Dr. Amireh received a BA in English literature from Birzeit University in the West Bank and an MA and a PhD in English and American literature from Boston University. Before joining George Mason University, Amireh taught at An-Najah National University and Birzeit University (both in West Bank/Palest...
Explores the intersection of sport history and film and how feature movies, documentaries, shorts, and newsreels can be used to study U.S. history as well as global history. Among the subjects examined are sport and early filmmaking; global issues of race, class, ethnicity, gender, doping, and identi...
Heba El-Shazli is Assistant Professor at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on International Relations Theory, Politics, Government and Society of the Middle East, and Political Islam. She holds a Ph.D. in Government an...
Leslie Dwyer is a cultural anthropologist whose work focuses on issues of violence, gender, post-conflict social life, transitional justice, the politics of memory and identity, critical medical and psychological approaches to social suffering, and globalizing discourses of human rights, social activ...
Susan F. Hirsch, a cultural anthropologist, is a Professor in the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (S-CAR) at George Mason University and Chair of S-CAR’s Faculty Board. From 2009 to present, she has been affiliated in Mason’s Women and Gender Studies Program. Professor Hirsch is the Princ...
Cortney Hughes Rinker is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Director of the Global Affairs program. She earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Irvine with emphases in Feminist Studies and Medicine, Science, and Technology Studies. ...
Dr. Dakake researches and publishes on Islamic intellectual history, Quranic studies, Shi`ite and Sufi traditions, and women's spirituality and religious experience. She is one of the general editors and contributing authors of the The Study Quran (HarperOne, 2015), which comprises a translation and ...
Spring 2017 HIST 535: Problems in Comparative World History (3 Credits) HIST 575: Approaches to Middle East and Islamic History (3 Credits) RELI 591: Special Topics in Religious Studies (3 Credits) HIST 610: The Study and Writing of History (3 Credits) ANTH 650: Methods in Anthropology (3 Credit...
What Next? States, Conflicts, and Policy in the Middle East A One-Day Symposium Wednesday, 2 May, 12 pm - 5 pm Founders Hall 113, Mason Square Campus [Event streamed to Fairfax Campus Via JC 3rd Floor, Room G] GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY Limited Space Register/RSVP here meis@gmu.ed...
Spring 2023 Core Courses for the Minor GOVT 332: Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa Elective Course Options for the Minor* ARAB 325: Major Arabic Writers ARAB 331: Reading and Conversation II ARTH 333: Early Christian and Byzantine Art CONF 340: Global Conflict A...
