Congratulations to MES Class of 2013!
12 seniors will be graduating this year with a concentration in Middle East Studies. We’d like to thank them for being a part of the Middle East Studies community at Brown, and we wish them all the best for their future endeavors! >>>
Assem Abu Hatab Awarded Distinguished Scholar Award
Visiting Research Fellow at the Watson Institute Assem Abu Hatab is this year’s recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development. He spoke on May 16 at our MES Luncheon Seminar >>>
Undergraduate Paper Series Submissions
The MES Undergraduate Paper Series is a forum for students to share their independent research work and join an interdisciplinary exploration of the Middle East. The priority deadline for Fall 2013 presentations is May 20, 2013 >>>
Op-Ed by Nihad Sirees in The New York Times
A moving Op-Ed “A Song of Lament for Syria,” by Nihad Sirees appeared in the print and online editions of The New York Times on April 27, 2013. Sirees is a fellow at the International Writers Project at Brown University and a winner of the 2013 English PEN award for best writing in translation. He is also the author of the novels “The Silence and the Roar” and “The North Winds” >>>
Elias Muhanna Awarded 2012 Bruce D. Craig Prize for Mamluk Studies
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Middle East Studies Elias Muhanna has been awarded the 2012 Bruce D. Craig Prize for Mamluk Studies for his dissertation: “Encyclopaedism in the Mamluk Period: The Composition of Shihāb al-Dīn al-Nuwayrī’s (d. 1333) Nihāyat al-Arab fī Funūn al-Adab”. >>>
Beshara Doumani Interviews Yasser Munif
Beshara Doumani, director of the Middle East Studies at Brown University, interviewed Emerson University Professor Yasser Munif about the Syrian conflict’s causes, current situation, and possible future. Click for more information and to listen to the interview >>>
New Member of MES: Faiz Ahmed (History)
Islamic Legal Historian Faiz Ahmed joins Brown’s History Department in Fall 2013. His primary research focuses on the “socio-legal” history of the Ottoman empire, Iran, and Afghanistan, with particular attention to students, scholars, and constitutional movements in the 19th century. >>>
