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David Aberbach
Associate Professor
Department of Jewish Studies
McGill University
3438 McTavish Street, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1X9
Phone: (514) 398-5009
Fax: (514) 398-5158
Email: david.aberbach(at)mcgill.ca
Area(s) of Interest:
• Hebrew language and literature

Malek Abisaab
Assistant Professor
Institute of Islamic Studies
McGill University
3485 McTavish Street, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1Y1
Phone: (514) 398-1541
Fax: (514) 398-6731
Email: malek.abisaab(at)mcgill.ca
Area(s) of Interest:
• modern Middle Eastern history
• labour and gender studies

Rula Abisaab
Assistant Professor
Institute of Islamic Studies
McGill University
3485 McTavish Street, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1Y1
Phone: (514) 398-5322
Fax: (514) 398-6731
Email: rula.abisaab(at)mcgill.ca
Area(s) of Interest:
• Islamic history
• Arabic language

Sajida S. Alvi
Professor
Institute of Islamic Studies
McGill University
3485 McTavish Street, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1Y1
Phone: (514) 398-2587
Fax: (514) 398-6731
Email: sajida.alvi(at)mcgill.ca
Area(s) of Interest:
• Mughal history and historiography
• Indo-Islamic intellectual history and political thought
• Sufism

Rachad Antonius
Professeur
Département de Sociologie
Université du Québec à Montréal
C.P. 8888, Succursale Centre-ville, Montréal, QC, Canada H3C 3P8
Téléphone: (514) 987-3000 poste 2238
Télécopie: (514) 987-4638
Email: antonius.rachad(at)uqam.ca
Domaines de Recherche:
• Méthodes quantitatives
• Ethnicité et racisme
• Sociétés arabes
• Communautés arabes au Québec et au Canada
• Conflicts au Proche-Orient

Julien Bauer
Professeur
Département de science politique
Université du Québec à Montréal
C.P. 8888, Succursale Centre-ville, Montréal, QC, Canada H3C 3P8
Téléphone: (514) 987-3000 poste 4514
Télécopie: (514) 987-0218
Email: bauer.julien(at)uqam.ca
Domaines de Recherche:
• Administration et politiques publiques
• État et minorités
• Politique et religion
• systèmes politiques
• Proche-Orient

Naima Bendriss
Chercheure
Centre de recherche sur l'immigration, l'ethnicité et la citoyenneté (CRIEC)
Université du Québec à Montréal
Téléphone: (514) 731-0894
Email: bendrisn(at)magellan.umontreal.ca
Domaines de Recherche:
• sociologie des études ethniques • communautés arabes du Québec et du Canada • femmes arabes et musulmanes d'Amérique du Nord • rapport Orient/Occident • études post-coloniales

Issa J. Boullata
Professor [post-retirement]
Institute of Islamic Studies
McGill University
3485 McTavish Street, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1Y1
Phone: (514) 398-5010
Fax: (514) 398-6731
Email: issa.boullata(at)mcgill.ca
Area(s) of Interest:
• Modern Arabic poetry
• The Modern Arabic novel
• Modern Qur'an exegesis
• History of Classical Qur'an exegesis
• Contemporary Arab thought

Michael Brecher
Professor
Department of Political Science
McGill University
855 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 2T7
Phone: 514-398-4800
Fax: 514-398-1770
Email: michael.brecher(at)mcgill.ca
Area(s) of interests:
• Theory of crisis, conflict and war; protacted conflicts
• Foreign policy theory and decision-making
• International systems
• Middle East international politics, especially the Arab-Israel conflict and peace process

Patrice Brodeur
Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair on Islam, Pluralism, and Globalization
Université de Montréal
3333 Queen Mary Road, Office 640-22, Montreal, QC H3V 1A2
Phone: 514-343-2164
Fax: 514-343-5738
Email: patrice.brodeur(at)umontreal.ca
Area(s) of interests:
• interfaith dialogue
• religion and democracy

Dominic Parviz Brookshaw
Faculty Lecturer
Institute of Islamic Studies
McGill University
3485 McTavish Street, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1Y1
Phone: (514) 398-2558
Fax: (514) 398-6731
Email: dominic.brookshaw(at)mcgill.ca
Area(s) of Interest:
• Persian language and literature

