News
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 SteinigA big Congratulations to Yasemin Celikkol for successfully defending her dissertation!
Yasemin Celikkol recently defended her dissertation entitled, "Turkish TV Series in Bulgaria and Russia: The Terribly Charming Turk in the Global Media Matrix" at the Annenberg School of Communication.Congratulations to Professor Troutt Powell!
It gives us great pleasure to announce that Professor Eve Troutt Powell has been awarded the Ira H. Abrams Memorial Award for Distinguished Teaching. We applaud Professor Troutt Powell's extraordinary commitment to the education of our students.Congratulations to Zain Mian!
We are proud to announce that Zain Mian has been awarded the Deans Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students! We applaud Zain's extraordinary commitment to the education of our students.Congratulations to Taylor Nelson!
The Middle East Center is proud to report that CUREJ (Penn’s College Undergraduate Research Electronic Journal) has published Taylor Nelson’s thesis entitled "North Africa and the Making of American Psychological Warfare and Propaganda".
Events
Science and the Middle East
Harun Küçük, Director of the Middle East Center and Assistant Professor of History and Sociology of Science
From Khurasan to Baghdad via Maragheh: Elite Scholarly and Administrative Circles in Mongol Iran
Hadi Jorati, Assistant Professor of History & Near Eastern Studies at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Social Change and Contentious Politics: Joel Beinin and Rashid Khalidi
"Social Change and the Global Middle East" Series with the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy
Joel Beinin, Rashid Khalidi, and moderator Sean Yom
Courses
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