Andrew Abalahin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Phone: (619) 594-6999
Email: abalahin@mail.sdsu.edu
Office: AL-515
Homepage: Andrew Abalahin
Areas of Specialization: Late colonial Indonesia and the Philippines; colonialism and nationalism; the role of Islam in societies of Southeast and East Asia.

Farid Abdel-Nour, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Faculty Coordinator, CIAS
Phone: (619) 594-6598
Email: abdelnou@mail.sdsu.edu
Office: NH-122
Homepage: Farid Abdel-Nour
Areas of Specialization: Political theory and Middle East politics; the cultural gulf seperating Western from Arab-Muslim sociaties.

Huma Ahmed-Ghosh, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Women's Studies
Phone: (619) 594-3046
Email: ghosh@mail.sdsu.edu
Office: AL-315
Homepage: Huma Ahmed-Ghosh
Areas of Specialization: Islam and Feminism; coping stratigies of immigrant Muslim women in Southern California; gendered violence in conflict zones; status of women in Afghanistan.

Sandra Campbell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Phone: 619-594-2812
Email: sandscamp@gmail.com
Office: AL-525
Areas of Specialization:  Early Islamic history; Islamic historical memory; apocalypticism; orality, literacy and the historiography of early Islam.

Ross E. Dunn, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of History
Phone: (619) 594-6391
Email: dunn@mail.sdsu.edu
Office: AL-511
Homepage: Ross Dunn
Areas of Specialization: African, Islamic and World History; author of the best selling book "The Adventures of Ibn Battuta, a Muslim Traveler of 14th Century," which has been translated into Italian, Turkish, and Indonesian.

Hisham Foad, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
Phone: 594-8495
Email: hfoad@mail.sdsu.edu
Office: NH-325
Homepage: Hisham Foad
Areas of Specialization: International finance; the economics of currency unions; economic integration and foreign investment in the Middle East and North Africa.

Ahmet Kuru, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Phone: 619-594-8643
Email: akuru@mail.sdsu.edu
Office:NH-107
Areas of Specialization:  Religion and politics; Middle East politics.

Khaleel Mohammed, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies
Phone: (619) 594-3108
Email: khaleel@mail.sdsu.edu
Office: AL 674
Areas of Specialization: Exegesis; hadith; Islamic law; Christian-Jewish-Muslim encounters; extremist movements.

Ghada Osman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics and Oriental Languages
CIAS Director and Undergraduate Advisor
Phone: (619) 594-7137
Email: gosman@mail.sdsu.edu
Office: AL-378/ BA-308A
Homepage: Arabic
Areas of Specialization: Classical Arabic and Islam; Arabic and Islam in the United States.

Said Farisi, MSA
Assistant Professor, School of Art, Design and Art History
Phone: 619-594-1217
Email: sfarisi@mail.sdsu.edu
Office: Art N
Homepage: Said Farisi 
Areas of Specialization: Visual and verbal communications, including cross-cultural projects and teaching methodologies; tazhib; calligraphy 

David Christian, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of History
Phone: (619) 594-2821
Email: dgchrist@mail.sdsu.edu
Office: AL 567
Homepage: David Christian

Anne Donadey, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, European Studies
Phone: (619) 594-0815
Email: adonadey@mail.sdsu.edu
Office: BA 308
Homepage: Anne Donadey

Mary Ann Lyman-Hager, Ph.D.
Professor of French and European Studies
Director, Language Acquisition Resources Center
Phone: (619) 594-5480
Email: mlymanha@mail.sdsu.edu
Office: BAM-426
Homepage: Mary Ann Lyman-Hager

Farid Mahdavi, Ph.D
Lecturer, Department of History
Phone: (619) 594-2210
Email: mahdavi@mail.sdsu.edu
Office: AL 559
Homepage: Farid Mahdavi

Samy Swayd, Ph.D.
Director of the Institute of Druze Studies
Professor, Department of Religious Studies
Phone: (619) 594-1880
Email: sswayd@mail.sdsu.edu
Office: AL 636
Homepage: 

Hanada Taha-Thomure, Ph.D.
Lecturer,
Phone: 594-8800
Office: BA 418A

John R. Weeks, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Geography
Director of International Population Center
Phone: (619) 594-8040
Email: jrweeks@mail.sdsu.edu
Office: AL 519
Homepage: John R. Weeks

Ghassan Zakaria
Lecturer, 
Office: BA 337E

Elsie Begler, Ph.D.
Director, International Studies Education Project (ISTEP)
College of Arts and Letters
Phone: (619) 594-8748
Email: begler@mail.sdsu.edu
Office: SH-146

Alex Melton
Undergraduate Student, Program in International Security and Conflict Resolution
Email: cias@rohan.sdsu.edu