Alan Verskin’s A Vision of Yemen: The Travels of a European Orientalist and His Native Guide: A Translation of Hayyim Habshuh’s Travelogue received an honorable mention from the Modern Language Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work competition. The committee citation reads:…
Katy Montoya, who completed her M.A. in Near Eastern Studies in June 2021, has completed her short documentary film, The Need to Subsist Here. Recently released, the film may be viewed on Vimeo through the link embedded in the title. Help it win the…
Ekaterina Pukhovaia successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, “Between Sultans and Imams: The State and Political Elites in Yemen (Late 15th – Middle of 17th Century),” at her Final Public Oral Examination held Friday, September 10, 2021, via Zoom. The examination committee consisted of her advisor, Michael Cook (NES), M. Qasim Zaman …
Edith X. Chen successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, “Southern Iranian Vassal States under the Ilkhanate (1220–1300),” at her Final Public Oral Examination held Monday, June 28, 2021, via Zoom. The examination committee consisted of her advisor, Michael Cook (NES), Marina Rustow (NES), and Eve Krakowski (NES).
Katy M. Montoya successfully defended her M.A. thesis, “‘Loving the Revolution but Hating the People’: On Reorienting Syrian Cultural Production Toward Syria’s Revolutionary Masses,” at her Final Public Oral Examination on Tuesday afternoon, June 22, 2021. Conducting the examination were her advisor was Max Weiss …
Alexander E. Balistreri successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, “The Persistence of the Periphery: Domination and Change in the Anatolian-Caucasian Borderland,” at his Final Public Oral Examination held Tuesday, June 15, 2021. The examination committee consisted of his advisor, Michael Reynolds (NES), M. Şükrü…
A Slave Between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa (Columbia University Press, 2020) by M’hamed Oualdi, a former member of the Near Eastern Studies faculty…
Cevat Dargin successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, “State-Making in Dersim across Empire and Nation-state (1878–1938),” at his Final Public Oral Examination held Wednesday, May 26, 2021, in the afternoon. The examination committee consisted of his advisor, Michael Reynolds (NES), Bernard Haykel (NES), Max Weiss (History and NES), and…
Near Eastern Studies held its 2021 Class Day on May 24 virtually. During the celebration, the Department and Program announced departmental honors and presented this year’s prize winners. Following opening remarks by NES Chair M. Qasim Zaman, Director of Undergraduate Studies Jonathan