Wendy Pearlman interviews Syrian activist Oula Ramadan about the current stage in the Syrian struggle for freedom
December 15, 2021 – from Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP)
2021 News
December
MENA graduate student George Abraham to perform a re-imagining of Milton’s Paradise Lost through the lens of Palestinian liberation
December 13, 2021 – from Arab American National Museum
Interview with Rana Kazkaz about the Syrian conflict & her career as a filmmaker
December 8, 2021 – from Breaking Boundaries podcast (Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs)
MENA graduate student Safa Al-Saeedi publishes journal article: “The Arab spring: why did the uprisings miss the monarchies?”
December 7, 2021 – from Contemporary Politics
New book award established in honor of longtime MENA Program faculty member & pioneering Iranian studies scholar Hamid Naficy
December 2, 2021 – from Association for Iranian Studies
November
Anoush Suni interviewed about her research on the reverberations of the historic Armenian presence in the lives of contemporary Kurdish communities
November 11, 2021 – from Living with Religious Difference Podcast (Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme)
MENA graduate student George Abraham, 2021 Arab American Book Award winner, to be honored in ceremony
November 11, 2021 – from Arab American National Museum
October
MENA graduate student Kyle Craig awarded honorable mention by the student paper prize committee of the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association
October 25, 2021 – from American Anthropological Association
September
Brannon Ingram interviewed for NPR story on the Taliban and the Deobandi school of Islam
September 8, 2021 – from Morning Edition - NPR
Q & A with MENA graduate student Azadeh Safaeian about her research on trauma and war
September 7, 2021 – from TGS Spotlight Series - The Graduate School, Northwestern
August
New article by Emrah Yıldız on commodities, currencies, and sanctions on Iran
August 31, 2021 – from International Journal of Middle East Studies
Oya Topçuoğlu, Assistant Professor of Instruction, Turkish, reviews the book Plundered Empire: Acquiring Antiquities from Ottoman Lands
August 21, 2021 – from Bryn Mawr Classical Review
MENA faculty members Rajeev Kinra and Elizabeth Shakman Hurd weigh in on recent developments in Afghanistan
August 17, 2021 – from Northwestern NOW
Interview with MENA graduate student Maryam Athari about her research on Iraqi architect, photographer & author Rifat Chadirji
August 2, 2021 – from Association for Modern + Contemporary Art of the Arab world, Iran + Turkey
July
MENA graduate student Hamed Yousefi publishes chapter in the book Global 1979: Geographies & Histories of the Iranian Revolution
July 30, 2021 – from Cambridge University Press
Prof. Fatima Khan creates online Arabic dictionary
July 27, 2021 – from The Daily Northwestern
MENA graduate student Rana B. Khoury publishes article on Syria, Turkey & the geopolitics of humanitarian aid
July 23, 2021 – from The Monkey Cage (Washington Post)
New article by Shayna Silverstein on masculinity, dance, and autocracy in Syria
July 20, 2021 – from Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Wendy Pearlman's book on Syria selected among the "Essential Readings on Refugees and Forced Displacement"
July 8, 2021 – from Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative/Jadaliyya
May
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd reviews Ussama Makdisi's book Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World
May 31, 2021 – from H-Diplo (H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online)
MENA graduate student Marzouq Alnusf awarded prestigious Newcombe Fellowship
May 24, 2021 – from Northwestern NOW
MENA Program Statement on Palestinian Rights
May 14, 2021
New MENA Undergrad Group hosts forum on global student activism
May 4, 2021 – from The Daily Northwestern
April
MENA Graduate Student Azadeh Safaeian Awarded a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship
April 27, 2021 – from American Council of Learned Societies
New article by Zekeria Ahmed Salem on "The Importance of Mauritanian Scholars in Global Islam"
April 13, 2021 – from Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP)
March
New journal article by Shayna Silverstein on the "Audibility of Networked Performances in Protests and Funerals of the Arab Revolutions"
March 19, 2021 – from Performance Matters
New article by Shayna Silverstein: "An (Un)Marked Foreigner: Race-Making in Egyptian, Syrian, and German Popular Cultures"
March 15, 2021 – from Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd weighs in on the separatism bill and the “Islamo-leftism” controversy in France
March 5, 2021 – from Boston Review
February
New essay by Wendy Pearlman on "story-telling and self-making after the Arab Spring"
February 10, 2021 – from Al-Jumhuriya
New article by Jessica Winegar: "The power of nonsense: humour in Egypt’s counter/revolution"
February 10, 2021 – from British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
Emrah Yıldız has been invited to join the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany as a Visiting Fellow during the 2021-2022 academic year
February 4, 2021
January
Wendy Pearlman discusses "field-being" and developing local knowledge on the Stories from the Field podcast
January 24, 2021 – from Stories from the Field podcast
New book by MENA Director Rebecca C. Johnson: Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation
January 15, 2021 – from Cornell University Press