
Middle East Center Regional Scholar Fellow
Khalid Blankinship
Professor of Religion, Temple University
Jennie Bradbury
Assistant Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College
Megan Brown
Assistant Professor of History, Swarthmore College
Pardis Dabashi
Assistant Professor of Literature, Bryn Mawr College
Lawrence Davidson
Professor Emeritus of History, West Chester University
Arnon Degani
Fellow, Molad: Center for the Renewal of Israeli Democracy
Mert Deniz
Fulbright Scholar, University of Pennsylvania
Sotirios Dimitriadis
Post-doctoral fellow, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Jennifer Dixon
Associate Professor of Political Science, Villanova University
Yasser Elsheshtawy
Adjunct Professor, Columbia University
Noura Erakat
Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Criminal Justice, Rutgers University
Hadar Feldman Samet
Assistant Professor of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University
Alexa Firat
Associate Professor (Instructional) of Arabic Studies, Temple University
Farha Ghannam
Eugene Lang Research Professor of Anthropology, Swarthmore College
Mohannad Ghawanmeh
Executive Director, Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture
Bridget Guarasci
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Franklin & Marshall College
Ezgi Guner
Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor at Haverford College
Bassam Haddad
Director, Middle East and Islamic Studies Program, George Mason University Associate Professor, Policy and Government
David Heayn-Menendez
PhD Candidate in History, CUNY Graduate Center
Ghaidaa Hetou
Lecturer in Political Science, Rutgers University
Shams Inati
Professor of Islamic Philosophy, Villanova University
Lama Kahhal
Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Cincinnati
Artemy Kalinovsky
Professor of History and Political Science, Temple University
Yuval Katz
Postdoctoral fellow, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, Annenberg School for Communication
alma khasawnih
Assistant Professor of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, The College of New Jersey
Ann Lesch
Professor Emerita of Political Science, American University in Cairo
Ikram Masmoudi
Associate Professor of Arabic Language, Literature and Culture, University of Delaware
Nada Matta
Assistant Professor of Global Studies and Sociology, Drexel University
Barak Mendelsohn
Associate Professor of Political Science, Haverford College
Betsy Mesard
Barbieri Scholar in the Humanities, Villanova University
Josh Mugler
Curator of Eastern Christian and Islamic Manuscripts, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
Qais Munhazim
Assistant Professor of Global Studies, Thomas Jefferson University
Emily Neumeier
Assistant Professor of Art History, Temple University
Wazhmah Osman
Assistant Professor of Media Studies and Production, Temple University
Barbara Romaine
Independent Scholar
Mario Ruiz
Associate Professor of Modern Middle East History, Hofstra University
James Ryan
Executive Director of the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP)
Eileen Ryan
Associate Professor of History, Temple University
Zainab Saleh
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Haverford College
Rubina Salikuddin
Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern, Central Asian & North African Studies, Bryn Mawr College
Aytuğ Şaşmaz
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Bryn Mawr College
Matthew Sharp
Independent Scholar
Ahmad Shokr
Assistant Professor of History, Swarthmore College
Deniz Türker Cerda
Assistant Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Rutgers
Sara Vakili
Adjunct Lecturer in Women's and Gender Studies, West Chester University
Gordon Witty
Assistant Professor of Arabic, Temple University
Jake Wumkes
PhD Candidate in Religion, Temple University
Asil Yaman
Adjunct Assistant Professor at Villanova University Director of the Phoenix Archaeological Project (PAP), Consulting Professor at Penn Museum, Mediterranean Section
Sean Yom
Associate Professor of Political Science, Temple University
Eszter Zimanyi
Postdoctoral fellow, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, Annenberg School for Communication
Adnan Zulfiqar
Associate Professor, Rutgers Law School