Rex Brynen
Professor
Department of Political Science
McGill University
855 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 2T7
Phone: (514) 398-5075
Fax: (514) 695-5474
Email: rex.brynen(at)mcgill.ca
Area(s) of interests:
• Arab-Israeli conflict/peace process (with special emphasis on development assistance and refugees)
• Security and development in the Middle East
• Authoritarianism and democratization in the Arab world
• Peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction (Palestine, Iraq)

Eric Caplan
Assistant Professor
Department of Jewish Studies
McGill University
3438 McTavish Street, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1X9
Phone: (514) 398-6544
Email: Eric.Caplan(at)mcgill.ca
Area(s) of Interest:
• Jewish education

Neil Caplan
Professor
Vanier College
821 Ste Croix, Montreal, QC, Canada, H4L3X9
Telephone: (514) 744-7500 ext 7152
Fax:(514) 744-7592
Email: caplann(at)vaniercollege.qc.ca
Area(s) of Interests:
• Arab-Israeli peace negotiations
• Arab-Israeli conflict

Pamela Chrabieh
Researcher, Canada Research Chair of Islam, Pluralism and Globalization
Université de Montréal
Email: : pchrabieh(at)hotmail.com
Area(s) of Interests:
• religious dialogue
• religion and pluralism

Lynda Clarke
Associate Professor
Department of Religion
Concordia University
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd West, Montreal, QC, Canada H3G lM8
TEL: (514) 848-2424, ext. 2066 Email:lclarke@alcor.concordia.ca
Area(s) of Interest:
• Shi'ism
• Islam, gender, and law

Jean Duhaime
Professeur
Département de Science Politique
Université de Montréal
3150 Jean-Brillant, Montréal, QC, Canada H3T 1N8
Téléphone: 343-7261 poste 640-28
Email: jean.duhaime@umontreal.ca
Domaines de Recherché:
• Bible hébraïque (prophètes, psaumes et écrits sapientiaux)
• Judaïsme ancien
• Qumrân

Salwa Ferahian
Lecturer and Librarian
Institute of Islamic Studies
McGill University
3485 McTavish Street, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1Y1
• Islamic bibliographical sources

Leah Fima
Lecturer
Department of Jewish Studies
McGill University
3438 McTavish Street, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1X9
Phone: (514) 398-6026
Email: Lea.Fima(at)mcgill.ca
Area(s) of Interest:
• Hebrew Language & Literature

Carlos Fraenkel
Assistant Professor
Department of Jewish Studies
McGill University
3438 McTavish Street, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1X9
Phone: (514) 398-6267
Email: carlos.fraenkel(at)mcgill.ca
Area(s) of Interest:
• History of Philosophy
• Jewish Thought

Esther Frank
Lecturer
Deparetment of Jewish Studies
McGill University
3438 McTavish Street, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1X9
Phone: (514) 398-6546
Email: esther.frank@mcgill.ca
Area(s) of Interest:
• Yiddish & Jewish Literature

Bina Toledo Freiwald
Professor, Department of English
Director, Humanities Doctoral Program
Concordia University
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montreal, QC,Canada H3G 1M8
Phone: (514) 848 2424 ext 2355 or 2096
Email: bina@alcor.concordia.ca
areas of interest:
• nation, homeland and diaspora in 20th century Jewish writing in Palstine/Israel and Canada

Adam Gacek
Lecturer and Librarian
Institute of Islamic Studies
McGill University
3485 McTavish Street, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1Y1
• Arabic paleography and codiocology

Michel Guay
Professeur
Department d’Histoire
Université du Québec à Montréal
C.P. 8888, Succursale Centre-ville, Montréal, QC, Canada H3C 3P8
Email: guay.michel(at)uqam.ca
Domaines de Recherche:
• Histoire Egyptienne de Pharaon

Henry Habib
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Department of Political Science
Concordia University
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montreal, QC, Canada H3G 1M8
Area(s) of Interests: • Middle East politics

Yael Halevi-Wise
Assistant Professor
Department of Jewish Studies
McGill University
3438 McTavish Street, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1X9
Phone: (514) 398-1013
E-mail: yael.haleviwise(at)mcgill.ca
Area(s) of Interest:
• Studies in the novel
• History and theory of the novel
• Israeli literature and society
• Modern Jewish fiction

