Jessica Winegar named Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Chair in Middle East Studies
June 15, 2022
2022
June
May
Celebrating the legacy of renowned Iranian film scholar Hamid Naficy
May 27, 2022 – from Northwestern NOW
Graduate student Lauren Baker publishes paper on the “sanitization of garbage politics” in the MENA
May 10, 2022 – from The Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS)
April
Kyle Craig named a 2022-2023 Franke Graduate Fellow of the Kaplan Humanities Institute
April 28, 2022 – from Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Shirin Vossoughi honored with 2022 University Teaching Award
April 15, 2022 – from Northwestern School of Education & Social Policy
New article by Wendy Pearlman on exile, home, and belonging among Syrian refugees
April 14, 2022 – from International Migration Review
March
New article by MENA graduate student Kyle Craig: “The Challenges of Palestinian Solidarity in Amman’s Street Art Scene”
March 30, 2022 – from Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP)
February
New article by Jessica Winegar: “The Continued Search for Dignity and the Allure of Authoritarian Aesthetics”
February 22, 2022 – from Social Science Research Council
MENA graduate student Safa Al-Saeedi discusses her recent article “The Arab spring: why did the uprisings miss the monarchies?” on the Project on Middle East Political Science podcast
February 10, 2022 – from The Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS)
“The Translator,” new feature film directed by MENA faculty affiliate Rana Kazkaz, takes viewers into the heart of “the Syrian dilemma”
February 7, 2022 – from The Markaz Review
https://themarkaz.org/the-translator-brings-the-syrian-dilemma-to-the-big-screen/
Artist & MENA faculty member Michael Rakowitz’s new exhibition “re-appears” missing and destroyed artifacts taken from the National Museum of Iraq
February 7, 2022 – from The Markaz Review
Wendy Pearlman discusses her book-in-progress on home & belonging in Yale Program on Refugees, Forced Displacement & Humanitarian Responses series
February 4, 2022 – from Yale Daily News