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Bernard Haykel
Haykel Appointed to Nelson Mandela Chair for Afro Asian Studies
Feb. 22, 2023

Professor Bernard Haykel has been appointed to the Nelson Mandela Chair in Afro Asian Studies, which is a visiting professorship at Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam, Kerala, India. The Mandela Chair was established with the aim of initiating studies and research on Afro-Asian affairs from the perspective of International Relations…

İpek Yosmaoğlu Elected President-Elect of OTSA
Feb. 20, 2023

NES Alumna İpek Kocaömer Yosmaoğlu (Ph.D. 2005) has been elected President-Elect of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (OTSA). Yosmaoğlu, who is an associate professor of History at Northwestern University, wrote her dissertation, “The Priest’s Robe and the Rebel’s Rifle: communal conflict and the construction of national identity in…

Princeton University Library’s Rachel Simon Receives 2022 Partington Award.
Dec. 15, 2022

The Middle East Librarians Association has given Dr. Rachel Simon the 2022 David H. Partington Award.

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Between Wilayah and Waqf: Sacrality, Sovereignty and Society in Early Modern Central Asia
Fri, Mar 24, 2023, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
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202 Jones Hall, Princeton University

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Between Wilayah and Waqf: Sacrality, Sovereignty and Society in Early Modern Central Asia
Sat, Mar 25, 2023, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
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In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in the Twentieth-Century Middle East
Mon, Mar 27, 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:20 pm
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Aaron Rock-Singer
University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Social Life of Manuscripts and the Study of Arabic Literature
Mon, Apr 3, 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:20 pm
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202 Jones Hall, Princeton University

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Matthew Keegan
Barnard College of Columbia University
Making Manuscripts Accessible: Preserving, Describing, and Digitizing Princeton's al-Madani Library
Mon, Apr 10, 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:20 pm
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  • Deborah Schlein
    Princeton University
  • Joyce Bell
    Princeton University
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