Faculty News and Annoucements

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 or at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFf1KBHNDI4

Join us for our New Book Series event honoring Radio for the Millions: Hindi-Urdu Broadcasting Across Borders by Isabel Huacuja Alonso. Radio for the Millions examines the history of Hindi-Urdu radio during the height of its popularity from the 1930s to the 1980s, showing how it created transnational communities of listeners. Drawing on a rich collection

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