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Arts & Humanities
Muhamed Osman Al-Khalil
Director of Arabic Studies, Clinical Associate Professor of Arabic Language
General Specialities: Image of America in recent Arabic Literature; Arabic Language; Modern Arabic literature; Arabic Biography
Omima El Araby
Arabic Language Instructor
General Specialities: Arabic language pedagogy; second language acquisition
Reindert Falkenburg
Vice Provost for Intellectual and Cultural Outreach, Faculty Director of the Institute
General Specialities: Arts and humanities; museum studies
Dale Hudson
Faculty Fellow
General Specialities: Transnational, postcolonial, and global cinemas; new media and digital theory; French and Francophone (especially North and West African) film and film history; South Asian (especially Bollywood) film and film history; North American (including Hollywood) film and film history; environmentalism and film; classical, comtemporary, and "nonwestern" film theory; histories and theories of nationalism, immigration, assimilation, racialization, and globalization
Khulood Kittaneh
Arabic Language Instructor
General Specialities: Arabic language and culture; interfaith dialogue
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Sheetal Majithia
Assistant Professor of Literature
General Specialities: Literature; globalization; India
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Lauren Minsky
Assistant Professor of History
General Specialities: Environment; public health; medicine; South Asia; Indian Ocean; world history
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Wolfgang Neuber
Visiting Professor of Literature
General Specialities: World literature
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Rubén Polendo
Associate Professor of Theater
General Specialities: Theater Program at NYUAD; Theater Mitu
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Yasser Tabbaa
Visiting Professor of Art History
General Specialities: Arab/Islamic culture and history; visual arts (traditional and contemporary); Islam, in particular Shi'ism, Syria, and Jordan
UAE or Region-Specific Specialities: Modern and contemporary Arab art; culture policy; Shi'ism
Shamoon Zamir
Associate Professor of Literature and Visual Studies
General Specialities: Photography; American literature and culture
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Science & Engineering
Joel Bernstein
Professor of Chemistry
General Specialities: Pharmaceutical patent litigations; teaching
John Burt
Assistant Professor of Practice of Biology
General Specialities: Marine environment; Persian Gulf environment; ecology
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Alexandra Dimitri
Assistant Professor of Practice of Biology
General Specialities: Structural biology and computer modeling; drug design; women in science; Middle East and science
Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
Visiting Professor of Electrical Engineering
General Specialities: Multimedia; Haptics (the sense of touch and its transmission over the Internet)
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PJ Henry
Associate Professor of Psychology
General Specialities: Prejudice
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Ramesh Jagannathan
Professor of Practice of Chemical Engineering
General Specialities: Nanotechnogy; innovation; technology transfer; university/industry relationship
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Wael M. Rabeh
Assistant Professor of Practice of Chemistry
General Specialities: Drug discovery and drug design; cancer; diabetes; protein
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Social Sciences
Chetan Dave
Assistant Professor of Economics
General Specialities: Macroeconomic growth; business cycles; finance
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Defne Ezgi
Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science
General Specialities: Ethnic politics; secession; representative politics
Yaw Nyarko
Professor of Economics
General Specialities: Social inequality; ethnic conflict; political economy; politics in the European Union
Ivan Szelenyi
Dean of Social Sciences
General Specialities: Economic development, particularly in Africa; human capital and skilled workers; technology and economic development
UAE or Region-Specific Specialities: UAE trade with Africa
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