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MELC Faculty Spotlight: Prof. Melike Yucel-Koc Connects UW Students with Community at the International Children’s Friendship Festival
May 5, 2026
Farhat G. Ziadeh Distinguished Lectures 2026 Presents Shawkat Toorawa (Yale University)
May 4, 2026
An Afternoon of Music from the Silk Road
March 11, 2026
MELC Faculty and Student News 2025-2026
February 7, 2026
Morocco and Enchantment: Arabic and Islamic Studies 2026
February 7, 2026
From Shadows of the Holocaust to the Streets of Iran: Stories of Survival and Resistance
February 7, 2026
Award-Winning Persian Poetry in Translation: The Shape of Extinction and Elegies of the Earth
February 6, 2026
Exploring Complex Identities: Turkish and Ottoman Studies 2026
February 6, 2026
Horn of Africa Studies 2026
February 6, 2026
From the Chair (2026)
February 6, 2026
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
Zuhal Olcay, Acclaimed Performing Artist from Turkey, in a Conversation with MELC Professor Melike Yücel-Koç
November 13, 2025
MELC Prof. Melike Yücel Koç Presents on Immigrant Narratives and American Identity at the OHA Conference
October 27, 2025
Reflection: Turkish 101/511 Session at TurkFest 2025
October 21, 2025
Translating Enchantment: Journeys of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s (d. 1210)
Book of the Hidden Secret
October 14, 2025
Aria Fani awarded René Wellek Prize for Best Book in Comparative Literature
June 17, 2025
Prof. Hamza Zafer featured in “Ways of Knowing Episode 3: Ge’ez"
June 4, 2025
New Publication Highlights Iranian Poetry in Translation
May 19, 2025
From the Chair (2025)
February 21, 2025
MELC Updates 2024-2025
February 18, 2025
Interview with Shai ben Ami: Middle Eastern Studies and the Environment
February 18, 2025
What is happening in the Arabic and Islamic Studies Unit?
February 18, 2025
Exploring Archaeology with Our HBANES Faculty
February 18, 2025
Ladino Day 2024
February 18, 2025
“Collaboration was absolutely key to success”: Interview with Dr. Aria Fani, Director of the Persian and Iranian Studies Program
February 18, 2025
Introducing Mehari Worku and Our New Horn of Africa Program at UW
February 18, 2025
MELC Event Celebrates The Horn of Africa @ UW
February 6, 2025
Ladino Day Interview with Leigh Bardugo & MELC professor Canan Bolel
December 13, 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
Envisioning the Landscape of the Svoboda Diaries
October 18, 2024
MELC Takes Dawg Days at the Zoo
October 12, 2024
MELC Lecturer Amina Moujtahid's Summer 2024 Intensive Language Program in Morocco
October 2, 2024
MELC Emeritus Professor blows his Alphorn
September 11, 2024
Prof. Fani’s First Book to be Published in Iran
August 30, 2024
Global Business Center Awards Grant for Persian Business Language Curriculum
May 16, 2024
MELC Faculty Honored during Arab American Heritage Month
April 25, 2024
Announcing a New Book by Prof. Amina Moujtahid
April 12, 2024
Launch of the Global Literary Studies Major
April 10, 2024
Prof. Melike Yücel-Koç Receives Language Educator of the Year Award
February 28, 2024
Prof. Stephanie Selover Awarded a Site Preservation Grant by the American Institute of Archaeology
February 27, 2024
MELC Updates 2023-2024
February 26, 2024
New Faculty in MELC 2023-2024
February 21, 2024
Creative Approaches
February 21, 2024
Tech-Enhanced Language Learning: Navigating Innovative Platforms for MELC language Courses
February 21, 2024
Black Stewards of Early Islamic Lands: The 2024 Ziadeh Lecture
February 21, 2024
The 2023 Symposium on Indigenous Languages in China and Taiwan
February 21, 2024
Engaging Academic Events by the Turkish and Ottoman Studies Program
February 21, 2024
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