People

Tal Grebel

tgrebel@g.harvard.edu

Jewish History and Culture

Subfield: Jewish Studies

A.M. 2019

Zakir Hussein Gul

zakir_gul@g.harvard.edu

Histories and Cultures of Muslim Societies

PhD Candidate

Zakir Hussein Gul is a PhD student in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. He previously studied at the University of Oxford (BA: Arabic and Islamic Studies), the University of Tehran (MA: Persian Literature), and Ankara...

Haci Osman Gündüz (Ozzy)

hgunduz@g.harvard.edu

History and Culture of the Islamic Societies

PhD

My dissertation research focuses on Arabic literature of 16 th-century Bilād al-Shām . My main interest is the literary milieu of Damascus during the first century of Ottoman rule (1516-1600). I am also interested in post-1258 literary history of Arabic...

Dylan Gunn

Histories and Cultures of Muslim Societies

AM Candidate

Muhammad Habib

muhammadhabib@fas.harvard.edu

Preceptor in Arabic

Muhammad Habib was born in Egypt; he was an Assistant Teaching Professor of Arabic at Georgetown University and previously taught at Duke University. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Arabic language and linguistics from Al-Azhar University in Egypt. His...

Mazalit Haim

Senior Preceptor in Modern Hebrew

Mazalit Haim is a scholar of modern Hebrew literature and Israeli culture. Her research explores the politics of hope and despair in modern Jewish and Israeli literature, visual art, museums, and public culture. Drawing on affect theory, psychoanalysis...

David Hannan

Ancient Near Eastern Studies/Hebrew Bible

PhD Candidate

Jay M. Harris

jharris@fas.harvard.edu

Harry Austryn Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies

Harris has been on the Faculty since 1989. He specializes in Modern Jewish Intellectual and Cultural History, teaching courses on modern Jewish religion, law, thought, and culture, primarily in Europe. He also teaches two Gen Ed courses in the Ethics and...

Ryan Hart

Ancient Near Eastern Studies/Assyriology

PhD Candidate

Ryan Hart is a PhD student in Assyriology in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Before entering Harvard, he earned his BA in History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an MA in Middle Eastern Studies (Assyriology) at...