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AIS at Georgetown University Roundtable on Language and Linguistics (GURT)

Two AIS graduate students presented at the 2015 Georgetown University Roundtable on Language and Linguistics (GURT) annual conference. This year’s conference was titled…

September 1, 2015

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Graduate student Abdul Rahman Chamseddine presents at three conferences

Graduate student Abdul Rahman Chamseddine presented papers at three conferences:…

September 1, 2015

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Graduate student Pamela Klasova presents research at UNC-Chapel Hill

Graduate student Pamela Klasova participated in the 12th Annual Duke-UNC Graduate Islamic Studies Conference “Imagining the Beautiful: Theories and Practices of Meaning in…

August 31, 2015

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Graduate student Anny Gaul presents at Harvard

Graduate student Anny Gaul presented a paper at a conference at Harvard. The conference title was The Thousand and One Nights: Sources, Transformations, and the Relationship…

August 31, 2015

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Graduate student Seraj Assi publishes in public media outlets

Graduate Student Seraj Assi has published articles in Haaretz and a letter to the editor of The New York Times. “In Disregard for Bedouin, Israel is Forgetting…

August 31, 2015

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Graduate Student Nabil HageAli presents paper at Oxford

Graduate student Nabil HageAli presented a paper at a conference on Arab Shiʿa and Shiʿism vs. Wilāyat al-Faqīh, held at the Centre for Lebanese Studies, St Anthony’s…

August 30, 2015

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Graduate students receive grants for language study

Graduate student Dilyara Agisheva has been awarded a fellowship from the Center for Arabic Study Abroad for 2015-16. She will be studying Arabic in Cairo throughout the 2015-16…

August 30, 2015

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Graduate Students’ Placement and Postdoctoral Fellowships

Roshan Iqbal will be starting as a tenure track Assistant Professor in the Religious Studies Department at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta this fall (2015). Feriel Bouhafa…

August 30, 2015

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Graduate student Mike Raish publishes article

Graduate student Mike Raish has published his research in an article, “The Acquisition of an Egyptian Phonological Variant by U.S. Students in Cairo.” Foreign Language…

August 30, 2015

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Graduate student Anny Gaul receives research grants

Graduate student Anny Gaul was awarded the 2015 Cherwell Food History Studentship by the American Friends of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. The award included a…

August 30, 2015