Faculty News and Annoucements

Prof. Khatchig Mouradian was awarded the 2022 Aronian Book Prize for Excellence in Armenian Studies for his book The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918. Earlier, the book had also received the 2021 Syrian Studies Association “Honourable Mention.” Details: https://naasr.org/blogs/news/naasr-announces-winners-of-2022-dr-sona-aronian-armenian-studies-book-prizes

The book launch for Timsal Masud’s edited three-volume collection of Mir Anis’s poetry, Anis: 111 Marsiye, took place on December 10, 2022, at the Islamic Education Center in Chicago. The first speaker, Professor Peter Knapczyk, a scholar of Urdu literature from Wake Forest University, briefly introduced Urdu marsiya’s development. Drawing on 16th, 17th,

May Ahmar’s co-edited volume Digital Orality: Vernacular Writing in Online Spaces, was published by Springer/Palgrave Mcmillan in November 2022. The volume showcases innovative research on dialectal, vernacular, and other forms of “oral,” speech-like writing in digital spaces. The shift from a predominantly print culture to a digital culture is shaping people’s identities and relationships

Dr. Rym Bettaieb was nominated by Senior Vice Provost Soulaymane Kachani to contribute to a University guide featuring exemplary faculty innovations in teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her contribution is now featured in “Teaching Transformations: Faculty Reflections and Insights on Pandemic Practices,” a digital guide. This guide highlights

Islam and New Directions in World Literature, (Edinburgh University Press), featuring stellar contributions by MESAAS faculty: Muhsin al-Musawi, Gil Anidjar and Hamid Dabashi.   Book cover