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Andrew Simon Featured on the Phantom Power Podcast
April 28, 2025

Simon, a historian of media, popular culture, and the Middle East, explores how cassette tapes emerged as the first mass medium in Egypt to bypass state control.
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Hoda Barakat Receives Sheikh Zayed Book Award
April 15, 2025

The visiting professor of Middle Eastern studies and Montgomery Fellow was honored for her recent novel.
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Professor Bernard Avishai quoted in The New Yorker
April 2, 2025

The Visiting Professor of Government writes in a piece saying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is bringing Israel back to war.
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Public lecture with Yehouda Shenhav, 'From Al-Andalus to Elias Khoury: Rethinking Translation in Conflict'
March 19, 2025

Date: April 24th, 2025. Time: 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Location: Carson L02
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How One Author Used Melodrama to Express Dissent in Mid-Century Egypt
February 19, 2025

Jonathan Smolin offers the first scholarly examination of the wildly popular writer Ihsan Abdel Kouddous.
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