Department of Near Eastern Studies

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Department News

Koujah Wins the 2025 Julien Mezey Dissertation Award
June 25, 2025

Rami Koujah was a co-winner of the 2025 Julien Mezey Dissertation award awarded by the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities for his dissertation entitled “Rights, Responsibility, and the Legal Construction of the Human: An Intellectual History of Personhood in Islamic Law.” This annual prize is awarded to the…

Information Sessions for Prospective PhD Students in Near Eastern Studies Announced
June 13, 2025

Information sessions for prospective PhD students in Near Eastern Studies will be held on July 30 and October 24.

Intensive Course on Pre-Islamic Arabia and Arabic to be held in January 2026
June 11, 2025

Dr. Ahmad al-Jallad will teach an intensive course on “Pre-Islamic Arabias, Arabics, and Arabs” 

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