Sessional & Course Instructors

2024 Fall, 2025 Winter, and 2024-25 Y courses

 

NMC271H1S The Sufi Tradition in Islam

Contact: a.moshiri@utoronto.ca

NML240Y1Y Introduction to Middle Egyptian

Contact: a.ladd@mail.utoronto.ca

NMC278H1F: Introduction to the Modern Middle East

Contact: dina.fergani@mail.utoronto.ca

NMC104H1F: The Biblical World

Contact: larry.kraskevich@mail.utoronto.ca

NMC251H1F Voice from Ancient Egypt

Contact: k.yamamoto@alumni.utoronto.ca

NMC284H1F Judaism and Feminism: Legal Issues from Menstruation to Ordination

Contact: morgyn.babins@mail.utoronto.ca

NMC276H1S Turkic Mythology from Shamanism to Islam

Contact: nefise.kahraman@utoronto.ca

NML305Y1Y Introduction to Akkadian

Contact: odette.boivin@utoronto.ca

NMC289H1F Introduction to Coptic Studies

NML230H1F Elementary Coptic I

NML231H1S elementary Coptic II

Contact: r.boutros@utoronto.ca

Fields of Study
  • Coptic Studies
  • History
Areas of Interest
  • Coptic architecture and archaeology
  • History and archaeology of Egyptian monasticism
  • History and archaeology of pilgrimage sites in the mediaeval period
  • Study of the pilgrimage phenomenon and the cult of physician saints (anargyroi)
  • Cultural exchanges in the monastic and pilgrimage sites
Education
  • PhD - L.M.S., Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Toronto

 

 

Ramez Boutros Bishara

 

NML340Y1Y Intermediate Middle Egyptian 

Contact: rosemary.ott@mail.utoronto.ca

NMC348H1F Kurdish Studies: A Critical Introduction

Contact: sardar.saadi@mail.utoronto.ca

NMC465H1F Ceramic Analysis

NMC466H1S Near Eastern Ceramics

Contact: stanley.klassen@utoronto.ca

NMC102H1S Heartland of Ancient Empires

Contact: bill.mcgrath@mail.utoronto.ca

NMC260H1F Why the Ancient Near East? Investigating the Great Transformations in Pre- and Proto- History

NMC262H1S Why the Ancient Near East? The Historic Periods

Contact: zeynep.kusdil@mail.utoronto.ca