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A new Open Access collection of newspapers from the Middle East and North Africa is now available to us from Eastview and the Center for Research Libraries. Content in the collection is generally in Arabic language, but also includes some content in English and French. The newspapers cover the period from the late nineteenth century through the …
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Award applications are now open! African language FLAS Awards are funded by the U.S. Department of Education and administered by the African Studies Program to assist students in acquiring African language and area studies competencies. WHO IS ELIGIBLE?Both undergraduate and graduate students who are US citizens, nationals, or permanent residents. FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS …
U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program Applications are now being accepted for the U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program at http://www.clscholarship.org/apply Applications are due Tuesday, November 19, 2019 by 8:00pm EST. The CLS Program is a fully-funded intensive overseas language and cultural immersion program for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at U.S. …
The list of courses that would count towards the Middle East Studies (MES) Certificate is now available. Go to our courses page at https://mideast.wisc.edu/courses/
In her new book Seeking Legitimacy Why Arab Autocracies Adopt Women’s Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Aili Mari Tripp explains why autocratic leaders in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria embraced more extensive legal reforms of women’s rights than their Middle Eastern counterparts. The study challenges existing accounts that rely primarily on religiosity to explain the adoption …
RACE, RELIGION, AND REVISIONISM: WHY THE MIDDLE AGES MATTER NOW 5:30 PM, SEP 11 Wisconsin Historical Society, 816 State Street With public violence increasingly on display in our society, history too is under siege. This Humanities NOW panel asks where we stand, as scholars and as a community, on the issues of the Middle Ages …
Ten students are graduating in 2019 with Middle East Studies (MES) certificates. They include: Anna Ambrosi (majors in Legal Studies and Political Science); Mica Beckmann-White (International Studies and Spanish); Justin Brewer (History); Thomas Augusta Hersman (History); Sean Jackett (International Studies, Accelerated Masters in International Public Affairs) Fernanda Martinez Rodriguez (Art History and Religious Studies); Ollie …
Four UW–Madison professors affiliated as core faculty of the Middle East Studies Program (MESP) were recently recognized with awards and fellowships. Nevine El Nossery, MESP chair and associate professor of the departments of French & Italian and African Cultural Studies, has been selected for an appointment as a Vilas Associate. The Vilas Associates Competition recognizes …
Kemal H. Karpat, the former chair of Ottoman and Turkish Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Emeritus Distinguished Professor of History, passed away in Madison, Wisconsin, on February 20, 2019, at the age of 96. On February 25, 2019, there was a state funeral in Istanbul under the auspices and attendance of the Turkish …
Daniel Stolz’s book, The Lighthouse and the Observatory: Islam, Science, and Empire in Late Ottoman Egypt, was recently featured in the book forum by The Immanent Frame on Science and the Soul: New Inquiries into Islamic Ethics. The Immanent Frame is a critically acclaimed online site that publishes interdisciplinary perspectives on religion, secularism, and the public sphere, in conjunction …