Middle Eastern and Asian Studies to Get Their Own Programs
May 14, 2018
Faculty say the restructuring will encourage deeper, more interdisciplinary study.
[more]Faculty say the restructuring will encourage deeper, more interdisciplinary study.
[more]The Leslie Center for the Humanities hosts its third annual celebration of faculty books.
[more]‘All That Nonsense,’ by Visiting Professor Ezzedine Fishere, is a best-seller in Egypt.
[more]“Police repression is an experience that binds people throughout the Arab world,” writes Jonathan Smolin in his new book, Moroccan Noir: Police, Crime, and Politics in Popular Culture. But as Smolin found while researching the book, Morocco has reformed the image of its national police by embracing mass media such as television cop shows and police fiction. And this, he says, is one of the key reasons the Arab Spring protests didn’t hit harder in the nation of more than 32 million.
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