Middle Eastern/North African [MENA]
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** = Highest Degree is B.A. [A] Asian [B] Black [I] Indigenous/Native [L/H] Latina/o/Hispanic [LGBTQ+] Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer [M] Man [MENA] Middle Eastern/North African [MR] Multi-Racial [NC] Not a Citizen of an Anglophone Country [OG] Other gender [OR] Other Non-White Race [O] Other Non-White Self-Identification [P] Pacific Islander [D] Person with a Disability [W] Woman |
Name | Position | Organization | Location | Area of Specialization | Self-Identification | Research |
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Al-Hasani, Nadim | D.Phil Researcher | University of Oxford | Oxford, Oxfordshire England |
Arabic Philosophy, Epistemology, Philosophy of Law, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Religion | [MENA] Arab Muslim | Metaphysics, Islamic Philosophy |
Ali, Rami | Assistant Professor | Lebanese American University | Beirut, Lebanon |
Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind | [MENA] | Perception, Hallucinations, Theory of Mind/Mind Reading, Emmanuel Levinas, Video Games |
Almotahari, Mahrad | Assistant Professor | University of Illinois at Chicago | Chicago, Illinois United States |
Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language | [M] [MENA] | |
Al-Saji, Alia | Associate Professor of Philosophy | McGill University | Montreal, Quebec Canada |
19th & 20th Century Philosophy, Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, European Philosophy, Existentialism, Feminist Philosophy, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Gender, Philosophy of Race, Post-Structuralism, Social and Political Philos | [W] [OR] [O] [MENA] | Time, Embodiment, Memory, Intersubjectivity, Feminism, Race/Ethnicity, Anti-Racism |
Bar On, Bat-Ami | Professor | Binghamton University (SUNY) | Binghamton, New York United States |
Social and Political Philosophy | [W] [LGBTQ+] [MENA] [NC] Isreal | Armed Political Conflict, Refugees, Arendt |
Budron, Robert | Graduate Student | Loyola University Chicago | Chicago, Illinois United States |
19th & 20th Century Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Existentialism, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Law, Philosophy of Race, Philosophy of Religion, Social and Political Philosophy | [L/H] [M] [MENA] Mexican | |
Burke, Teresa Blankmeyer | Assistant Professor | Gallaudet University | Washington, DC United States |
Applied Ethics, Bioethics/Medical Ethics, Ethics, Feminist Philosophy, GRIDS+, Meta-Ethics, Normative Ethics, Philosophy of Disability | [MENA] [MR] [D] [W] Deaf | |
Charlow, Nate | Assistant Professor | University of Toronto | Toronto, Ontario Canada |
Logic and Philosophy of Logic, Meta-Ethics, Philosophy of Language | [MENA] Iranian | Formal Semantics, Philosophical Logic, Philosophical Linguistics, Conditionals, Modals, Expressivism |
Coronado, Amena | Assistant Professor | Community College of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United States |
19th & 20th Century Philosophy, Ancient Greek and Roman, Continental Philosophy, Ethics, European Philosophy, Existentialism, History of Philosophy | [L/H] [MENA] [W] | |
Erkal, Merve | Graduate Student | University at Albany, SUNY | Albany, NY |
Ancient Greek and Roman, Social and Political Philosophy | [MENA] [NC] [W] Turkish | |
Hanna, Nathan | Associate Professor | Drexel University | Philadelphia, PA United States |
Ethics, Philosophy of Law | [MENA] [MR] | |
Harfouch, John | Assistant Professor of Philosophy | University of Alabama-Huntsville | Huntsville, Alabama United States |
Arabic Philosophy, Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Critical Theory, Early Modern Philosophy, European Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Metaphysics, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind, Social and Political Philosophy | [MENA] [MR] | |
Hesni, Samia | Graduate Student * | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts United States |
Philosophy of Language | [MENA] [W] | |
Huerter, Sofia | Graduate Student * | University of Washington | Seattle, Washington United States |
Applied Ethics, Critical Theory, Ethics, Feminist Philosophy, Hermeneutics, Meta-Ethics, Normative Ethics, Philosophy of Intersectionality, Philosophy of Gender, Philosophy of Language | [LGBTQ+] [MENA] Algerian | Animal Liberation, Moral Epistemology, Anarchafeminism |
Irmak, Nurbay | Assistant Professor | Bogazici University | Istanbul, Turkey |
Bioethics/Medical Ethics, Metaphysics | [MENA] [NC] | |
Kaldas, Antonios | Graduate Student * | Macquarie University | Sydney, New South Wales Australia |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mind | [M] [MENA] Coptic Egyptian | Consciousness, Attention |
Meisami, Sayeh | Assistant Professor | University of Dayton | Dayton, Ohio United States |
Arabic Philosophy | [MENA] [W] Persian | Shi'a philosophy, Islamic Epistemology, Mulla Sadra, Hamid al-Din Kirmani, |
Mizrahi, Moti | Associate Professor | Florida Institute of Technology | Melbourne, Florida United States |
Epistemology, Logic and Philosophy of Logic, Meta-Ethics, Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Science | [MENA] [NC] | |
Pouryousefi, Sareh | Assistant Professor | University of Nottingham | Nottingham, UK |
Applied Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy | [MENA] [W] | |
