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Call for Papers - Nuclear Issues in the Middle East and North Africa
Nuclear Issues in the Middle East and North Africa International Conference at the University of Pennsylvania’s Middle East Center April 2023 Call for PapersProf. Jamal Elias Awarded Grant from Templeton Religion Trust!
Congratulations to Prof. Jamal Elias, who has been awarded a grant by the Templeton Religion Trust for a project entitled "Art and Islam in Society: Aesthetic Cognition Expanding Religious Meaning"! The 18-month, $222,000 grant will fund a study of the relationship between art and understanding in American Muslim communities.MMES Major Cole McCann-Phillips wins Pulitzer Center Fellowship!
Cole McCann-Phillips will be joining the 2022 Pulitzer Center cohort as a Reporting Fellow for gender equality. His project will focus on stories and experiences of women in Lebanon working as domestic workers and the many challenges they face.Fall 2021 Issue of Fenjan out now!
Check out the new Fall 2021 Issue of Fenjan here.Pre-Modern Comparative Literary Practice in the Multilingual Islamic World(s) Virtual Conference
This virtual conference was co-organized by Huda Fakhreddine (University of Pennsylvania), David Larsen (New York University), and Hany Rashwan (University of Birmingham), with special thanks to Rawad Wehbe (University of Pennsylvania). The conference was hosted by the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Research Centre (OCCT), University of Oxford, 22-24 July 2021.Our new director, Harun Küçük, featured in Penn Today!
Click here to read the full article.Congratulations Janet Lee Stevens Fellowship Winners - Ali Noori and Weston Bland!
We are excited to announce the 2021 Janet Lee Stevens Fellowship winners...Ali Noori and Weston Bland!!Announcing Our New Director: Harun Küçük
It is with a tremendous feeling of honor, excitement and pleasure that we introduce to you our new director — Dr. Harun Küçük, Associate Professor in the Department of History and Sociology of Science — who will be assuming the leadership of the Center on July 1, 2021.2021 Rose Undergraduate Research Award goes to...Taylor Nelson!
Taylor Nelson's project "North Africa and the Making of American Psychological Warfare and Propaganda, 1942-1945" under the direction of Professor Heather Sharkey has been selected to receive a 2021 Rose Undergraduate Research Award.MMES Students Selected for Initiation into Phi Beta Kappa Society!
We are delighted to announce that the following Modern Middle Eastern Studies students have been selected for initiation into Phi Beta Kappa this year: Majors: Leah Baxter, Nitin Rao Minors: Samuel Orloff, Rachel Steinig
Events
Egyptian Film Poster Exhibit - Closing Panel
Mohannad Ghawanmeh, Ali Mohsen, Eve Troutt Powell, and moderator Heather Jaber
Rerooted Archive: 100 Years of Syrian-Armenian History
Anoush Baghdassarian, Rebekah Mills, and Ani Schug
Regional and External Politics: Fawaz Gerges and Tim Mitchell
"Social Change and the Global Middle East" Series with the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy
Fawaz Gerges, Tim Mitchell, and moderators Nada Matta and Eileen Ryan
Courses
Course offerings on the Middle East at Penn are rich and multidisciplinary. All are taught by world-renowned scholars in their field with exemplary records of teaching and publishing some of the most innovative research on the Middle East and Islam.