News
(EVENT RECORDING) Blackness in the Middle East
On September 16, 2020 -- the Middle East Center of the University of Pennsylvania engaged in an important conversation on blackness in the Middle East.
Fenjan: Undergraduate Journal of Middle East Studies
Congratulations to Fenjan -- Penn's undergraduate journal on the Middle East and North Africa for their first published issue! Click here to read the Summer 2020 issue
(EVENT RECORDING) Coronavirus Crisis: A Historic Conversation Between Iranian and American Experts
Since the beginning of the global coronavirus pandemic, at least 17 million people have been infected worldwide, and more than 600,000 have lost their lives to the disease.
Mourning Amy Kaplan and Tajmeh Assefi-Shirazi
The Middle East Center has been devastated to hear in recent days of the passing of two its beloved affiliated faculty members, Professor Amy Kaplan and Dr Tajmeh Assefi-Shirazi.
Philadelphia Arabic Newspaper Launched by Friends, Peace, and Sanctuary
The Middle East Center is very excited to spread this. The following announcement was shared with the MEC by the Friends, Peace, and Sanctuary Journal.
Congratulations to our 2020-2021 FLAS winners!
Congratulations to our 2020-2021 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship Recipients!Congratulations to our 2020 MEC Contest Winners!
See for the winners of the 2020 MEC essay, translation, and photography contests.Rawad Wehbe and Ali Noori Receive Janet Lee Stevens Award for Arabic and Islamic Studies
Congratulations to Rawad Wehbe and Ali Noori, the recipients of this year's Janet Lee Stevens Award for Arabic and Islamic Studies!
Defying Transience: Urban Landscapes in Dubai and Abu Dhabi
We welcomed Yasser Elsheshtawy, who presented a talk that examined temporality and transience as an urban condition in the cities of Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
Congratulations, Dr. Matthew Sharp!
Congratulations to Dr. Matthew Sharp! He successfully defended his PhD dissertation: “On Behalf of the Sultan: The Late Ottoman State and the Cultivation of British and American Converts to Islam” on this day (committee: Dr.
Events
Ethnicity and Conflict in Iraq's Oil City
A History of Kirkuk
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