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Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations

James Reilly

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • History of Syria and Lebanon

Office: N/A
Website
Email: james.reilly@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Mary-Ann Pouls Wegner

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Ancient Egypt
  • Ancient history
  • Archaeology
  • Egyptology
  • Gender in Archaeology
  • Landscape archaeology
  • Politics of archaeology
  • Social Anthropology

Office: 416-946-7451
Languages: French, German, Spanish, Colloquial Arabic (Egyptian) and Ancient Egyptian
Website
Email: ma.poulswegner@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Phone, Email
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Robert Holmstedt

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Ancient Israel
  • Biblical Hebrew
  • Hebrew Bible
  • Semitic languages

Office: N/A
Languages: Hebrew,Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE); Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE),Ugaritic,Geez,English,French,German
Website
Email: robert.holmstedt@utoronto.ca
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Timothy Harrison

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Biblical archeology
  • Near Eastern archeology

Office: 416-978-6600
Website
Email: tim.harrison@utoronto.ca
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Todd Lawson

Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Islamic religion
  • Islamic thought (theology, philosophy, mysticism)
  • Mysticism
  • Philosophy
  • Qur'an commentary
  • Shi'i Islam
  • Sufism

Office: 514-885-6552
Website
Email: todd.lawson@utoronto.ca
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