MENA graduate student Nicholas Bascuñan-Wiley publishes article on "Remembering Palestine Through Cuisine in Chile"
November 6, 2019 – from Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies
2019 News
November
October
MENA series at Evanston Public Library kicks off with event on Syrian documentary film
October 7, 2019 – from The Daily Northwestern
New article by Wendy Pearlman on Syrian refugees in Turkey and Germany
October 6, 2019 – from Comparative Politics
Q & A with Brannon Ingram about his book Revival from Below: The Deoband Movement and Global Islam
October 6, 2019 – from Jadaliyya
August
Wendy Pearlman publishes book chapter on "Civil Action in the Syrian Conflict"
August 23, 2019 – from Civil Action and the Dynamics of Violence (Oxford University Press)
PhD student Kyle Craig publishes review-essay on "Infrastructures of Belonging and Sectarianism in the Middle East"
August 21, 2019 – from Political and Legal Anthropology Review
July
A MENA Student Reflects on her Summer in Jordan
July 23, 2019
by Hannah Brown
Katherine Hoffman publishes book chapter on parentless children in Morocco and Islamic family law
July 18, 2019 – from Filiation and the Protection of Parentless Children: Towards a Social Definition of the Family in Muslim Jurisdictions
New article by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd: "Dangerous Logic at the Border: Religion and the Travel Ban"
July 2, 2019 – from Religion & Politics
June
Arabic professor Fatima Khan wins Weinberg College Arts and Sciences Alumni Teaching Award
June 11, 2019 – from Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
May
MENA graduate Omar Shanti awarded MEDRESET Young Writers Prize for his paper "El Haraga Read Through Maghrebi Literary Production"
May 31, 2019 – from Middle East Monitor
Oya Topçuoğlu co-authors article in The Conversation about archaeological looting in Syria
May 15, 2019 – from The Conversation
Wendy Pearlman speaks at Evanston Literary Festival on telling the stories of refugees and immigrants
May 14, 2019 – from The Daily Northwestern
Oya Topçuoğlu co-authors article on the economic effects of archaeological looting in Syria
May 10, 2019 – from International Journal of Cultural Property
April
Podcast: Wendy Pearlman on her book Triadic Coercion: Israel’s Targeting of States That Host Nonstate Actors
April 29, 2019 – from New Books Network
Beth Hurd & Brannon Ingram organize ‘Reporting Islam’ symposium
April 26, 2019 – from Northwestern NOW
Rebecca Johnson traces cultural change through literary translation
April 9, 2019 – from Northwestern NOW
Wendy Pearlman on public opinion toward Israel in the era of Netanyahu and Trump
April 9, 2019 – from Newsy
Emrah Yıldız named Kaplan Humanities Institute Faculty Fellow for 2019-2020
April 8, 2019 – from Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
March
Danny Postel publishes article in special issue of MERIP on Yemen
March 30, 2019 – from Middle East Report
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd Named a Luce/ACLS Fellow in Religion, Journalism & International Affairs
March 6, 2019 – from American Council of Learned Societies
February
Wendy Pearlman Discusses New Book on POMEPS Podcast
February 28, 2019 – from Project on Middle East Political Science
Documentary Film Examines the Life and Work of Hamid Naficy
February 26, 2019 – from Northwestern NOW
MENA Student Wins Undergraduate Language Grant to Study Turkish in Istanbul
February 26, 2019
Brannon Ingram interviewed on the New Books in Islamic Studies podcast
February 22, 2019 – from New Books Network
January
Wendy Pearlman: "Becoming a Refugee: Reflections on Self-Understandings of Displacement from the Syrian Case"
January 31, 2019 – from Review of Middle East Studies
Jessica Winegar Named Co-Editor of the Political and Legal Anthropology Review
January 31, 2019 – from Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
Story about Oya Topçuoğlu's first-year seminar on Turkish food & culture
January 22, 2019 – from Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Ayça Alemdaroğlu publishes article on Turkish youth politics in Middle East Report
January 22, 2019 – from Middle East Report
A MENA Student Reflects on his Summer in Turkey
January 16, 2019