NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
November 17, 2018
Muhsin al-Musawi awarded the 2018 Kuwait Prize for Arts and Literature
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 Professor al-Musawi’s “research on critical studies of the rich Arabic cultural
October 1, 2018
Debashree Mukherjee has been awarded a Global Humanities grant
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 “ecology” as methodology as well as material reality, both fundamentally predicated
September 17, 2018
Allison Busch awarded the Vishwa Hindi Samman award
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 Hindi Award) was given to Professor Busch to honor
April 1, 2018
Sarah bin Tyeer has been awarded a Global Humanities grant
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 conceptions and configurations of the Arabic literary canon as it was conceived
January 1, 2018
$500,000 grant awarded to catalog and digitize Columbia’s collection of manuscripts and paintings from the Golden Age of Islam
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 provide digital access to 576 Islamic manuscripts and 827 paintings that have previously been largely