Jennifer Wenzel, Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Professor of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, has been awarded the Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award for 2022-23 Within the Arts and Sciences, Columbia recognizes the excellence of...
MESAAS is pleased to announce that Prof. Hamid Dabashi has won the Hamid Dabashi is the recipient of the Lionel Trilling Award for his book The End of Two Illusions: Islam after the West. The announcement may be read...
Debashree Mukherjee has been elected to the Board of Directors of SCMS—the Society for Cinema and Media Studies—the leading scholarly organization in the United States dedicated to promoting and supporting the study of film and media. View the announcement here...
The Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University is pleased to announce its annual Graduate Student Conference on the 20th and 21st of April, 2023. This conference is a space for graduate scholars, activists,...
As part of a series of intellectual engagements between January 8 and 10 (2023), Wael Hallaq delivered the distinguished Dean’s Foresight Lecture at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, entitled “What Is Post-Orientalism?”. The lecture may be accessed below...
