Core Faculty
![Eva Bellin](images/people/bellin-eva.jpg)
Expertise: Comparative politics and Middle East politics
![Jonathan Decter](images/people/decter-jonathan.jpg)
Expertise: Jews of the Islamic world, medieval Hebrew literature, medieval Jewish studies, Sephardic studies, medieval Jewish thought
![Carl Sharif El-Tobgui](images/people/el-tobgui-carl-sharif.jpg)
Expertise: Islamic thought, theology, law and jurisprudence; Arabic language (Qur'anic, classical and modern) and classical Arabic literature and poetry
![Shai Feldman](images/people/feldman-shai.jpg)
Expertise: International relations and Middle East politics
![Nader Habibi](images/people/habibi-nader-new.jpg)
Expertise: Economics of the Middle East
![Alexander Kaye](images/people/kaye-alex.jpg)
Expertise: Ancient, medieval and modern Jewish history and European intellectual history, legal and political thought of religious Zionists in the 20th century, relationship between law, religion and politics in Mandate Palestine and Israel
![Pascal Menoret](images/people/menoret-pascal.jpg)
Expertise: Urban anthropology, infrastructure, religion, youth politics, Islamism, Arabian Peninsula Middle East
![Yehudah Mirsky](images/people/mirsky-yehudah.jpg)
Expertise: Jewish thought, Jewish law and ethics, Israeli religion and culture and Zionist intellectual history, political thought and human rights
![Amy Singer](images/people/singer-amy.jpg)
Expertise: Ottoman and Turkish history; charity and philanthropy in Islamic history; agrarian history; Ottoman Jerusalem and Palestine
![Naghmeh Sohrabi](images/people/sohrabi-naghmeh.jpg)
Expertise: Modern Middle East history, modern Iran history, nationalism, historiography, comparative revolutions