Wael B. Hallaq
Professor
Institute of Islamic Studies
McGill University
3485 McTavish Street, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1Y1
Phone: (514) 398-5564
Email: wael.hallaq(at)mcgill.ca
Area(s) of Interest:
• Islamic law and jurisprudence

Will Hanley
Post-doctoral fellow
Department of History
McGill University
855 Sherbrooke Street West, Montréal, QC H3A 2T7
Email: whanley(at)princeton.edu
Area(s) of interest:
•modern Middle Eastern history •Western conversion to Islam

Michelle Hartman
Assistant Professor
Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University
3485 McTavish Street, Montreal, QC, Canada, H3A 1Y1
Phone: (514) 398-5013
Fax: (514) 398-6731
Email: michelle.hartman(at)mcgill.ca
Area(s) of Interest:
• Modern Arabic literature, especially women's literature
• Lebanese literature, religious figures in literature
• French language literature of the Arab world, especially Lebanon
• Representations of Muslim women in culture and literature
• Inter-textual dialogues between religious figures and classical literature in modern Arabic literature

Homa Hoodfar
Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montreal, QC, Canada H3G 1M8
Telephone: (514) 848-2424 ext.2166
Fax: (514) 848-4539
Email: Hoodfar(at)vax2.concordia.ca
Area(s) of Interests:
• Refugee and internally displaced communities in Muslim contexts
• Engendering citizenship in the Muslim world: Iranian women at the intersection of citizenship and family code
• The impact of the codification of Muslim laws on Iranian women

Gershon D. Hundert
Professor
Department of Jewish Studies
McGill University
3438 McTavish Street, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1X9
Phone: (514) 398-6542 / 398-3905
Email: Gershon.Hundert(at)mcgill.ca
Area(s) of Interest:
• Jews in Poland (1000 - 2000)

Wilson Chacko Jacob
Assistant Professor
Department of History
Concordia University
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montreal, QC, Canada H3M 1G8
Phone: (514) 848-2424 x2403
Email: wcjacob(at)alcor.concordia.ca

Norma Joseph
Professor
Concordia University
Department of Religion
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montreal, QC, Canada H3M 1G8
Phone: (514) 848-2065
Fax: (514) 848-4541
Email: Nojo(at)vax2.concordia.ca

Lawrence Kaplan
Associate Professor
Jewish Studies, McGill University 3438 McTavish Street, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1X9 Phone: (514) 398-5008 Email: Lawrence.Kaplan(at)mcgill.ca Area(s) of Interest: • Rabinics, • Jewish law and philosophy

Bahgat Korany
Professeur titulaire [retraité]
Département de Science Politique
Université de Montréal
3150 Jean-Brillant, Montréal, QC, Canada H3T 1N8
Email: koranyb(at)aucegypt.edu
Area(s) of Interest
• Middle East politics
• Foreign policy formation

Marc Lanteigne
Lecturer
Department of Political Science
McGill University
855 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 2T7
Phone: (514) 398-5889 Fax: (514) 695-5474
Email: marc.lanteigne(at)mcgill.ca and melanteigne(at)videotron.ca
Area(s) of interests:
• Central Asian politics and international relations
• Afghanistan
• China

B. Barry Levy
Professor
Department of Jewish Studies
McGill University
3438 McTavish Street, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1X9v Phone: (514) 398-4125
Email: barry.levy(at)mcgill.ca
Area(s) of Interest:
• Bible
• History of Jewish Interpretation of the Bible

Jack Lightstone
Professor
Department of Religion
Concordia University
l455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montreal, QC, Canada H3G lM8
Tel: (514) 848-4892
Fax: (514) 848-8766
Area(s) of Interest:
• Anthropological, Sociological and Historical Study of Early Rabbinic Religion and Literature
• Late Biblical Religion
• Palestinian Judaism in Graeco-Roman Times
• Judaism in Late Antiquity
• Contemporary North American Judaism

Donald P. Little
Professor Emeritus
Institute of Islamic Studies
McGill University
3485 McTavish Street, Montreal QC, Canada H3A 1Y1
Phone: (514) 398-5012
Fax: (514) 398-6731
Email: donald.little@mcgill.ca
Area(s) of Interest:
• Arabic language
• Islamic history and hisoriography

