by mesaas | Mar 5, 2026 | All News |
Click on the link to view MESAAS Summer classes: Summer 2026 Department: Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
by mesaas | Mar 4, 2026 | Publications |
Catalogue of “Adabistan Library” in Two Volumes Syed Masud Hasan Rizvi (1893–1975), a distinguished scholar of Persian and Urdu literature, was associated with Lucknow University as the Head of the Department of Persian. Masud Hasan Rizvi also collected rare...
by mesaas | Feb 19, 2026 | Publications |
In her memoir My Father, the Messiah, Gil Hochberg traces a father-daughter relationship as it transforms across decades—from intense closeness in childhood to a fraught distance as Hochberg’s father Yossi becomes increasingly convinced that he is the Messiah. After...
by mesaas | Feb 17, 2026 | Publications |
Today, extraordinary wealth seems to arrive from nowhere. The trick of conjuring this unearned wealth is, in fact, the key to understanding capitalism’s origins and a clue to why the catastrophe of climate collapse is upon us: value is created by consuming the...
by mesaas | Feb 10, 2026 | All News |
Professor Mahmood Mamdani has been chosen as the recipient of the 2026 Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Vanguard Award. The Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Vanguard Award is bestowed annually upon individuals who have made significant contributions to social...