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Professor Suzanne Stetkevych Receives Provost Career Research Achievement Award

Please join us in congratulating Professor Suzanne Stetkevych for her receipt of Georgetown University’s Provost Career Research Achievement Award this November,!…

November 13, 2023

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Dr. Sara Omar Receives the Georgetown Humanities Junior Faculty Book Manuscript Workshop Grant

Please join the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies in congratulating Professor Sara Omar for being awarded the Georgetown Humanities Initiative Junior Faculty Book…

June 3, 2022

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Congratulations to PhD Candidate Eriko Okamoto on receiving the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship

Please join AIS in congratulating PhD candidate, Eriko Okamoto, who was recently awarded a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship! You can read more about her…

May 3, 2022

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Dr. Stetkevych Receives the King Faisal Prize

Please join the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies in congratulating Dr. Suzanne Stetkevych on receiving the King Faisal Prize in the category of Arabic Language and…

January 7, 2022

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IN MEMORIAM: JAROSLAV STETKEVYCH (1929-2021)

Jaroslav Stetkevych, Professor Emeritus of Arabic Literature of the University of Chicago and Research Affiliate of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Georgetown…

June 21, 2021

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Congratulations to AIS Alumna Rosabel Ansari on Receiving the Global Medieval Studies Award for Academic Excellence

Please join us in congratulating our PhD graduate, Rosabel Ansari, on being awarded the Global Medieval Studies Award for Academic Excellence for her PhD Dissertation entitled,…

May 17, 2021

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Congratulations to Professor Ahmad Alqassas on the publication of his new book on Arabic Polarity Sensitivity

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Ahmad Alqassas, an Associate Professor in the Department, on the publication of his new book on Arabic polarity sensitivity, now in print…

May 3, 2021

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Congratulations to Professor Ahmad Alqassas on Receiving Two Competitive Research Awards

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Ahmad Alqassas, an Associate Professor in the Department, on receiving the 2021 FLL Summer Academic Grant, and the 2021 Georgetown University…

April 23, 2021

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Congratulations to PhD Student Mohammad Fakhreddine on Receiving an ARCE Grant

Please join us in congratulating our PhD student, Mohammad Fakhreddine, on being awarded a pre-dissertation research travel grant from the American Research Center in Egypt )…

March 17, 2021

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Congratulations to PhD Candidate, Irene Kirchner, on Her Recent Publication

The Department of Arabic & Islamic Studies would like to congratulate PhD candidate, Irene Kirchner, for her recent article publication in BRILL. The full article, entitled &…

February 16, 2021