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Benfey Wins DAAD Fellowship
April 6, 2017

Third-year Ph.D. student Thomas Benfey has been awarded a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst grant for 2017–18. The grant will support a year of study at the Freie Universität in Berlin. Benfey will be working on his dissertation, which will focus on the relationship between Sasanian and early Islamic intellectual life.


Al-Ahmad Hired as Lecturer in Arabic
March 31, 2017

After a national search, Faris Al-Ahmad has been hired as Lecturer in Arabic. Al-Ahmad is currently teaching Arabic at Princeton and has previously taught Arabic at Columbia University and at Hunter College. Al-Ahmad earned his B.A. in Arabic-English Translation from the University of Damascus and an M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies from The CUNY…

Gribetz Awarded NEH Summer Stipend
March 30, 2017

Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies and the Program in Judaic Studies Jonathan Gribetz has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend grant for 2017. His research project is entitled "Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO's Research on Judaism and Israel."