The Steering Committee, headed by the Director, is composed of “core” faculty who have been, or continue to be, active in the running of the Center and in teaching on the Middle East in their departments. The committee’s functions are to offer advice to the director on matters pertaining to the Center, to vote on key Center policy issues, and to serve as a conduit for information on Middle Eastern studies at Harvard and beyond the university.

2008 – 2009 Steering Committee

Cemal Kafadar, Chair

Ali Asani

Steven Caton

Jocelyne Cesari

Eric Chaney

Marwa Elshakry

Luis M. Girón-Negrón

William A. Graham

William Granara

Wolfhart P. Heinrichs

Baber Johansen

Susan Kahn

Salmaan Keshavjee

Tarek Masoud

Roy Mottahedeh

Afsaneh Najmabadi

Roger Owen

David Roxburgh

Hashim Sarkis