Faculty

Below is an alphabetical list of MELC faculty. You can also browse the faculty by research area.

Faculty

Azza Ahmad

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Arabic & Islamic Studies

Wali Ahmadi

Professor of Persian Literature

Asad Q. Ahmed

Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

Adam Benkato

Associate Professor, Bita Daryabari Presidential Chair in Iranian Studies

Yonatan Binyam

Assistant Professor of Ancient Mediterranean & Ethiopic Studies

Ahmad Diab

Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature and Middle Eastern Cinema

Nora Jacobsen Ben Hammed

Assistant Professor of Islamic Thought

Margaret Larkin

Professor of Arabic Literature

Rita Lucarelli

Associate Professor of Egyptology, Class of 1939 Chair in Undergraduate Education

Maria Mavroudi

Professor (History)

Nasser Meerkhan

Assistant Professor of Spanish and Arabic Literature

Christine Philliou

Professor of History, MELC Department Chair

Benjamin W. Porter

Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Archaeology

Carol Redmount

Associate Professor of Egyptology

Niek Veldhuis

Professor of Sumerian

Lecturers

Hatem Bazian

Lecturer in Arabic

Amel Belguith

Lecturer in Arabic

Elsa Elmahdy

Lecturer in Arabic, Arabic Language Program Coordinator

Reza Ghahramani

Lecturer in Persian

Jenna Kemp

Lecturer in Hebrew Bible

Nathalie Khankan

Lecturer in Arabic

Sanjyot Mehendale

Lecturer in Central Asian Archaeology

Haitham Mohamed

Lecturer in Arabic

Fateme Delia Montazeri

Lecturer in Persian

Laurie Pearce

Lecturer in Assyriology

Barbara Richter

Lecturer in Egyptology

Jason Vivrette

Lecturer in Turkish

Below is a list of UC Berkeley faculty that affiliate with the MELC Department:

Diliana Angelova, History

Peter Bartu, Program in Global Studies

Samera Esmeir, Rhetoric

Munis Faruqui, South and Southeast Asian Studies

Keith Feldman, Ethnic Studies

Emily Gottreich, History & Program in Global Studies

Bruce Hall, History

Todd Hickey, Ancient Greek and Roman Studies & Center for the Tebtunis Papyri

Ethan Katz, History

Anneka Lenssen, History of Art

Lisa Maher, Anthropology

Ussama Makdisi, History

Minoo Moallem, Gender and Women's Studies

Stefania Pandolfo, Anthropology

Christine Philliou, History

Soraya Tlatli, French

Cihan Tugal, Sociology