The Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies(MESAAS) announces the passing of the MESAAS Business Manager Gregg Labita on January 2nd, 2021. Gregg was a valued member of the staff with his cheerful presence and professional skills in financial...
Professor Wael Hallaq has been awarded the TÜBA Prize for 2020. The award is given by the Turkish Academy of Science in recognition of innovative and path-breaking scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences. For more information, see...
The Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment has just published a feature on Jennifer Wenzel’s new book, The Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature. For more information, click...
The British Academy welcomes 86 new Fellows to its world-leading Fellowship, in recognition of their outstanding contributions to subjects within the humanities and social sciences. The 86 academics elected include 52 new UK-based Fellows, 30 overseas academics...
Professor Sarah bin Tyeer has been awarded the Hettleman Junior Faculty Grant by the Office of the Provost. The award is for her project, Canons and Empires: Tensions in Arabic Literary History. For more information, see...
Rym Bettaieb received the Provost’s Innovative Course Design Award to develop the Shahid Listening website. The goal of this project is to provide Columbia Arabic students with authentic listening resources accompanied by a guided learning strategy. The project...
