Department of Near Eastern Studies
Department News
Thursday, Jan 28, 2021
Marina Rustow’s book, The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue, was named a finalist for a 2020 National Jewish Book Award in the...
Wednesday, Jan 6, 2021
Professor Bernard Haykel is the recipient of a Henry Luce Foundation grant to study Muslims in India.
Saturday, Dec 19, 2020
Peter F. Kitlas successfully defended his doctoral dissertation at his Final Public Oral Examination held Friday morning, December 18, 2020.
Upcoming Events
Apocalypticism and Imperial Criticism: (Re)reading of Durr-i Meknun (The Hidden Pearl, c. 1460) in the Context of the anti-Ottoman Crusade
Mon, Mar 1, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Location:
Zoom
Speaker(s):
Ebru Turan
Cultural Memories of the Church of Mary in the Valley of Josaphat
Mon, Mar 8, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Location:
Zoom
Speaker(s):
Mary Farag
The Dragoman Renaissance: Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism
Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Location:
Zoom
Speaker(s):
E. Natalie Rothman
How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Historic Liberal-Islamic Alliance
Mon, Mar 29, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Location:
Zoom
Speaker(s):
Elizabeth Thompson
Politics at the Periphery: Local Governance and Regime Consolidation in Postwar Lebanon
Wed, Mar 31, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Location:
Zoom webinar
Speaker(s):
Christiana Parreira, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University