Reza Huseini was awarded the Navoiy Shahar Faxriy Fuqarosi Medal and made an Honourary Citizen of Navoiy City.
Rachel Simon has published Cultural, Social, and Political Perceptions in the Folktales of Libyan Jews: Life in a Tale with Cambridge Scholars (2024).
Professor Jonathan Gribetz has won the 2024 National Jewish Book Award in the History category (the Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award) for Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy (Princeton University Press, 2024).
Sarah Islam (Ph.D. 2022) and Samin Rashidbeigi (Ph.D. 2024) both received 2024 Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award honorable mentions at MESA’s Annual Meeting held in November.
Nilüfer Hatemi (NES Ph.D. 2000) and Amineh Mahallati have been promoted to Senior Lecturers effective July 1, 2025.
Professor Bernard Haykel has been elected to the American Academy of Sciences and Letters.
Marina Rustow, the Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East, professor of Near Eastern Studies and History, and Director of the Princeton Geniza Lab has been awarded a …
Rami Koujah successfully defended his doctoral dissertation at his Final Public Oral Examination held on July 24, 2024.
The Princeton University Board of Trustees voted to approve the promotion of Associate Professor Jonathan Marc Gribetz to Full Professor.
Tom Abi Samra was awarded the Walter G. Andrews Graduate Student Ottoman Language Summer School Tuition Scholarship.