Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday 3:15-4:15, Friday  3:30-4:30; and by appointment

B.A. University of Toronto; A.M., Ph.D. University of Minnesota. Special interests in nationalism and literature; Israeli, Palestinian, and Spanish. Began teaching at Carleton in 1999.

Office Hours:  Monday and Wednesday 2:30-3:30; and by appointment

B.A. Tel Aviv University; A.M. & Ph.D Harvard University. Special interests: medieval Arabic literature (adab), music in the medieval Arab world, contemporary Arab music.

Office Hours:  Monday, Wednesday  11:00 am -12:00 pm; and by appointment

B.A. University of Haifa; M.A. University of Texas in Foreign Language Education

Office Hours:  Thursday 4:00-5:00 pm; and by appointment

BA, Stanford University; MA & PhD, University of Washington.  Special interests: Turkish and Ottoman musical cultures and social history; Jews and other minorities of the Ottoman empire and Turkey.