Assistant Professor

B.A.         Middle Eastern Studies, Bir Zeit University; 1981.
M.A.        Philosophy, University of Wisconnsi-Madison; 1986.
M.Phil.    History, Washington University in St. Louis; 1993.
Ph.D.      History, Washington University in St. Louis.; 2008.

Bio

Mohammad Masad joined the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in 2006. He completed his graduate studies in history in the United States, and was a recipient of the prestigious Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Research Abroad Fellowship. His research interests include Islamic history, the Middle East, Medieval divination, Mediterranean cultures and societies, Palestine, Dubai and the UAE. He also has maintained an interest in creative writing, especially poetry and fiction.

Office: Dubai Academic City, (Wing D, D-L1-032)
Phone: +9714 402 1147
Email: mohammad.masad@zu.ac.ae

Teaching Areas

Humanities And Social Sciences courses in the International Studies degree program (e.g. Comparative Intellectual Traditions, World History, Introduction to Culture and Society); and the Global Awareness courses sequence in the University College’s Colloquy’s program (Ancient Civilizations, Imperial Encounters, the Twentieth Century).

Research and Professional Activities

Current research : 

The Medieval Islamic Apocalyptic Tradition; Book version of doctoral dissertation; forthcoming from Ashgate, 2012. 

“Religious and Ethnic Identities and State Formation in the MENA Region”; Book project; Co-editor; Conference proceedings of a workshop co-directed at the 13th Mediterranean Research Meeting (Montecatini Terme, Italy, March 2012).

“Apocalyptic Lore and the Migration of Sacred Texts in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean;” Research paper to be submitted to Al-Masāq, the journal of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean; Summer 2012.

Recent Professional Activities: : 

1- Co-directed a workshop at the 13th Mediterranean Research Meeting in Montecatini Terme, Italy, March 2012, on “Religious and Ethnic Identities and State Formation in the MENA Region.

Presented a paper on “Banu al-Asfar in Islamic Apocalyptic Sources” at the “Peoples of the Apocalypse” conference at the University of Goethe in Frankfurt, October 2011.