Faculty
Majid Al-khalili, Department of Politics and International Relations
Teaching and Research: Political Theory, International Relations of the Middle East, Persian Gulf Studies, Oman’s Foreign Policy
Email: Majid.Al-Khalili@fiu.edu
Daniel Alvarez, Department of Religious Studies
Teaching and Research: Protestant Theology, Reformation, Evangelicalism, World Religions
Email: Daniel.Alvarez@fiu.edu
Cyra Akila Choudhury, College of Law
Teaching and Research: Postcolonial Theory, Critical Theory, International Law, and Law in Islamic Societies
Email: Cyra.Choudhury@fiu.edu
Marsha B. Cohen, Department of Politics and International Relations
Teaching and Research: Comparative study of religious and cultural issues in Iran and Israel; influence of religion and culture on foreign policy; Iranian cinema; historiography of the Jews of Iran; gender in Judaism and Islam
Email: marsha.cohen@fiu.edu
Peter Craumer, Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies
Teaching and Research: Economic and Social Geography, Rural Geography &Population Change in Central Asia and former Soviet Union
Email: Peter.Craumer@fiu.edu
Shlomi Dinar, Department of Politics and International Relations
Teaching and Research: Environmental Politics, Negotiation, and Conflict Resolution in the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia
Email: Shlomi.Dinar@fiu.edu
Eric Lob, Department of Politics and International Relations
Teaching and Research: Comparative Politics of the Middle East, IR of the Middle East, Iran, Social Movements and Revolutions.
Email: elob@fiu.edu
Maria del Mar Logrono-Narbona, Department of History
Teaching and Research: Modern Middle East, Middle East-Latin America relations, Syria, Jordan, and women and gender issues in the Middle East
Email: mlogrono@fiu.edu
Russell Lucas, Department of Politics and International Relations
Teaching and Research: Middle Eastern Politics, Comparative Arab Monarchies, Democratization, Arab-Israeli Conflict
Email: lucasr@fiu.edu
Charles MacDonald, Department of Politics and International Relations
Teaching and Research: International Relations of the Middle East, International Law, Middle East Ethnicity, Territorial Disputes, and Kurdish Studies
Email: Charles.Macdonald@fiu.edu
Aisha Musa, Department of Religious Studies
Teaching and Research: Islam, Gender and Islam , Hadith and Classical Arabic Studies
Email: Aisha.Musa@fiu.edu
Benjamin Smith, Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies
Teaching and Research: Persian Gulf Oil Monarchies (UAE), Economic and Cultural Geography, Social Theory, and Geographies of the Middle East
Email: Benjamin.Smith1@fiu.edu
Camelia Suleiman, Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies
Teaching and Research: Linguistics, Arab and Palestinian Culture and Society
Email: Camelia.Suleiman@fiu.edu
