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Announcements
MELC Summer Study Abroad: Arabic Language and Culture in Morocco!
January 9, 2026
Aria Fani Awarded the MLA Roth Translation Award for 2025
December 30, 2025
Lillian McCabe Recognized with Honorable Mention for the Kerr Dissertation Award at MESA
December 1, 2025
Translating Enchantment: Journeys of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s (d. 1210)
Book of the Hidden Secret
October 14, 2025
Corinna Nichols selected to receive the Graduate School’s 2025 Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Humanities & Fine Arts
June 27, 2025
Aria Fani awarded René Wellek Prize for Best Book in Comparative Literature
June 17, 2025
Successful Launch of the New Arabic Language and Culture Association
May 22, 2025
MELC Major Remi Alidon Awarded Bonderman Fellowship
May 20, 2025
New Publication Highlights Iranian Poetry in Translation
May 19, 2025
MELC to Host Second Iraj Khademi Residency November 2025
April 23, 2025
MELC minor, Griffin Hehmeyer selected for the 2025 Husky 100!
April 22, 2025
From the Chair
February 21, 2025
MELC Updates 2024-2025
February 18, 2025
Study Abroad in Morocco
December 30, 2024
Iraj Khademi Residency Celebrates the Diverse Geography of Persian Literature
November 18, 2024
UW undergraduate Adrian Brunke awarded the
Redhouse Best Progress in the Turkish Language Award
November 14, 2024
Book Launch | Reading Across Borders: Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism | Prof. Aria Fani in conversation with Anna Learn
October 21, 2024
MELC Persian and Iranian Studies Presents: The Inaugural Cycle of the Iraj Khademi Residency in Persian Literature
September 26, 2024
MELC Search: Assistant Teaching Professor - Persian Language and Culture
September 17, 2024
Remembering Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi
September 16, 2024
Prof. Fani’s First Book to be Published in Iran
August 30, 2024
MELC to Inaugurate Iraj Khademi Residency in November
July 23, 2024
ALTA to offer a translator of Persian literature prestigious fellowship
July 16, 2024
Hajar Hussaini Wins Mo Habib Translation Prize in Persian Literature
June 25, 2024
Global Business Center Awards Grant for Persian Business Language Curriculum
May 16, 2024
Announcing a New Book by Prof. Amina Moujtahid
April 12, 2024
Launch of the Global Literary Studies Major
April 10, 2024
Events in the Turkish and Ottoman Studies Program
March 7, 2024
MELC Updates 2023-2024
February 26, 2024
New Faculty in MELC 2023-2024
February 21, 2024
Afrassiabi Lecture Pushes against Boundaries of Persian and Iranian Studies
February 21, 2024
From the Chair
February 20, 2024
MELC Summer Study Abroad: Arabic Language and Culture in Morocco!
January 6, 2024
Israeli Writers and Writing after October 7
December 28, 2023
Alum awarded the Middle East Medievalists Book Prize
November 27, 2023
Student Spotlight: Svetlana Ostroverkhova
October 26, 2023
Call to Poetry Translators: Second Cycle of Mo Habib Translation Prize
September 6, 2023
A Novel Prize for Persian Translation
August 21, 2023
Announcing the Winner of the Inaugural Mo Habib Translation Prize
June 5, 2023
Updates in MELC Digital Humanities: the Svoboda Diaries Project
May 22, 2023
Call for Applications: The Iraj Khademi Residency in Persian Literature at the UW
May 11, 2023
A Conversation with Jamal Gabobe - Somali-American Poet
May 5, 2023
MELC minor Anaëlle Enders awarded the prestigious President’s Medalist Award
March 1, 2023
MELC Faculty and Student Updates
February 27, 2023
MELC Masters Students 2022-2023
February 27, 2023
New Faces in MELC
February 27, 2023
Shahrzad Shams Retirement
February 27, 2023
Department Name Change
February 27, 2023
Letter from the Chair
February 27, 2023
Seattle’s First Iranian Theater Company - “The Forgotten History of Mastaneh”
February 6, 2023
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