Archive: News Story

• An interview with AIS Alumnus, Enass Khansa on Editing a Series of Classical Arabic Texts for Young Readers

  As Editor of new Library of Arabic Literature (LAL) Young Readers Series, Dr. Khansa gave an interview with Arab Lit Quarterly. You may read Dr. Khansa's full interview with co-editor, Bilal Orfali,

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• Former MA Student, Miguel Merino, Publishes his Thesis

  The Department of Arabic & Islamic Studies congratulates our former graduate student, Miguel Merino, who has recently published his MA thesis on the recent work of the renowned Bahraini Poet, Qassim

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• Congratulations to Professor Al Ali on Receiving a CIBER Fellowship for a Business Language Case Development

  Please join the us in congratulating Dr. Ghayda Al Ali, an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department, on receiving the GW-CIBER Business Language Case Study Fellowship Award for the year 2020-20

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• AIS Welcomes Two New Faculty Members

  The Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies is pleased to announce that Dr. Rodrigo Adem and Dr. Sara Omar will be joining our faculty as tenure-line assistant professors in Fall 2020. Dr. Adem (

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• Dr. Ahmad Alqassas Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure

  Please join the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies in congratulating Dr. Ahmad Alqassas on his promotion to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure. Congratulations, Dr. Alqassas!

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• Amani Aloufi Receives Teaching Assistant Award

  Please join the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies in congratulating Amani Aloufi, Arabic TA and PHD student in Linguistics Department, on receiving a Teaching Assistant Award. Congratulati

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• Congratulations to Former AIS Graduate Students on Their New Positions

  Please join the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies in congratulating our former graduate students on their new positions. Heba Arafa - Post Doctoral Fellowship, Ismaili Institute - LondonAnn

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• CASA Fellows 2019-2020 – Congratulations to Michael Battalia, Kendall Dorland, Rebekah Grafton, & Sam Riccardi

  The Department of Arabic & Islamic Studies congratulates the 2018-2019 Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) Fellows who are Georgetown University alumni. Michael Battalia received his M.S. in For

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• Channel 4 adapts Prof. Colla’s novel as television series

  It’s not common for books by Georgetown faculty to get adapted for the screen, but Prof. Elliott Colla’s 2014 genre novel Baghdad Central was already an unusual step for a scholar. Now that it has be

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• Congratulations to PhD Student, Tesneem Alkiek, on Her Dissertation Fellowship

  Please join us in congratulating PhD student, Tesneem Alkeik, on receiving the AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship for the academic year 2020-2021. AAUW’s Dissertation Fellowship is part of the 

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