Becca Keener ’17, a religion major who is pursuing certificates in Near Eastern Studies and Arabic Language and Culture, has been awarded a Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship. Keener plans to attend the London School of Economics in order to earn a master’s degree in global Europe: culture and conflict. “For her senior thesis,…
Assistant professor Lara Harb has been awarded a “Fellowship for University Teachers” grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities for her project “Mimesis in Classical Arabic Literature.” These fellowships “support college and university teachers and independent scholars pursuing advanced research.”
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Preston Lim ’17, an NES concentrator who is also working on a Certificate in the History and Practice of Diplomacy, was named a 2018 Schwarzman Scholar. The Schwarzman Scholars program “is a highly selective, one-year master’s program at Tsinghua University in Beijing that is designed to prepare the next generation of global leaders for the…
Karen Bauer (Ph.D. 2008) and Nadav Samin (Ph.D. 2013) shared the Runner Up prize in the 2016 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize competition.
Bauer won for her book Gender Hierarchy in the Qurʼān: Medieval Interpretations, Modern Responses (Cambridge University Press, 2015), which was…
Faris Al-Ahmad joined Near Eastern Studies as an Arabic language lecturer in September for the current academic year. Al-Ahmad 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…
Sixth-year Ph.D. student Alexander Balistreri was awarded the Heath W. Lowry Distinguished Dissertation Writing Fellowship for 2016–17 by the Institute of Turkish Studies. His dissertation, “Creating Nations and States on the Turkish-Caucasian Border, 1850-1950,” examines state- and nation-building in the Turkish-Caucasian…
The International Journal of Middle East Studies 48, no. 3, has a strong contingent of NES-related authors. Assistant professor M’hamed Oualdi contributes the article “Mamluks in Ottoman Tunisia: A Category Connecting State and Social Forces”; Sara Pursley, Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Near Eastern Studies and Cotsen…
Professor Emeritus Farhat Ziadeh, the founder of both the Middle East Center, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization, University of Washington, Passed away on June 8, 2016, at the age of 99 years old.
Born in Ramallah, Ottoman Empire, in 1917, Ziadeh earned his BA…
Philip Zhakevich will join Near Eastern Studies as the Hebrew language lecturer beginning in the 2016–17 academic year. Zhakevich, who has previously taught Hebrew at Columbia and UCLA, earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas, Austin in the Hebrew Bible. His dissertation was titled “The Tools of an Israelite Scribe––A Semantic Study of…
The Princeton University Board of Trustees approved the appointment of Daniel Sheffield as an assistant professor in Near Eastern Studies. Sheffield, who will teach the history of medieval Iran, was Assistant Professor of the History of the Islamic World before 1850 at the University of Washington during the 2015–16 academic year. He holds a Ph…