Archive: News Story

• Professor Felicitas Opwis presents "A History of Maslaha: From Tool to System"

  Professor Felicitas Opwis participated at the "Bien-être et charité musulman -- discours et pratiques" conference in Fribourg, Switzerland on Oct. 1 2016. Her presentation addressed the histoy of Mas

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• Pamela Klasova contributes to conferences, archaeological dig

  AIS Graduate Student Pamela Klasova participated in two conferences and an archaeological dig in 2016.  From April 15-17, 2016 she participated in the Workshop on Holistic Approaches to the Study

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• Ghayda al-Ali receives awards, presents research

  Dr. Ghayda al-Ali, an Associate Teaching Professor in the department, has received the following awards:  ITEL Cohort Award: Engaging by Design: Games, Simulations, and Online Learning Modules for the

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• Recent research and publications by Professor Suzanne Stetkevych

  Suzanne Stetkevych, Sultan Qaboos Professor of Arabic & Islamic Studies, was on sabbatical leave for Spring semester 2016. She spent Jan-Feb 2016 as a Research Affiliate of the American Research Cente

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• Abdul Rahman Chamseddine presents research in Dubai and Beirut

  AIS graduate student Abdul Rahman Chamseddine presented research at several conferences in 2016, including: "The Image of Heritage in Tawfiq al-Hakim's The Return of the Spirit," at the 5th Intern

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• AIS graduate student Anny Gaul presents at conference in Beirut

  AIS graduate student Anny Gaul presented her research at the conference Insatiable Appetite: Food as a Cultural Signifier. It was organized by the Arab-German Young Academy and hosted by the American

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• Pamela Klasova and Rosabel Ansari present at MEHAT, University of Chicago

  Two Arabic and Islamic Studies graduate students presented their research at the 31st annual Middle East History and Theory (MEHAT) Conference at the University of Chicago, May 6-7, 2016. Rosabel

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• Congratulations to AIS graduates

  Congratulations to the Arabic majors from the Georgetown College class of 2016: Zaynab Malik received the Arabic Award at the Tropaia Ceremony. At the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics (FLL) ceremo

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• Graduate student Nicholas Mangialardi presents research in US and UK

  AIS graduate student Nicholas Mangialardi presented research at two conferences this spring.  In March, he presented "'From the Street, for the Street, in the Street': Egyptian Rap in the Mafshakh

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• AIS participates at American Comparative Literature Association

  From March 18-20, 2016, several AIS scholars participated in a seminar as a part of the American Comparative Literature Association annual meeting. The seminar, "The Arabic Qasida: An Aesthetics for t

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