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Prof. Meir Hatina
Jack and Alice Ormut Chair in Arabic Studies
Humanities Building, Room 6309.
Office Hours: Wednesday, 15:00-16:00
Prof. Abigail Jacobson
M.A. Advisor
Academic Director of the MA Honors Program at the Mandel School of Advanced Studies in the Humanities
Prof. Liat Kozma
Department Chair
Harry Friedenwald Chair in History of Medicine
Humanities Building, Room 6715.
Office Hours: Monday, 12:00-13:00
Sivan Lerer
Humanities Building, Room 5216. Office Hours: Monday, 11:00-12:00
Ms. Shiran Levi
Department Administrator
Office: Humanities Building, Room 44406
Office Hours: Sun 11:30-14:30, Mon-Thu 10:00-13:00
Yoav Loeff
Armenian Language Teacher
Has a BA in Armenian Studies and Communications (2000) and an MA (2002) in Comparative Religion from the Hebrew University (2002)
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, 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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Ms. Gal Mizrahi
Department Secretary
Office: Humanities Building, Room 44406
Office Hours: Sun 11:30-14:30, Mon-Thu 10:00-13:00
Benyamin Paknahad
Advanced Persian Teacher
In 2012, I immigrated from Iran. I have an MA in Middle Eastern Studies from Bar-Ilan University. Since 2014, I have been teaching Persian at the Shalem Academic Center.
