by mesaas | Jan 17, 2019 | All News |
Taoufik Ben-Amor, Gordon Gray Jr Senior Lecturer in Arabic Studies, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies has been awarded the Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award: The award honors faculty for their ability to engage, challenge and inspire students in the...
by mesaas | Jan 10, 2019 | Publications |
The Shahnameh, an epic poem recounting the foundation of Iran across mythical, heroic, and historical ages, is the beating heart of Persian literature and culture. Composed by Abu al-Qasem Ferdowsi over a thirty-year period and completed in the year 1010, the epic has...
by mesaas | Nov 17, 2018 | All News |
Muhsin al-Musawi, Professor of Arabic Literature in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, was awarded the 2018 Kuwait Prize for Arts and Literature. The Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences announced the award, citing...
by mesaas | Oct 1, 2018 | All News |
Debashree Mukherjee has been awarded a Global Humanities grant for the year 2018-2019 for a collaborative project titled “Thinking the Ecological in Media Studies,” along with Dr. Ying Qian (EALAC) and Dr. Brian Larkin (Anthropology). The project conceives of...
by mesaas | Sep 17, 2018 | All News |
Allison Busch, Associate Professor of Hindi Literature in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, was awarded the Vishwa Hindi Samman by the Government of India, through through the World Hindi Conference. The Vishwa Hindi Samman (the World...
