Graduate student Pamela Klasova awarded grant

Graduate student Pamela Klasova has been awarded a one-year fellowship (August 2016–August 2017) at the Orient-Institut in Beirut (OIB), which is a part of the Max Weber Foundation of German Humanities Institutes Abroad.

During her fellowship, she will be finishing her dissertation on the oratory of Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf al-Thaqafī and his role in establishing Arabic as a tool of empire-building under the Umayyads.

Congratulations!