2022-10-16
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Mabrook (Congratulations!) to Dr. Eman Saadah and the UIUC Arabic Debate team who competed in last week's Arabic Debate at Stanford University!
Team member Suad Al Jawhari received first place at the national level for the AFL (Arabic as a Foreign Language) category, and the UIUC team was ranked # 2 nationally...
- 2020-12-02 - Executive Director Jerry Davila has announced that Professor Waïl Hassan has been appointed Director of the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies beginning January, 2021. Dr. Hassan is a Professor in the Program in Comparative and World Literature and the Department of English. His scholarship, which focuses on modern Arabic literatures, includes the books Immigrant...
- 2020-11-15 - Department of Education Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Languages (UISFL) program awarded to the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (CSAMES) for the 2020-2022 academic years. The funding amount is $99,042 with cost-share contributions totaling $133,559 in Year 1 and $99,932 with matching funds of $128,494 in Year 2. Through CSAMES’ administration, the...
- 2020-08-15 - In this book Professor Livny presents a new argument for conceptualizing religion as both a personal belief system and collective identity. For more information, go here.
- 2020-06-15 - Director and Lecturer of the Turkish Language Program Dr. Ayse Ozcan has been integrating U of I into the Mellon Collaborative Partners Project, which is carried out by Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning of the University of Chicago Language Center. Dr. Ozcan attended the 4-day ACTFL OPI (August 2018) and the Test-Design & Development Workshops (August 2019) to be one of the new...
- 2020-06-15 - Professor Ghassan Moussawi's new book is the first comprehensive study to employ the lens of queer lives in the Arab World to understand everyday life disruptions, conflicts, and violence. From Temple University Press. For more information and to order, go here.
- 2020-05-30 - These awards include the 2019 L. Carl Brown AIMS Book Prize in North African Studies; Honorable Mention for the 2019 Nikki Keddie Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association; Silver Medal for the 2020 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies from the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame. The book has also been translated into Spanish as...
- 2020-04-15 - CSAMES Associate Director Dr. Angela Williams has published the first book dedicated to female rap artists from the Middle East and North Africa and their representations of womanhood and girlhood. In Hip Hop Harem: Women, Rap and Representation in the Middle East (Peter Lang), Dr. Williams explores the themes of liberation and agency expressed by seven female...
- 2020-04-15 - Kenneth Cuno, professor of the modern Middle East, received the Illinois Student Government Teaching Excellence Award. This award is given by students to recognize and thank excellent instructors at the University of Illinois. We enthusiastically join his students in honoring and congratulating him! To read the full story from the Illinois News Bureau, go...
- 2020-03-09 - Professor Wail Hassan was selected as a fellow to work on a book project, "Arab Brazil: Literature Culture and Orientalism." For more information, go here.
- 2020-02-15 - The Tārīkh al-fattāsh is one of the most important and celebrated sources for the history of pre-colonial West Africa, yet it has confounded scholars for decades with its inconsistencies and questions surrounding its authorship. In this study, Professor Nobili examines and challenges existing theories on the chronicle, arguing that much of what we have presumed about the work is deeply...
- 2019-05-01 - The Fred M. Gottheil Faculty Award was presented in May 2019 by the Department of Economics at UIUC to Hadi Esfahani, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.