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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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