Emran El-Badawi
Emran El-Badawi is program director and associate professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the Department of Modern and Classical Languages. He is responsible for the Arab Studies Minor, degrees in World Cultures and Literatures: Middle Eastern Studies Concentration, Arabic Credit by Exam, and undergraduate scholarships for excellent in Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies. His current courses include Energy, Society & the Middle East (ENRG 4397, ARAB 3377), Women and Gender in Arabic Literature (ARAB 3314), Modernity and Rationalism in Islamic Traditions (ARAB 3340), Early Islamic Society: Literature and Thought ca. 750-1250 (WCL 3341), and Qur’an as Literature (ARAB 3313).
He is also co-founder of the International Qur’anic Studies Association, an affiliate of the Society of Biblical Literature, and the first academic society of its kind. Among its goals are holding regular conferences, publishing cutting edge scholarship, and building bridges between students and scholars in western and Muslim majority countries.
El-Badawi’s research focuses on civilization in the Middle East & North Africa, including Late Antique Arabia, Qur’an and Bible, Syriac Churches, Classical Islam, Modernity and Liberalism, Diversity, Gender, and Sustainability. He is author of “Vanished Queens: Female Power and Male Prophecy in Arabia” (Ms. Under Review), “The Qur’an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions” (Routledge, 2013), translated into Arabic by Salah Edris, “al-Qur’an al-Karim wa Taqalid Kitabat al-Bisharah al-Aramiyyah” (Dar al-Nahdah al-‘Arabiyyah, 2021), and co-editor with Paula Sander of “Communities of the Qur’an: Dialogue, Debate and Diversity in the 21st Century” (OneWorld, 2019). His current research includes a project exploring the Judeo-Christian origins of medieval Arab-Islamic culture, and a collaborative study on modern hate speech as a global challenge with The Boniuk Foundation.
El-Badawi’s work has been featured in The New York Times, Al-Jazeera and the Association Relative à la Télévision Européenne (ARTE).