People

Katia Cytryn

Head of the Department

Senior Lecturer in the Dept. of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies and the Institute of Archaeology

katia.cytryn@mail.huji.ac.il

Archaeology Building, Room 504. Office Hours: Wednesday, 10:00-11:00

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Reuven Amitai

Eliyahu Elath Professor for the History of the Muslim Peoples

Professor in the Dept. of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

+972-2-5883607

reuven.amitai@mail.huji.ac.il

Humanities Building, Room 5134. Office Hours: Tuseday, 15:30-16:30

Personal Website

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Sivan Balslev

Lecturer in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

sivanb@vanleer.org.il

Humanities Building, Room 5307. Office Hours: By e-mail appointment Year two adviser

Personal website

Michal Biran

Max and Sophie Mydans Foundation Professor in the Humanities

Professor in the Dept. of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies and the Dept. of Asian Studies

M.A. advisor, pre-modern studies

+972-2-5883741

biranm@mail.huji.ac.il

Humanities Building, Room 6422. Office Hours: Monday, 11:15-12:15

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Hillel Cohen

Associate Professor in the Dept. of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

hillel.cohen@huji.ac.il

Humanities Building, Room 6337.

Personal Website

Tawfiq Da'adli

Lecturer in the Dept. of Islamic and Middle Studies and the Dept. of Art History

taufik.deadlee@mail.huji.ac.il

Humanities Building, Room 5335. Office Hours: By e-mail appointment

Michael Ebstein

Senior Lecturer in the Dept. of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies and the Dept. of Arabic Language and Literature

michael.ebstein@mail.huji.ac.il

Humanities Building, Room 6419. Office Hours: By e-mail appointment

Ofer Efrati

Senior Teacher of Arabic language in the Dept. of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

Coordinator of Arabic Language Unit

+972-2-5883672

ofer.efrati@mail.huji.ac.il

Humanities Building, Room 6311. Office Hours: Sunday, 9:15-10:00, by e-mail appointment

Prof. Simon Wolfgang Fuchs

Associate Professor in the Dept. of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

simonw.fuchs@mail.huji.ac.il

Open scholar

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Eyal Ginio

Associate Professor in the Dept. of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

Coordinator, Turkish Studies Track and the Forum for Turkish Studies

+972-2-5882874

eyal.ginio@mail.huji.ac.il

Humanities Building, Room 5304. Office Hours: Thursday, 11:00-12:00

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Meir Hatina

Jack and Alice Ormut Chair in Arabic Studies

Professor in the Dept. of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

M.A. advisor

+972-2-5883645

meir.hatina@mail.huji.ac.il

Humanities Building, Room 6309. Office Hours: Wednesday, 15:00-16:00

Abigail Jacobson

Associate Professor in the Dept. of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

02-5883665

abigail.jacobson@mail.huji.ac.il

Room 5308

Personal Website

Liat Kozma

Associate Professor in the Dept. of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

Director, Nehemia Levtzion Center for Islamic Studies

Harry Friedenwald Chair in History of Medicine

+972-2-5883652

liat.kozma@mail.huji.ac.il

Humanities Building, Room 6715. Office Hours: Monday, 12:00-13:00

Personal Website

Sivan Lerer

sivan.lerer@mail.huji.ac.il

Humanities Building, Room 5216. Office Hours: Monday, 11:00-12:00

Yoav Loeff

Adjunct Lecturer and Armenian Language Teacher

yoavloeff@gmail.com

Humanities Building, Room 5317. Office Hours: By e-mail appointment

Has a BA in Armenian Studies and Communications (2000) and an MA (2002) in Comparative Religion from the Hebrew University (2002)

, specializing in Armenian amulet scrolls from the late Middle Ages. Yoav was a member of the team that discovered a medieval Jewish cemetery in Eghegis, Armenia, together with Professor Michael Stone and the late archaeologist David Amit.

After his studies, Yoav began working in human rights organizations and in the field of applied social research, while keeping up his active interest in Armenian culture and literature in less official ways, as well as publishing articles about Armenian topics. Yoav returned to the Hebrew University in 2012, where he now teaches Classical Armenian language and courses in Armenian history and culture.

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