Khalid Mustafa Medani
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
McGill University
855 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 2T7
Phone:
Fax: (514) 398-1770
Email:
Area(s) of interests:
• African and Middle Eastern politics
• Islam and Politics
• Political economy of development; informal economies
• Ethnic and civil conflict

Paul Noble
Professor [post-retirement]
Department of Political Science
McGill University
855 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 2T7
Email: paul.noble(at)mcgill.ca
Area(s) of Interest:
• The Arab Regional System
• Arab Foreign Policies

Michael Oppenheim
Professor
Department of Religion
Concordia University
2060 MacKay Street, Montreal, QC, Canada H3G 2J1
Phone(514) 848-2424, ext. 2067/2065
Email: OPPM(at)VAX2.CONCORDIA.CA
Area(s) of Interest:
• Modern Judaism

Eugene Orenstein
Associate Professor
Depaertment of Jewish Studies
McGill University
3438 McTavish Street, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1X9
Phone: (514) 398-6545
Email: eugene.orenstein(at)mcgill.ca
Area(s) of Interest:
• Jewish History: Modern Eastern European

Laila Parsons
Assistant Professor
Institute of Islamic Studies
McGill University
3485 McTavish Street, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1Y1
Phone: (514) 398-7108
Email: Laila.Parsons(at)McGill.ca
Area(s) of Interest:
• 20th century Middle East history
• Historiography of the Arab-Israeli conflict
• Gender and sexuality in the Middle East

Yakov Rabkin
Professeur titulaire
Département d'histoire
Université de Montréal
C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville , Montréal, QC, Canada H3C 3J7 Canada
Phone :(514) 343-7218 Fax: (514) 343-2483 Email: rabkin(at)hst.umontreal.ca Area(s) of Interest:
• Contemporary Jewish history
• History of science

Ira Robinson
Professor
Department of Religion
Concordia University
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montreal, QC, Canada H3G lM8
Phone: (5l4) 848-2074 [messages at 514-848-2065]
Fax: (514) 848-4541
Email: robinso(at)vax2.concordia.ca; ira.robinson(at)sympatico.ca
Area(s) of Interest:
• Medieval Judaism

Philip Carl Salzman
Professor
Department of Anthropology
McGill University
855 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 2T7
Phone: (514) 398-1278
Email: philip.carl.salzman(at)mcgill.ca
Area(s) of Interest:
• nomadic societies

A. Uner Turgay
Professor
Institute of Islamic Studies
McGill University
3485 McTavish Street, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1Y1
Phone: (514) 398-5011
Email: a.turgay(at)McGill.ca
• Ottoman/Turkish History and Languages
• Modern Developments in Islam
• Central Asia

Harold Waller
Professor
Department of Political Science
McGill University
855 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 2T7
Phone: (514) 398-4806
Email: harold.waller(at)McGill.ca
Area(s) of Interest:
• The U.S. Budgetary Process as a Focal Point of the Struggle Over Public Policy
• American Politics
• Research Methods
• Jewish Political Studies
• Israeli Politics

Stefan Winter
Professeur
Département d'Histoire, Université du Québec à Montréal
C.P. 8888, Succursale Centre-ville, Montréal, QC, Canada H3C 3P8
Téléphone: 514-987-3000 poste 4371
Email: winter.stefan(at)uqam.ca
Web: http://www.proche-orient.uqam.ca
Domaines de Recherche:
• Empire ottoman
• Syrie, Liban, Turquie
• Histoire du chiisme
• tribalisme et nationalisme kurde

Robert Wisnovsky
Associate Professor and Director
Institute of Islamic Studies
McGill University
3485 McTavish Street, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1Y1
Phone: (514) 398-2589
Fax: (514) 398-6731
Email: robert.wisnovsky(at)McGill.ca
• History of Islamic philosophy and theology
• Avicenna

Marie-Joelle Zahar
Professeur adjointe
Département de Science Politique
Université de Montréal
3150 Jean-Brillant, Montréal, QC, Canada H3T 1N8
Phone: (5140 343-6202
Email: marie-joelle.zahar(at)umontreal.ca
Domaines de Recherche:
• Résolution des conflits civils
• Politique de l'aide à la reconstruction
• Problèmes de sécurité au moyen-orient