Poetry as Political Currency: UW Alumni Explores Ottoman Literary Traditions in Walter G. Andrews Memorial Lecture Series
Deniz Türker Discusses the Legacy of Yıldız Palace in Engaging Talk
Ladino Day Interview with Leigh Bardugo & MELC professor Canan Bolel
Iraj Khademi Residency Celebrates the Diverse Geography of Persian Literature
Book Launch | Reading Across Borders: Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism | Prof. Aria Fani in conversation with Anna Learn
MELC Takes Dawg Days at the Zoo
MELC Persian and Iranian Studies Presents: The Inaugural Cycle of the Iraj Khademi Residency in Persian Literature
Didem Havlioğlu Delivers the 2024 Walter Andrews Memorial Lecture
Events in the Turkish and Ottoman Studies Program
Black Stewards of Early Islamic Lands: The 2024 Ziadeh Lecture
The 2023 Symposium on Indigenous Languages in China and Taiwan
Engaging Academic Events by the Turkish and Ottoman Studies Program
A Week with Rakhshan Bani-E'temad at MELC
Afrassiabi Lecture Pushes against Boundaries of Persian and Iranian Studies
Israeli Writers and Writing after October 7
Updates in MELC Digital Humanities: the Svoboda Diaries Project
A Conversation with Jamal Gabobe - Somali-American Poet
Symposium on Indigenous Languages in China and Taiwan: The Dynamics of Revitalization vs. Devitalization
Contesting the Iranian Revolution: The Green Uprisings
Conversations with Scholars Series: A conversation with Prof. Scott Noegel
MELC Faculty and Student Updates
Turkey in Seattle Oral History Project
Seattle’s First Iranian Theater Company - “The Forgotten History of Mastaneh”
Excavating War: Violence, Power, and Urbanism in Prehistoric Anatolia
MELC’s Inaugural Walter G. Andrews Memorial Lecture Featuring Dr. Michael Pifer
Middle Persian Workshop for MELC Students and Community
Launch Event for "Turkey in Seattle: An Oral History Project"
Memorial to be Held for Iraj Khademi on August 18 at the University of Washington's Kane Hall
Farhat J. Ziadeh Distinguished Lecture Series Resumes with Professor Vali Nasr
NELC Students and Theatre Group Bring Shahnameh into Life
NELC Concludes Afghanistan Lecture Series and Offers New Course
NELC Convocation 2022
Shahnameh: A Contemporary Reading
How to (Not) Read Afghan Literature?
Language Culture: Speaking Ourselves into Existence
Symposium: Is There a Persianate Modernity?
"Jewish Dogs and the Nazi Beast" Professor Naomi Sokoloff's recent lecture
NELC-PISP Roshan Fellows Present Their Projects at the Simpson Center Event
On gazel, ethno-geography and desire: Two talks and a short article by Selim S. Kuru
NELC STUDENTS REFLECT: Lidwien Kaptiejn on Somalia, A Horn of Africa Initiative Lecture
ARCE 2019-2020 Public Lecture Series starts with Jere Bacharach on Fustat
End of the Year Reception
5th year of cooperation with the NELC-PISP Iranian Film Initiative at SIFF and films from our region at the Festival
Nowruz at UW
Cüneyt Özdemir on "The Shackles of Journalism"
Farhat J. Ziadeh Lecture 2019: Jane McAuliffe on the Quran in America
Ancient Iran Day 2018
Afrassiabi Lecture 2019: Lior Sternfield on Iranian Jews in the Twentieth Centry
Turks in Germany: A Panel on a Documentary Film
