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.
Professor Jonathan Gribetz has published Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy (Princeton University Press, 2024).
Near Eastern Studies held its 2023 Class Day reception in Jones 102 on May 27, 2024.
Karen Chirik won the 2024 NES Backgammon Tournament by defeating senior Shane Patrick.