NES celebrates Class Day 2019: Near Eastern Studies and Language and Culture certificate recipients: Maha Al Fahim (NES), Sydney Jordan (Arabic), Matthew Miller (NES and Arabic), Maddy Pollack (Arabic), Noah Hastings (Arabic), Nicky Don (Arabic and Turkish), Paul Spiegl (Arabic)

NES celebrates Class Day 2019: Graduating seniors Paul Spiegl, Sophie Evans, Noreen Andersen, Noah Hastings, and Brooke Smilen

Wafa Isfahani and her M.A. Final Public Oral examination committee, advisor M. Qasim Zaman and Bernard Haykel, May 20, 2019.

Deborah Joanne Schlein and her Ph.D. Final Public Oral examination committee, Michael A. Cook, M. Qasim Zaman, Anthony Grafton (History), Divya Cherian (History), and Nahyan Fancy (DePauw University), May 17, 2019.

2nd Princeton Undergraduate Near Eastern Studies Conference, May 3–4, 2019, organized by Yousef Elzalabany and Isaac Wolfe: Shaffin Siddiqui ’22 presenting “Streaming Salafiyya”

Turkish lunch talk, April 26, 2019: Katia Arslan speaking about "Türkiye’de Tespih Kullanımının Toplumsal Temelleri”

Near Eastern Studies Take-a-Break social hour, April 24, 2019

Near Eastern Studies Take-a-Break social hour, Feb. 21, 2019

Persian calligraphy class, April 9, 2019, with Ostad Manzar Moghbeli

Davis Center Fellows visit the Geniza Lab, hosted by Marina Rustow and Eve Krakowski, on April 10, 2019

Ertegün lecture, April 18, 2019: Yücel Yanıkdağ, University of Richmond, speaking about “Cultural and Gendered Sources of Soldier Motivation and Morale in the Ottoman First World War”

NES 212, “The Idea of Iran: History, Memory, and the Making of a Cultural Identity,” taught by Daniel Sheffield: Field trip to New York City, May 4, 2019

Muslims & Manuscripts, April 23–24, 2019: Speakers Christiane Gruber and Tehseen Thaver

Muslims & Manuscripts, April 23–24, 2019: Convener NES Ph.D. student Deborah Schlein

The 40^th Annual Carolyn L. Drucker ’80 Memorial Lecturer Judith Olszowy-Schlanger with Tom Drucker and Marina Rustow

Members of the Advisory Council during their April 12, 2019, visit

Departmental Representative Eve Krakowski addressing prospective concentrators at the NES Sophomore Open House, April 10, 2019

The Transregional Institute Advisory Council with Institute Director Bernard Haykel, April 2, 2019

Khaled Abou El Fadl (NES Ph.D. ’99) with graduate student participants in an interdisciplinary seminar, “On Reasoning with God,” March 28, 2019

“On Reasoning with God,” interdisciplinary graduate seminar with Khaled Abou El Fadl (NES Ph.D. ’99), March 28, 2019

Graduate Applicant Visit weekend: DGS Michael Cook addressing applicants and graduate students, March 1, 2019

Graduate applicant visit weekend March 2, 2019

Changing State-Society Relations in Gulf Rentier States workshop, January 25–26, 2019, participants

Changing State-Society Relations in Gulf Rentier States workshop, January 25–26, 2019, organizers Jesse Moritz and Makio Yamada

First Brown Bag Lunch Talk of Spring Semester, 2019: Brinkley Messick (Columbia University) presenting "Sharia Ethnography"

TRI lunchtime talk: Bernard Haykel (Near Eastern Studies) speaking on "Saudi Arabia after Khashoggi," February 5, 2019

Near Eastern Studies Fall Reception, September 26, 2018

Near Eastern Studies Fall Reception, September 26, 2018

Near Eastern Studies Fall Reception, September 26, 2018: Acting Chair Bernard Haykel and Director of Graduate Studies Michael Cook opening the festivities

Near Eastern Studies Holiday Party, December 5, 2018

Near Eastern Studies Holiday Party, December 5, 2018

The final Brown Bag Lunch talk of the Fall 2018-19 Semester: Abigail Krasner Balbale of New York University presenting ""Reimagining the Reconquista: Problems in the Arabic Historiography of al-Andalus"" on December 10, 2018

Near Eastern Studies Holiday Party, December 5, 2018

Arabic Study Abroad information meeting led by Arabic lecturer Greg Bell

Acting Chair Bernard Haykel speaking at the retirement luncheon for Dr. James Weinberger, Curator of the Library’s Near East Collections, November 29, 2018.

2018 Leon B. Poullada Memorial Lecturer Gülru Necipoğlu with Mrs. Leon Poullada and Peter Poullada