Rebecca C. Johnson's new book excerpted in The Markaz Review
December 15, 2020 – from The Markaz Review
Archive Year
December
October
New book chapter by Wendy Pearlman: "Religion and Mobilization in the Syrian Uprising and War"
October 12, 2020 – from The Oxford Handbook of Politics in Muslim Societies
New book chapter by Wendy Pearlman: "Aspiration, appreciation, and frustration: Syrian asylum seekers and bureaucracy in Germany"
October 6, 2020 – from Refugees and the violence of welfare bureaucracies in Northern Europe
September
Meet Rebecca Johnson, the MENA Program's New Director
September 11, 2020
July
Essay by İpek Yosmaoğlu: Aghia Sophia and a Reckoning with History
July 28, 2020 – from Platform
New article by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd: "Defund the Border Police: Racial Justice and the American Border"
July 15, 2020 – from Canopy Forum (published by the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University)
Wendy Pearlman reassesses the Obama administration's Syria policy
July 14, 2020 – from Ethics & International Affairs
Henri Lauzière & Wendy Pearlman Win 2020 University Teaching Awards
July 9, 2020 – from Northwestern NOW
Jessica Winegar Appointed Director of the Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
July 9, 2020 – from Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
New article by Emrah Yıldız on Commodity & Currency Circuits in Iran under Sanctions
July 9, 2020 – from Cultural Anthropology
June
New book chapter by Wendy Pearlman: "On Field-Being"
June 15, 2020 – from Stories from the Field: A Guide to Navigating Fieldwork in Political Science (Columbia University Press)
May
Remembering Our Friend Riad Ismat (1947-2020)
May 19, 2020
April
Emrah Yıldız publishes article on the weaponization of the US dollar and the international monetary system
April 20, 2020 – from CounterPunch
January
MENA hosts event on “The Kurdish Question” with two Northwestern postdoctoral fellows
January 14, 2020 – from The Daily Northwestern
Ph.D. candidate Rana Khoury publishes one of the Most Influential Articles of 2019 in the journal Perspectives on Politics
January 9, 2020 – from Perspectives on Politics
MENA guest speaker Khaled Fahmy examines the perilous state of academic life in Egypt
January 8, 2020 – from The Daily Northwestern
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd discusses US-Iran tensions on local PBS program "Chicago Tonight"
January 8, 2020 – from WTTW (PBS)