Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies

Course Offerings

Academic Calendar List of holidays and administrative dates for the academic year

Al-Kitaab Series: Textbook, Textbook Companion Website, Additional Language Resources from GU Press

CanvasAccess your courses, post assignments, and grades, email students enrolled in your classes

Department Graduate Student Handbook (Updated February 2022): Degree requirements and departmental guidelines.
Graduate School Bulletin: Graduate School requirements, protocol and procedures.
PhD Post-Coursework Checklist: PhD students, please use this as a guide to degree completion once you have completed your coursework requirements.
Petition to Change Program: This form is used to request Advanced Standing, Transfer Credit, Master’s in Passing, Terminal Master’s, Extension of Time, and Leave of Absence.
Comprehensive Exam Committee Approval: To be completed and submitted to the Department in preparation for your Comprehensive Exams.
Language Proficiency Exam Ballot: To be submitted to the Registrar following your Language Comprehensive Exams.
Comprehensive Exam Ballot: To be submitted to the Registrar following your Comprehensive Exams.
Dissertation Proposal: To be submitted to the Graduate School.
Dissertation Cover Sheet
Dissertation Reviewer’s Report: This form must be received by the Graduate School at least one week prior to the defense date.
Dissertation Template
Electronic Dissertation Release: To be submitted to the Graduate School by the dissertation submission deadline.

Senior Honors Thesis: To be submitted along with two copies of thesis proposal and bibliography to the Department Chair.

Campus Map – Locate buildings on campus

Directory – Locate email addresses, office locations and profiles for faculty, staff and students

Facilities – Request repairs on air conditioning, heat, etc. in office

Graduate School – Resource for academic and financial protocol and procedures for graduate students

Library – Main page for Georgetown’s library

Library Selected Resources for Arabic Language, Linguistics, and Literature and Islamic Studies

Office of Undergraduate Admissions – Contact and application information for all students applying for undergraduate admission

Registrar – Request a classroom, see schedule of courses, learn about necessary paperwork

University Bookstore

University Information Services (UIS) – Tech assistance, training programs and software library

AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship
American Fellowships: AAWW
ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowships
AERA Minority Dissertation Fellowship
ARCE Doctoral Fellowship
ARIT American Research Institute in Turkey
American Academy in Rome
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Research
Boren Fellowship
Fellowships, Harvard University
Center for Democracy, Development and Rule of Law (Stanford) Predoctoral Fellowship
Center for Arabic Study Abroad at Harvard CASA 1 Program Fellowship
Charlotte Newcombe Fellowship
Chateaubriand Fellowship in the Humanities
CLIR/ Mellon Fellowship
Cosmos Club Foundation Grant-in-Aid to Young Scholars
Council of American Overseas Research Centers
Critical Language Scholarship
Danforth Center on Religion and Politics (Washington U. in St. Louis)
DAAD Study Scholarship in Germany
Dumbarton Oaks Junior Fellowship
Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Foundation Fellowship
Embassy of France in the US HSS Chateaubriand Fellowship
Ford Dissertation Fellowship
Fulbright US Student Program (Gervase Programs)
Getty Library Research Grant
Ithaca College Pre-Doctoral Diversity Fellowship
Illinois Institute of Technology Fellowships & Scholarships
Jefferson Scholars Foundation – National Fellowship (UVA)
Lake Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Marilyn Yarbrough Dissertation Fellowship (Kenyon College)
Marquette Mitchem Dissertation Fellowship
Michigan Society of Fellows
NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship
Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study Graduate Fellowship
NSF SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG)
Sarah Pettit Doctoral Fellowship (Yale)
School For Advanced Research Weatherhead Fellowship
SSRC Fellowships
United States Institute for Peace (USIP) Grants & Fellowships 
U.S. Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Program
University of London Institute of Historical Research (IHR) Junior Fellowships
Woodrow Wilson Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies