Middle East
Research and teaching programs
The Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies
The Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies (CCMS) aims to foster academic and public understanding of Muslim societies and cultures by curating events and programs that create a safe space for discussion, relationship building and academic and community outreach. As Muslim societies and cultures have increasingly become the focus of public and academic attention, the CCMS works to broaden the discussion, and introduce more complexity into the study of Muslim societies and cultures from Africa, through the Arab and Persianate world, and into Asia and the West.
Faculty with Regional Expertise
Zafar Adeel
Professor of Professional Practice, School of Sustainable Energy Engineering
Arab Region
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Islam in Europe and Canada
Professor and Stephen Jarislowsky Chair, School for International Studies
Law and society; religion and politics; politics of the Middle East.
Nazanin Shahrokni
Associate Professor, International Studies
Gender, development, globalization; politics of the Middle East
Lecturer, School of Communication
Persia, migration, globalization
Associate Professor, Communication
Modern Middle East
Azadeh Yamini-Hamedani
Assistant Professor & Chair, World Languages and Literatures
Interconnections of literature and philosophy, Iran
Catherine D'Andrea
Professor, Faculty of Environment
Early agricultural peoples and the rise of complex societies in the Horn of Africa.
Dena Wosk Professor in Art and Culture Studies
Cinema in the Arab world
Paul Sedra
Associate Professor, History
Modern Middle East; education and the rise of the modern state; Egyptian cinema