Department of Near Eastern Studies

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Department News

Marina Rustow Featured on University’s Homepage.
March 12, 2024

Marina Rustow, Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East and Professor of Near Eastern Studies and History, has been featured on the University homepage in a section titled “Exceptional Faculty.” It cites Rustow’s use of “machine learning to decipher thousands of Arabic and Hebrew fragments preserved in a medieval…

Bozluolcay Wins Syrian Studies Association Dissertation Prize
Nov. 17, 2023

Murat Bozluolcay has been awarded the Syrian Studies Association Dissertation.

Zangieva Wins Andreas Tietze Memorial Fellowship
Nov. 15, 2023

Fourth-year Ph.D. student Alika Zangieva has been awarded the 2024 Andreas Tietze Memorial Fellowship in Turkish Studies at the University of Vienna.

Upcoming Events

In the Presence of Prophets and Martyrs: Religion and Cultural Memory in fifteenth-century Bukhara
Mon, Mar 18, 2024, 12:00 pm1:20 pm
Location
202 Jones Hall
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Between Text and Image: Gender and Embodiment in the 1001 Nights
Mon, Apr 1, 2024, 12:00 pm12:20 pm
Location
202 Jones Hall
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The 44th Annual Carolyn L. Drucker '80 Memorial Lecture
Mon, Apr 1, 2024, 4:30 pm6:00 pm
Location
Robertson Hall 001
International Law and Israel's War on Gaza
Tue, Apr 9, 2024, 4:30 pm6:00 pm
Location
McCosh Hall, Room 10
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The Circulation of the "Kutub al-Mutawassiṭāt" Astronomical Curriculum, 9th-13th Centuries
Mon, Apr 22, 2024, 12:00 pm1:20 pm
Location
202 Jones Hall
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