Department of Near Eastern Studies

Welcome

Jones Hall, home of Near Eastern Studies, welcomes the 2019-20 academic year.
Dana Elizabeth Lee and her Ph.D. Final Public Oral examination committee, Michael A. Cook, M. Qasim Zaman, and Kim Scheppele (Sociology), August 20, 2019.
Participants in NES Intensive Course on Islamic Archaeology, August 19–August 23, 2019, taught by Dr. Denis Genequand. Funded by the David A. Gardner '69 Magic Project and co-sponsored by Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity
Lecturer in Persian Amineh Mahallati and Director of Undergraduate Studies Jonathan Gribetz welcome students at the Academic Expo, September 9, 2019
New graduate student orientation, September 10, 2019
Students of NES 300, Seminar in Research Methods, taught by DUS Jonathan Gribetz, meet with the curators of the Near East Collections, Numismatics, Manuscripts, Rare Books, and Cotsen Children’s Library
Students of NES 300, Seminar in Research Methods, taught by DUS Jonathan Gribetz, meet with the curators of the Near East Collections, Numismatics, Manuscripts, Rare Books, and Cotsen Children’s Library
The opening Brown Bag Lunch of Fall 2019: Arbella Bet-Shlimon discussing “Ethnicity and Conflict in Iraq’s Oil City: A History of Kirkuk”
NES Fall Reception, September 26, 2019: remarks by Chair M. Qasim Zaman and DGS Michael Cook
NES Fall Reception, September 26, 2019
NES Fall Reception, September 26, 2019
Alumnus Wheeler Thackston ’67 (B.A. in Oriental Studies, the precursor to NES) presents “Translating Persian” at the Sept. 30, 2019, Brown Bag Lunch.
NES alumna Karen Bauer (Ph.D. 2008), Institute of Ismaili Studies, presented “From Rage to Repentance: An Emotions History Approach to Qur'an and Sira” at the October 7, 2019, Brown Bag Lunch.
Tim Louthan and his M.A. thesis advisor Max Weiss following Tim’s Final Public Oral Examination, Oct. 8, 2019
NEP certificate recipient Efe Murat Balıkçıoğlu ’10 presents “A Synthesis of Graeco-Arabic Philosophy with Sharia: The Case of the Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Adjudications on al-Ghazālī’s Tahāfut al-falāsifa” at the October 21, 2019, Brown Bag Lunch
Transregional Institute (TRI) Workshop on “Arab Nationalism and its Legacy in the Gulf States,” held November 9–10, 2019
The Princeton Geniza Lab’s TRANSCRIBE-A-THON, November 12, 2019. Co-sponsored by Penn Libraries, Zooniverse and Scribes of the Cairo Geniza
NES graduate students Anna Bailey, Jamie O'Connell, Yaara Perlman, Rachel Richman, and Stephanie Luescher at the Princeton Geniza Lab’s TRANSCRIBE-A-THON, November 12, 2019
Transregional Institute (TRI) lunch talk: NES lecturer and TRI fellow Makio Yamada presenting: “Saudi Arabia’s Economic Diversification away from Oil: Why Is It So Difficult?” on November 12, 2019
NES 247/Hum 247 (Near Eastern Humanities I: From Antiquity to Islam) field trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The course is taught by Daniel Sheffield (NES) and Johannes Haubold (Classics)
NES Holiday Party, December 9, 2019
NES Holiday Party, December 9, 2019
Associate Director of the Arabic Language Program Gregory Bell discussing options for Summer Arabic Language Study on December 12, 2019
Cecilia Palombo and Her Final Public Oral Examination Committee: Jack Tannous (History), Michael Cook (NES, examination chair), and Marina Rustow (NES), January 16, 2020. Not pictured: Petra Sijpesteijn (Leiden University).
First Brown Bag Lunch of the Spring Semester: Christa Salamandra speaking about “City, Chaos, and Conflict in Syrian Television Drama" on February 3, 2020
Francesca Trivellato (Institute for Advanced Study) delivering the 41st Carolyn L. Drucker ’80 Memorial Lecture on February 11, 2020
Persian calligraphy workshop taught by Manzar Moghbeli, February 13, 2020
Tülin Kozikoğlu speaking in Turkish about writing children’s books. She later offered a creative writing workshop, February 13, 2020
Medieval Cairo: A Survival Guide (NES 390/HIS 221) workshop: Crystal carving using medieval methods presented by Moreno Elise, February 13, 2020
Medieval Cairo: A Survival Guide (NES 390/HIS 221) workshop: Crystal carving using medieval methods presented by Moreno Elise, February 13, 2020
Book party for Marina Rustow’s The Lost Archive: Eve Krakowski introducing the author and her work
Jelena Radovanović and her Ph.D. Final Public Oral Examination committee: Ekaterina Pravilova (History), DGS Michael Cook, Molly Greene (History), examination chair M. Şükrü Hanioğlu, and Emily J. Greble (Vanderbilt) via Skype.