Middle Eastern Studies faculty hold appointments in several different departments. Contact information is listed with each professor. Click on a propfessor's name to be taken to their profile page.

Name	Phone (216)	Email	Research Interests
Stephen C. Cory Department of History Associate Professor	216.687.6883		Early Modern Islamic World; Islamic Religion; Modern Middle East; Medieval Europe
Heba El-Attar Department of Modern Languages Assistant Professor	216.523.7174		Peninsular, Arabic and Latin American Literatures.
David R. Elkins Department of Political Science Associate Professor	216.687.4542		Public Policy in Urban Communities, Urban Economic Development, Conflicts and Coalition Building, Taxation Policy.
Tama L. Engelking Interim Director, Middle Eastern Studies - Chair, Department of Modern Languages	216.523.7175		French Women Writers, Early Twentieth-Century Women Writers, Feminist Criticsm, Decadence French and Francophone Film, Francophone Women Writers
Abed el-Rahman Tayyara Department of Modern Languages Assistant Professor	216.687.5138		History of Islam and the Middle East, Islamic Historiography, Classical Arabic Literature, the Transmission of Knowledge from Greek Culture to the Islam, Semitic Languages, and Byzantine History.
Neda A. Zawahri Department of Political Science Assistant Professor	216.687.4544		Conflict and Cooperation between Adversaries, International Institutions, Environmental Security, the Political Economy of Developing Nations, Middle East Politics, and South Asian Politics with focus on India and Pakistan.