Department of Near Eastern Studies

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Department News

Gribetz Wins 2024 National Jewish Book Award in History
Jan. 23, 2025

Professor Jonathan Gribetz has won the 2024 National Jewish Book Award in the History category (the Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award) for Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy (Princeton University Press, 2024).

Islam, Rashidbeigi Receive Kerr Dissertation Award Honorable Mentions
Dec. 2, 2024

Sarah Islam (Ph.D. 2022) and Samin Rashidbeigi (Ph.D. 2024) both received 2024 Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award honorable mentions at MESA’s Annual Meeting held in November.

Hatemi and Mahallati Promoted to Senior Lecturers
Dec. 2, 2024

Nilüfer Hatemi (NES Ph.D. 2000) and Amineh Mahallati have been promoted to Senior Lecturers effective July 1, 2025.

Upcoming Events

Gaza on the Eve of the Modern Middle East: New Research on the City and its Region during the Late Ottoman Era
Wed, Feb 12, 2025, 12:00 pm1:00 pm
Speakers
Bye Bye Tiberias Film Screening and talk with Lina Soualem
Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 4:30 pm7:30 pm
Location
Friend Center 101
Speaker
Palestinian Automata
Thu, Feb 20, 2025, 4:30 pm6:00 pm
Location
McCosh 28
Speaker
Rana Mikati & Garrett Davidson
Mon, Feb 24, 2025, 12:00 pm1:20 pm
Location
Jones 202
Facing Fragmentation: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature
Mon, Mar 3, 2025, 4:30 pm6:00 pm
Location
TBD