News Archive

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MELC Faculty and Student News 2025-2026
At the MEC talk
Friends of MELC Spotlight 2026: Translation Studies and the Middle East Center
Students in NMES
A Snapshot of Graduate Study in MELC (2026)
Students in Morocco during the 2025 study abroad in front of a landmark
Morocco and Enchantment: Arabic and Islamic Studies 2026
Cover of In the Shadow of the Holocaust
From Shadows of the Holocaust to the Streets of Iran: Stories of Survival and Resistance
View from Tel Azekah towards the southwest
Stories from the Ancient Middle East (HBANES 2026)
Cover of Shape of Extinction: Poems by Bijun Jalali
Award-Winning Persian Poetry in Translation: The Shape of Extinction and Elegies of the Earth
Zuhal Olcay with the audience at her talk
Exploring Complex Identities: Turkish and Ottoman Studies 2026
An open air church built by Lalibela in Ehiopia
Horn of Africa Studies 2026
The MELC Department Faculty
From the Chair (2026)
Amina in Morocco
MELC Summer Study Abroad: Arabic Language and Culture in Morocco!
Cover of Shape of Extinction
Aria Fani Awarded the MLA Roth Translation Award for 2025
Lillian McCabe
Lillian McCabe Recognized with Honorable Mention for the Kerr Dissertation Award at MESA
Participants in the Event
Second Cycle of Persian Literature Residency Concludes with Vibrant
Community Events
uhal Oclay Melike Yucel Koc

Zuhal Olcay, Acclaimed Performing Artist from Turkey, in a Conversation with MELC Professor Melike Yücel-Koç 
Melike
MELC Prof. Melike Yücel Koç Presents on Immigrant Narratives and American Identity at the OHA Conference
Reflection: Turkish 101/511 Session at TurkFest 2025
Reflection: Turkish 101/511 Session at TurkFest 2025
McCabe talk
Translating Enchantment: Journeys of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s (d. 1210) Book of the Hidden Secret
Corinna Nichols
Corinna Nichols selected to receive the Graduate School’s 2025 Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Humanities & Fine Arts
Aria Fani
Aria Fani awarded René Wellek Prize for Best Book in Comparative Literature
Hamza
Prof. Hamza Zafer featured in “Ways of Knowing Episode 3: Ge’ez"
Arabic Club
Successful Launch of the New Arabic Language and Culture Association
Remi Alidon
MELC Major Remi Alidon Awarded Bonderman Fellowship
Cover of Shape of Extinction
New Publication Highlights Iranian Poetry in Translation
Oscar
Poetry as Political Currency: UW Alumni Explores Ottoman Literary Traditions in Walter G. Andrews Memorial Lecture Series