Faculty News and Annoucements

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

Khatchig Mouradian’s The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918 has received the Syrian Studies Association ‘Honourable Mention 2021.’ From the announcement: “This book offers us an unusual approach to the history of the Armenian Genocide. Turning away from the images of the helpless and passive

Professor Debashree Mukherjee’s book Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City has been shortlisted for the Modernist Studies Association’s First Book Prize. From the announcement: “Each year, the Modernist Studies Association seeks nominations for its Book Prize, awarded to a book published in the previous year. A panel of judges determines