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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 and was a Middle East Report Editor's Pick. 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. In the spring of 08 he was a Fulbright Scholar to Egypt where
he started a project on the late Egyptian actor Ahmad Zaki. He
will be attending a weeklong literary translation workshop at the British
Council in Cairo
at the end of this January. Publications
(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 published by Brill. Professor Elinson has
published articles, reviews and translations on the Arabic and Hebrew
strophic poem (zajal
and muwashshah), rhymed prose narrative (maqama), and modern Arabic poetry and narrative
in numerous peer-reviewed journals. In the spring 2010 semester he will be
on leave in Morocco as a
Fulbright scholar conducting research on the fourteenth century government
functionary and writer from Granada,
Lisan al-Din ibn al-Khatib. Publications
(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 from UCLA (2005). He has taught
Arabic at all levels at many colleges and universities, including the University of Pennsylvania,
UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, and the University
of Utah. His research
interests include linguistic and religious thought in the classical period,
and he is the author of Language and Heresy in Ismaili
Thought: The Kitab al-Zina
of Abu Hatim al-Razi
(Gorgias Press 2009), which is about 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 in collaboration with Kamal AlEkhnawy of the Arabic Language Institute at the American University
in Cairo to
write a reference on idiomatic expressions in colloquial Egyptian Arabic
aimed at advanced students of spoken Egyptian (forthcoming from AUC Press).
Publications
(PDF).
Office: 1430 Hunter West
Phone: (212) 772-4050
E-mail: jamal.ali@hunter.cuny.edu
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