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Professor

Mohammed Abu-Nimer, of the International Peace and Conflict Resolution program, serves as Director of the Peacebuilding and Development Institute. He has conducted interreligious conflict resolution training and interfaith dialogue workshops in confl... [More]

Professor

Ambassador Akbar Ahmed is the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University in Washington, D.C. and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is a Visiting Professor and was First Distinguished Chair of Middle East & Is... [More]

Assistant Professor

Dr. Boaz Atzili is a political scientist who researches and teaches international politics. His interest is in international security with an emphasis on territorial conflicts and the politics of borders, and the international aspects of state weakne... [More]

Adjunct Professorial Lecturer

Assistant Professor

Kristin Smith Diwan is Assistant Professor of Comparative and Regional Studies at the American University School of International Service. She holds regional expertise in the politics and policies of the Arab Gulf, and functional expertise on Islamic... [More]

Assistant Professor

Deen Freelon is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies. His substantive area of expertise is political communication, especially as it relates to citizen expression via digital technologies. He also has a strong interest in the use of computer ... [More]

Assistant Professor

Research: Hachad’s research interests include questions of language, diasporic identities, and representations of the body in Francophone literature and visual arts of the Maghreb and the Caribbean; Postcolonial theory

Assistant Professor

Dr. Loubna Skalli-Hanna is Assistant Professor in the International Development Program. She joined the American University in 2004 after teaching for 15 years at Moroccan Universities and Higher Institutes of Leaning (1987-2003). Dr. Skalli-Hanna’s ... [More]

Professorial Lecturer

Mohamed Alaa Abdel-Moneim, PhD, obtained a BSc in Political Science from the Faculty of Economics and Political Science (FEPS), Cairo University – Egypt. He was appointed as a Teaching Assistant in the FEPS Department of Public Administration in 2001... [More]

Assistant Professor

Lynn Kunkle is an assistant professor of International Peace and Conflict Resolution with interests in religion, culture, U.S. foreign policy, Islam and Western relations and the Middle East. She is an expert of interfaith dialogue and has traveled a... [More]

Assistant Professor

Shadi Mokhtari specializes in human rights, Middle East Politics and Political Islam. She has an extensive background in human rights and women’s rights issues in the Middle East and Muslim World. She is the Editor in Chief of the Muslim World Journa... [More]

Executive in Residence

Professor Nakshbendi teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in project finance, microfinance, export-import management, international business and the global marketplace. He has extensive international business experience. His early career in aca... [More]

Assistant Professor

Dr. Nimer teaches the Washington Semester Islam and World Affairs Program. He is author of The North American Muslim Resource Guide: Muslim Community Life in the United States and Canada (Routledge, 2002). His recent writings include Americanizing Is... [More]

Professorial Lecturer

Martyn was born and raised in southern Minnesota. In addition to Washington State and Boston, his studies also took him to Scotland, Lebanon, Austria, and Morocco. His work explores the construction of religious identity, particularly how Western lit... [More]

Distinguished Diplomat in Residence

Ambassador Anthony Quainton is the Diplomat-in-Residence and a professor of U.S. Foreign Policy, having previously served in the United States Foreign Service and held ambassadorships to the Central African Republic, Nicaragua, Kuwait, and Peru.

Professor

Dr. Said is the senior ranking professor at American University and the first occupant of the endowed Mohammed Said Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace. He founded the university-wide Center for Global Peace, which undertakes a range of activities, both on ... [More]

Associate Professor

Cathy Lisa Schneider writes and teaches on social movements, political violence, criminal justice, race, ethnicity and immigration in Europe, the United States, and Latin America. Her publications include, among others, the books Shantytown Protest i... [More]

Scholar in Residence

Associate Professor

Dr. Singerman is an Associate Professor and comparativist whose research interests focus on political change from below, particularly in the Middle East, and more specifically Egypt. Her work examines the formal and informal side of politics, gender,... [More]

Professor

Professor Willoughby has recently returned from a two-year stay in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates where he helped create an undergraduate economics program at the new American University of Sharjah. He has also taught at the American University in Cai... [More]