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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".(EVENT RECORDING) A Dialogue on Middle East Cinema
The Middle East Center of the University of Pennsylvania was honored to host five incredible filmmakers from across the Middle East on March 23, 2021 for the event Five Degrees of Separation: A Dialogue on Middle East Cinema in 2021. Meta Mazaj of Penn's Cinema Studies Department moderated a discussion between Iran Behrouzi, Hisham Bizri, Nadav Lapid, Tolga Ornek, and(EVENT RECORDING) Graphic Histories: Understanding the Middle East and Africa Through Comics
On March 4, 2021 the Middle East Center was proud to host Paraska Tolan, Trevor Getz, Maryanne Rhett, and Nick Sousanis in an event titled Graphic Histories: Understanding the Middle East and Africa through Comics. Trevor Getz discussed his graphic history Abina and the Important Men based on an 1876 court transcript of a West African woman naMad Poets Society - An Interview with Dr. Mbarek Sryfi
The Middle East Center is excited to share this tribute to Dr. Mbarek Sryfi's poem "Fragments". In his interview with the Mad Poets Society, Professor Sryfi shares insight into his experiences and motivations writing poetry as a lecturer in foreign languages.Congratulations to Professor Huda Fakhreddine on her new book, "The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice"!
Professor Fakhreddine's book, "The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice" launches this week! It examines one of the most controversial poetic forms in Arabic: the Arabic prose poem. It also explores:
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