Omid Ghaemmaghami is Assistant Professor and Acting Director of Arabic Studies in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies at the State University of New York (SUNY) in Binghamton. He holds a PhD in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies from the University of Toronto, an MA in Islamic and Near Eastern Studies from Washington University in St. Louis, and certificates in advanced Arabic from the Dalalah Institute in Damascus and the American University in Cairo (AUC). Omid has taught and lectured on Arabic and Islamic Studies at universities and academic institutions in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Egypt and was the inaugural recipient of the American University in Cairo’s Waheed Samy Award for Excellence in Arabic Writing. He is the author of the forthcoming book, The Invention of Tradition: Encounters with the Hidden Imam in Early Twelver Shi`i Islam, 874-1292CE. Website:

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