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Jones Hall, home of Near Eastern Studies, welcomes the 2018-19 academic year

Cole M. Bunzel and his Ph.D. dissertation examination committee, Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Michael A. Cook, and Bernard Haykel, September 4, 2018

New graduate student orientation, September 6, 2018

Faculty members Greg Bell and Nilüfer Hatemi at the 2018 Academic Expo

First Brown Bag Lunch Talk of 2018: Amir Moosavi (Rutgers University–Newark) presenting “Chronic Wounds: Debating the Legacy of the Iran-Iraq War in Arabic and Persian Literatures”

Faculty book party: Author Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Islam in Pakistan cover, Michael A. Cook introducing both

Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil speaking about the Syrian refugee problem in Lebanon, September 24, 2018

Faculty book party: Marina Rustow introducing author Eve Krakowski and her book; Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt cover; author Eve Krakowski

Usaama A. al-Azami and his Ph.D. dissertation examination committee, Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Michael A. Cook, and examination chair Bernard Haykel, October 23, 2018

Turkish language talk, “Yerini terk idenin yokdur mekânı: Gazzizâde Abdullatif Efendi’nin Kaleminden Vezir Pehlivan İbrahim Paşa (ö. 1766–1820)’nın Çılgın Hayat Hikayesi,” presented by Ali Yaycıoğlu on October 26, 2018

Participants at Transregional Institute Conference "Workshop on Islam and Politics in India," October 26, 2018

TRI lunch talk: “The Veil Decoded” by Isabella de la Houssaye,  November 6, 2018

TRI lunch talk: “The Veil Decoded” by Isabella de la Houssaye,  November 6, 2018

TRI lunch talk: “The Veil Decoded” by Isabella de la Houssaye,  November 6, 2018

Panel on non-academic career options organized by NES graduate students featuring NES alumni Jessica Selma Menteşeoğlu (Tiregol), Ph.D. 1998, Gregory Dean Johnsen, Ph.D. 2017, Zachary Foster, Ph.D. 2017, and Mehmet Darakçıoğlu, Ph.D. 2010,