The Class of 2024 and Class of 2025, please join us for the Middle Eastern Studies Program Reorientation, Monday, October 25, 2021, TOP of the HOP, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm.
Katelyn Zeser '22, a scholar of Arabic, was in a unique position to fix the digital presence of Arabic works at the Hood Museum. I made our digital footprint more accommodating and inclusive for Arabic speakers in our community.
"President Biden was keen not to bequeath a failed Afghan operation to his successors. He may have just opted to bequeath them a bigger problem," writes Senior Lecturer Ezzedine Fishere in a "Washington Post".
Please join us in congratulating Tarek El Ariss, and Jonathan Smolin.
PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE CLASS OF 2021 MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES HONORS THESIS PRESENTATIONS FOLLOWED BY THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THIS YEARS GRADUATING CLASS, MAY 28, 2021, 5:00 - 7:00 PM, ALL ARE WELCOME!
Emily Apter, New York University spoke Tuesday, May 25, 2021.
Wednesday, May 19th, 2021 @ 4 pm, Anneka Lenssen, University of California, Berkeley, Virtual Zoom, Free and open to the public. Anneka Lenssen's new book, Beautiful Agitation: Modern Painting and Politics in Syria, explores how painters in Syria activated the mutability of form to rethink relationships.
The Humanities Seminar in Jewish & Middle Eastern Studies presents a series of virtual lectures this spring. Free and open to the public. Please use the same Zoom link for each lecture.
"The series aims to introduce innovative interdisciplinary research in the area between Arabic literature and poetics, literary theory and comparative literature."
In a "Washington Post" opinion piece, the senior lecturer in Middle Eastern studies writes about the myth of "enlightened despots" and the problemsthat keep Arab states fragile. Despotism, "even that which purports to be enlightened, only exacerbates them," he writes.
