Faculty News and Annoucements

MESAAS Graduate Student Conference 2022: Borders and Boundaries    Dear all, The Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University is pleased to announce its annual Graduate Student Conference to be held on 24–25 March 2022. This conference is a space for graduate students to

Muhsin al-Musawi has been awarded the King Faisal Prize for Arabic language and literature. For more information, click here: https://kingfaisalprize.org/ar/professor-muhsin-al-musawi/

Wael Hallaq was elected an Honorary Member to the The Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) in December 2021. See here for details: Wael B. Hallaq | Turkish Academy of Sciences (tuba.gov.tr)

We, the faculty of the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies(MESAAS) at Columbia University, would like to express our strong disapproval of the efforts of the university administration to intimidate our striking graduate students by threatening to hold up their teaching appointments in the spring. We consider these tactics unproductive

The MESAAS M.A. Program is accepting applications. For more information about the program, click here: https://mesaas.columbia.edu/graduate-program/ma-program/ GSAS Application is here: https://apply.gsas.columbia.edu/apply