The Department of Near Eastern Studies will hold its annual Sophomore Open House for prospective concentrators on Monday, March 27, 2023, from 4:30 to 5:30 in Wallace Hall room 300.

Refreshments will be served.

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…

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…