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...
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...
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...
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...
Sarah bin Tyeer has been awarded a Global Humanities grant for the year 2018-2019 for a collaborative project titled “Conceptions and Configurations of the Arabic Literary Canon” along with Dr.Claire Gallien. This project endeavors to look at the...
The announcement noted: “The Manuscripts of the Muslim World project—supported by a Digitizing Hidden Collections grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), which is made possible by funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation—will...
