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
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...
Faculty Advisory Committee Member Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Nicholas Boylston is a scholar of classical Persian literature and Persianate Islam. His research focuses on themes of diversity and unity in the writings...
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-...
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