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Head of Department:
Dr Dennis Mizzi
B.A. (Hons), M.St. (Oxon.), D.Phil. (Oxon.)
Post: Senior Lecturer in Hebrew and Ancient Judaism and coordinator of the Hebrew and Near Eastern Studies programme
Research Interests: Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls; Judaism in the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods (3rd century BCE-7th century CE), with a focus on both texts and archaeology; ancient Jewish halakha, with a focus on purity practices; ancient Jewish material culture, with a special interest in chalkstone vessels, stone and metal artefacts, and small finds; ancient synagogues; Hebrew and Aramaic.
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Professor Anthony J. Frendo (on sabbatical leave 1st October 2018-30th September 2019)
B.Phil. (Gallarate); B.Th. (Frank-on-Main); L.anc. Ori. (Rome); L.S.S. (Rome); D.Lett. (Rome); Ph.D. (Lond.)
Professor in Near Eastern Archaeology and the Hebrew Bible (also member of the Department of Classics and Archaeology)
Post: Professor
Research Interests: Near eastern archaeology with a focus on the emergence of ancient Israel as evidenced in the Hebrew Bible and Syro-Palestinian archaeology; Northwest-Semitic languages with a focus on Classical Hebrew and Phoenician-Punic; Biblical Studies (mainly Hebrew Bible); Phoenician-Punic inscriptions from the Maltese islands, especially those retrieved from the site of Tas-Silg (co-director of excavations there 1996-1999) and which I am preparing for publication; currently finishing a book on a methodological study of the relationship between text and artefact with special reference to pre-exilic Israel.
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Prof. Martin R. Zammit
B.A. (Gen.), B.A. (Hons.), Ph.D.
Post: Associate Professor and coordinator Arabic programme
Research interests: Prof. Martin R. Zammit’s research interests include Semitic studies, with a focus on Qur’ānic Arabic and Syriac, Arabic philology in general and Arabic dialectology in particular. Prof. Zammit is the co-translator of the Qur’ān in the Maltese language and has also published a Syriac Reader.
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Ms Ghenwa Mumari
M.ST. Oriental Studies(Oxford), MA Advance Theater Practice(London), B.A.(Hons.)(Damascus), and B.A.(Damascus)
Post: Assistant Lecturer in Arabic
Research Interests: Modern Arabic literature and Arts with a focus on Arabic Drama and popular culture of the Middle East
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Dr Salvatore Giuffrè
B.A. (Hons), M.A. East Asian Studies (Bologna). Ph.D.(Lyon III)
Post: Lecturer in Chinese and coordinator of the Chinese programme.
Research Interests:
- Chinese Literature
- Comparative literature
- Romance Philology
- Romanticism
- Literary Modernism and Aesthetics
- Modern Japanese Literature
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Ms Wei Chen
B.A. (Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language) Sichuan University, M.A. (Chinese Linguistics and Applied Linguistics) Xiamen University
Post: Assistant Lecturer in Chinese
Research Interests:
- The History of Chinese Linguistics
- Missionary Linguistics (Chinese)
- Classic Chinese Literature
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Administrative Staff: Ms Louisa Borg (B.A Hons) 
Post: Administration Specialist
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24 August 2019
https://www.um.edu.mt/arts/oriental/staff
