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Faculty
 Christopher
Stone, Associate Professor of
Arabic and Head of the Arabic Program, received his M.A. (1995) and Ph.D.
(2002) in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University
where he specialized in Arabic language, literature and culture. His
Master's thesis was on the novels of the contemporary Egyptian writer Sonallah Ibrahim, and his
doctoral work focused on modern Lebanese musical theater and its
relationship to nationalism. His
dissertation received the Malcolm Kerr Dissertation Award for the
Humanities from the Middle East Studies Association in 2003, and the book
based on it --
Popular Culture and Nationalism in
Lebanon: Fairouz
and the Rahbani Nation -- was published by Routledge
in 2007. In addition to Hunter,
Christopher has taught at Middlebury
College, Williams
College, and Emory University.
He has also served as the Assistant Director of Middlebury's summer Arabic School and on the Executive Board of
the American Association of Teachers of Arabic. He has spent more than 5 years living,
traveling, working, studying and conducting research in the Arab
World. Most recently he was a
Fulbright Scholar to Egypt
in the spring of 08 where he started a project on the late Egyptian actor
Ahmad Zaki.
Download
CV (PDF).
Office: 1303 Hunter West
Phone: 212-650-3138
E-mail: cst@hunter.cuny.edu
 Alexander Elinson, Assistant
Professor of Arabic Language and Literature and Director of the Hunter
College Summer Arabic Program, received his M.A. (1998) from the University of Washington
in Seattle, and Ph.D. (2004) in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures from Columbia University. His research interests
cut across the Middle East and North Africa,
and include Arabic and Hebrew literature from the pre-Islamic to the modern
period. His book entitled Looking Back at al-Andalus:
the poetics of loss and nostalgia in medieval Arabic and Hebrew Literature
is forthcoming from Brill.
Professor Elinson has published articles,
reviews and translations on the Arabic and Hebrew strophic poem (muwashshah), rhymed prose narrative (maqama), and modern Arabic poetry and narrative
in Edebiyât, the Journal of Arabic
Literature, the Journal of North African Studies, Medieval Encounters,
Middle Eastern Literatures, The Middle East Studies Association Bulletin,
Paintbrush: a Journal of Poetry and Translation, Words Without Borders,
Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia, and the Encyclopedia
of Women & Islamic Cultures.
Download
CV (PDF).
Office:
1304 Hunter West
Phone:
(212) 772-5044
E-mail:
aelinson@hunter.cuny.edu
 Jamal
Ali, Distinguished
Lecturer of Arabic, holds a Ph.D. in Arabic Literature from UCLA (2005). He
recently taught Arabic for four years at the University
of Pennsylvania, and has taught
Arabic at all levels at many other colleges and universities, including
UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, and the University
of Utah. His research
interests include linguistic and religious thought in the classical period,
and his forthcoming book from Gorgias Press, Language and Heresy in Ismaili Thought: The Kitab
al-Zina of Abu Hatim
al-Razi, is on 10th century Arabic linguistics, grammar, and
lexicography, and examines an unpublished glossary authored by the Ismaili preacher Abu-Hatim
al-Razi. Dr. Ali has lived and studied in the Middle East extensively, including having received
the CASA (Center for Arabic Study Abroad) fellowship, as well as the CASA
III fellowship twice. He is currently working on a textbook on idioms in
colloquial Egyptian Arabic aimed at advanced students of spoken Egyptian
Arabic in collaboration with Kamal Alekhnawy of the Arabic Language Institute at the American University
in Cairo. Download
CV (PDF).
Office: 1430 Hunter West
Phone: (212) 772-4050
E-mail: jamal.ali@hunter.cuny.edu
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