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In Memoriam: Dan Ben-Amos
The Middle East Center is saddened to hear of the death of Professor Dan Ben-Amos of the Department of Near East Languages and Civilizations. A longtime member of our affiliated faculty, Professor Ben-Amos was a highly respected scholar of Jewish and African folklore, as well as a kind and beloved member of our community.Fenjan Summer 2022 Issue Out Now!
Click here to read the new issue!Congrats to the MEC's new Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Lacy Feigh!
Dr. Lacy Feigh is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Middle East Center. She completed her dissertation, entitled “Abyssinia to Ethiopia: Slavery, Race, and the Transition from Empire to Nation, 1855-1957” in Penn’s History Department in 2022.The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation 2022 Community Partnership Grant Announced for The Dido Problem Exhibition!
Penn’s Middle East Center will collaborate with Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture and Past Present Projects to develop community workshops led by German-Jordanian artist duo Areej Huniti and Eliza Goldox (Huniti Goldox), through which Al-Bustan’s constituents will create a site-specific installation to accompany Huniti Goldox’s film The Dido Problem, to be sited as an immersive experience in the histoCongrats to Austin Cooper for Successfully Defending his PhD Dissertation!
Today, Austin Cooper of the Department of History and Sociology of Science successfully defended his dissertation on “Saharan Fallout: French Explosions in Algeria and the Politics of Nuclear Risk during African Decolonization (1960-66)".MEC Student Awards 2022 - CONGRATS!
The Middle East Center would like to congratulate the following students:David Kazanjian and Rudra Sil awarded for their distinguished teaching in the School of Arts and Sciences! Read more below.
It gives us great pleasure to announce the recipients of the 2022 awards for distinguished teaching in the School of Arts and Sciences; including our very own Rudra Sil (Political Science) who won the Ira H.(EVENT RECORDING) The Outlaw Ocean Project: The Migration Crisis off the Coast of Libya
On March 29, 2022, the Middle East Center was honored to host Ian Urbina, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and director of the Outlaw Ocean Project. See below for a description of the event, as well as a link to the recording.Event Description
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