Sessional & Course Instructors

2026 Winter, and 2025-26 Y courses

 

NMC471H1S Advanced Topics in Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations: Archaeology of House and Home in the Ancient Near East

Contact: khaled.abujayyab@utoronto.ca

NML240Y1Y Introduction to Middle Egyptian

Contact: a.ladd@mail.utoronto.ca

NML210Y1Y Intermediate Standard Arabic I

Contact: dina.fergani@mail.utoronto.ca

NMC270H1S Christians of the Middle East

Contact: ester.petrosyan@mail.utoronto.ca

NMC357H1S Gender and Sexuality in Premodern Arabic Literature

Contact: fay.north@mail.utoronto.ca

NMC381H1S Modern Islamic Thought

Contact: hosam.helal@mail.utoronto.ca

NML421Y1Y Classical Syriac

Contact: james.toma@mail.utoronto.ca

NMC344H1S Hyksos Subjects to Empire Builders: Cultural and Political History of Ancient Egypt II

Contact: k.yamamoto@alumni.utoronto.ca

NMC198H1S Iranian Women Reveal Their Lives: The First Generation

Contact: niyosha.keyzad@utoronto.ca

NML230H1S 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

 

NMC238H1S The Persian Empire: Superpower of the Ancient World

Contact: rhyne.king@utoronto.ca

NML220Y1Y Introductory Aramaic

Contact: rita.sawaya@utoronto.ca

NML340Y1Y Intermediate Middle Egyptian 

Contact: rosemary.ott@mail.utoronto.ca

NML110Y1Y Elementary Standard Arabic
NML310Y1Y Intermediate Standard Arabic II
NML410Y1Y Advanced Standard Arabic

Contact: samar.abdelgalil@mail.utoronto.ca

NMC348H1S Kurdish Studies: A Critical Introduction

Contact: sardar.saadi@mail.utoronto.ca

NMC262H1S Empires and Internationalism: The Archaeology of the Historic Near East

Contact: sheldon.harmacy@mail.utoronto.ca

NMC471H1S Advanced Topics in Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations: GIS Appllciations in Archaeology

Contact: tucker.deady@mail.utoronto.ca