Romaya, Bassam | Assistant Professor | University of Massachusetts Lowell | Lowell, Massachusetts United States |
Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, Applied Ethics, Arabic Philosophy, Asian (e.g. Chinese, Indian, etc.) Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy, Philosophy of Intersectionality, Philosophy of Gender, Philosophy of Love and Sex, Philosophy of Race, Philosophy o | [LGBTQ+] [MENA] | GLBTQ Philosophy, Philosophy of Peace and Nonviolence |
Tekin, Serife | Assistant Professor | University of Texas at San Antonio | San Antonio, TX United States |
Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Medicine, Philosophy of Psychiatry, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Bioethics, Feminist Philosophy, Medical Humanities | [MENA] [W] | Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Medicine, Philosophy of Psychiatry, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Bioethics, Feminist Philosophy, Medical Humanities |
Tuna, Emine Hande | Assistant Professor | University of California, Santa Cruz | Santa Cruz, California United States |
Kant, Aesthetics, Moral Psychology, and Early Modern Philosophy | [W] [MR] [MENA] [O] Crimean Tatar [LGBTQ+] | |
Wilson, Jessica | Associate Professor | University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada |
Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophical Methodology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science | [MENA] [W] Iranian | |
Heydari Fard, Sahar | PhD Candidate * | University of Cincinnati | Cincinnati, OH United States |
Applied Ethics, Decision, Game, and Rational Choice Theory, Epistemology, Ethics, Feminist Philosophy, Moral Pyschology, Normative Ethics, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Race, Philosophy of Social Science, Political Philosophy | [MENA] | Moral questions about social movements |
Joakim, Sahar | Graduate Student * | Saint Louis University | Saint Louis, MO United States |
Epistemology | [MENA] [MR] [W] | Knowledge, Belief |
Abid, Greyson | Graduate Student | University of California, Berkeley | Berkeley, California United States |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Neuroscience, Philosophy of Psychology | [M] [MENA] [MR] | |
Carel, Havi | Professor of Philosophy | Havi Carel | Bristol, Avon United Kingdom |
20th Cent. Continental Philosophy, Bioethics, Child, Family, Parenting, and Reproduction Ethics, Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Disability, Practical Ethics, Psychoanalytic Theory | [MENA] [D] [W] | Philosophy of medicine |
Khalifa, Kareem | Professor | Middlebury College | Middlebury , VT United States |
Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Social Science | [M] [MENA] [MR] | |
Cimendereli, Yener Cagla | Graduate Student | Syracuse University | Istanbul, New York United States |
Critical Theory, Existentialism, Feminist Philosophy, LGBT Philosophy, Meta-Ethics, Philosophy of Action, Philosophy of Gender, Philosophy of Intersectionality, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Love and Sex, Philosophy of Race, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy | [MENA] [NC] [W] | |
Hadisi, Reza | Lecturer | Princeton University | , United States |
19th Cent. German Philosophy, Epistemology, Ethics, History of Modern European Philosophy, Kant, Medieval Arabic Philosophy, Meta-Ethics, Practical Reason | [MENA] | Unity of practical and theoretical reason, Normativity of logic, Constitutivism, Practical knowledge |
Mohseni, Aydin | Doctoral Candidate * | University of California, Irvine | Irvine, CA United States |
Decision, Game, and Rational Choice Theory, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Social Science | [MENA] [OG] | (Formal, Social) Epistemology of Science, Evolutionary Game Theory |
Kaveh, Shahin | Teaching fellow * | University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA United States |
Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Science | [MENA] [NC] | History of quantum theory |
Blehm, Adam | Graduate Student * | University of Arkansas | Fayetteville, AR United States |
Ethics, Philosophy of Religion | [B] [M] [MENA] | |
Khalidi, Muhammad Ali | Professor | York University | Toronto, ON Canada |
Philosophy of Mind | [M] [MENA] | |
Mohammadian, Mousa | University of Notre Dame | Notre Dame, IN United States |
Medieval Arabic Philosophy, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science | [MENA] [NC] | ||
El Shazly, Adham | Graduate Student ** | Queen's University | Kingston, ON Canada |
Epistemology, Medieval Arabic Philosophy, Meta-Ethics | [MENA] | |
Waked, Bianca M. | Graduate Student * | Cornell University | Ithaca, NY United States |
20th Cent. Anglo-American Philosophy, Aesthetics, Feminist Philosophy, Philosophy of Disability, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Law | [MENA] [MR] [D] [W] | |
Heydari Fard, Sahar | University of Cincinnati | Cincinnati, OH United States |
Applied Ethics, Critical Theory, Decision, Game, and Rational Choice Theory, Ethics, Feminist Philosophy, Normative Ethics, Philosophy of Race, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Social Science, Social Philosophy | [LGBTQ+] [MENA] [NC] [W] | ||
Khalidi, Muhammad Ali | Professor | York University | , Canada |
Medieval Arabic Philosophy, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Social Science | [MENA] Arab Palestinian |