Egypt

Steven Abrams

Nutritional Science, Medicine

Steven Abrams' research focuses on the use of stable isotopes to determine mineral requirements and physiological turnover rates in infants and children. This includes mass spectrometric methods and analytical approaches allowing populations throughout the world to obtain critical data needed for food fortification strategies to be effective.

Kamran Scot Aghaie

Middle Eastern Studies

Kamran Aghaie’s research centers around Islamic studies, Shi’ism, and modern Iranian and Middle Eastern history. In addition to this, Aghaie is also interested in world history, gender studies, nationalism, historiography, economic history, Persian, and Arabic.

Olla Al-Shalchi

Middle Eastern Studies

Olla Al-Shalchi’s research interests include language pedagogy, the use of technology in the classroom, material development, learning strategies, and the cognitive load effect on learners with varying knowledge backgrounds.

Kamran Ali

Anthropology, Asian Studies, Middle Eastern Studies

Kamran Ali's research centers on issues of health, gender, and urban issues in Egypt, and on ethnicity, class politics, urban space, cinema, sexuality and popular culture in Pakistan.

Samy Ayoub

Middle Eastern Studies, Law

Samy Ayoub specializes in Islamic law, modern Middle East law, and law and religion in contemporary Muslim societies. He focuses on issues concerning law, its interaction with religion, and the role of religion in contemporary legal and socio-political systems within a global comparative perspective.

Hina Azam

Middle Eastern Studies

Hina Azam's research focuses on women, gender, and sexuality in Islam, ethics, and pedagogy.

John Bartholomew

Kinesiology and Health Education

John Bartholomew researches the effect of exercise on mental health to improve mood and reduce stress.

Jason Brownlee

Government

Jason Brownlee researches and teaches about the comparative politics of democracy and development. Brownlee is specifically studying democracy and development challenges in developing and OECD countries.

Andrew Butters

Journalism and Media

Andrew Butters is a journalist who has written extensively about the Middle East.

Dale Correa

History, Middle Eastern Studies, Religious Studies

Dale Correa specializes in Islamic legal theory, theology, philosophy, and Qur'anic studies, with an interest in the intellectual tradition of the eastern regions of the Islamicate empire.

Yoav Di-Capua

History

Yoav Di-Capua is an intellectual historian of the modern Arab world. His work examines the question of how to find an authentic, safe and productive space in the a modern world shaped by others and he takes into consideration various lens, including decolonization studies, trauma studies, political theory and other related fields.

Rasha Diab

English, Middle Eastern Studies, Rhetoric and Writing

Rasha Diab's research interests include rhetorical theory, history and criticism, focusing on on reconciliation and peacemaking, particularly related to Arab-Islamic reconciliation. Her research and teaching interests also include comparative and cross-cultural rhetoric, transnational rhetoric, composition studies and pedagogy, critical discourse analysis, and translingual writing.

Emily Drumsta

Middle Eastern Studies, French and Italian

Emily Drumsta's interests include Arabic, Francophone literatures, comparative literature, and translation. She specializes in modern Arabic and Francophone literatures, exploring the history of detection and investigation in 20th-century Arabic fiction.

Manish Kumar

Chemical Engineering, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Manish Kumar's research group is interested in mimicking biological processes and materials at the molecular scale, particularly cell membrane components, to develop materials and processes that bring the specificity and functionality of biological molecules and processes to engineering scales.

Vijay Mahajan

Marketing

Vijay Mahajan's areas of expertise include marketing strategy, product diffusion, research methodology and the Global South.

Stephennie Mulder

Middle Eastern Studies, Art and Art History

Stephennie Mulder is a specialist in Islamic art, architectural history, and archaeology. Her research interests include the art and architecture of Shi’ism, the intersections between art, spatiality, and sectarian relationships in Islam, anthropological theories of art, material culture studies, theories of ornament and mimesis, and place and landscape studies.

Heath Prince

Public Affairs

Heath Prince is a research scientist and has written, published, and presented extensively on domestic and international employment, training programs and policies, post-secondary education, and poverty reduction.

Maarten Rotman

Medical Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Maarten Rotman, Ph.D., earned degrees in life science and technology from Leiden University and TU Delft in the Netherlands, and a Ph.D. in Alzheimer's research. At Mayo Clinic, he led studies on neurodegeneration and glioblastoma, taught Lean Startup in life sciences, and advised ventures. He also engaged in guest lectureship and publication work with Nile University in Egypt.

Daniel Stockli

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Daniel Stockli's research focuses on the application of thermochronology and geochronology to tectonic and geological problems to better understand the temporal and thermal aspects of tectonic, petrologic, stratigraphic, and geomorphologic processes. In addition, he investigates geo- and thermochronometry technique development, calibration, and bench marking, with special emphasis on development of new thermochronmeters and novel applications.

Ahmed Tewfik

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Ahmed Tewfik's research interests are in man–machine symbiosis, brain computing interfaces and applied machine learning.

Levi Thompson

Middle Eastern Studies

Levi Thompson's research focuses on modernist literary developments outside of Europe, and he writes on the subject of modernism in Arabic and Persian poetry.

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