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Payam Mohseni

Payam Mohseni

Project Director. Lecturer, Department of Government, Harvard University; Lecturer, Islamic Studies, Harvard Divinity School.

Research interests: Comparative politics and international relations of the Middle East and North Africa; hybrid regimes; Iranian state and society; Islam and politics; political economy; civil society; and democratization.... Read more about Payam Mohseni

Harvard Divinity School
45 Francis Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: 617.496.8271
Office Hours: By Appointment
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Ali Asani

Faculty Director. Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies; and, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Harvard University

Born in Nairobi, Kenya, Ali Asani is Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and...

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Diana Eck

Affiliate Scholar. Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society, Harvard University

Diana Eck's academic work has a dual focus—India and America—and in both cases she is interested in the challenges of religious pluralism in a multi-...

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Barker Center 307
12 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: p: 617-495-2099
Office Hours: By Appointment
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Mohammad Sagha

Faculty Advisory Committee Member
Lecturer in the Modern Middle East, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Research Interests: History of sectarianism in Islam, Islamic social and political history, early Islam and late antique Near East, social network theory,  transnational connections in Arab and Persianate worlds, sectarian identity in the modern Middle East.... Read more about Mohammad Sagha