Experts Directory: International Affairs and Culture: Middle East
Rachel T. Howes
Department of History
work: (818) 677-2755
email: rthowes@csun.edu
Also speaks: Arabic, French
- Middle East history—pre-modern and modern
- Medieval Egypt, Iran, Iraq and Syria
- Medieval court politics
- General modern political history
Vahram Shemmassian
Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures
Director, Armenian Studies Program
work: (818) 677-3456
email: vahram.shemmassian@csun.edu
Also speaks: Arabic, Armenian, French
- Modern Armenian history
- Armenian culture
- Armenian diaspora
- Survivors of the Armenian genocide
- Armenian education
- Armenian Musa Dagh
- Armenians in the United States, Armenia and the Middle East
- The Armenian press
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Nayereh Tohidi
Department of Gender and Women’s Studies
work: (818) 677-7218
email: nayereh.tohidi@csun.edu
Also speaks: Farsi, Persian, Tajik, Turkic
- Middle Eastern culture
- Middle Eastern politics
- Gender and women’s issues in the Middle East, Central Asia, the Caucus and Caspian regions, Iran and Azerbaijan Republic
- Human rights and democracy
- Islam and Islamist extremism
- Women, religion and politics
- Islam and ethnic issues in Iran
- U.S. policy in Iran and the greater Middle East
- Co-author: “Globalization, Gender and Religion: The Politics of Women’s Rights in Catholic and Muslim Contexts”
- Co-editor: “Women in Muslim Societies: Diversity within Unity”
- Author: “Feminism, Demokrasy ve Islamgarayi dar Iran” (in Persian)
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