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About Me

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I am an assistant professor in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University, a cultural and intellectual historian of the premodern Middle East, and an Arabist.

My teaching at Georgetown furthers our humanistic understanding of the region, the formative period of Islam, and the rich heritage of the Arabic language, past and present.

I have taught at the University of Chicago, Harvard University, UNC Chapel Hill, and El Colegio de Mexico, and I also give talks about Arabic cultural heritage.

Teaching at Georgetown:

Literature: Readings Around the Arab World

History: Syria: Politics and Identities

Philosophy: God, Nature, and Society

I also run "Theology in Arabic" Seminars, celebrating Arabic as a global language of religious expression, shedding light on key chapters in intellectual history and the formation of traditions.