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In the Press

Cover of Shape of Extinction
New Publication Highlights Iranian Poetry in Translation
May 19, 2025
Aria
“Collaboration was absolutely key to success”: Interview with Dr. Aria Fani, Director of the Persian and Iranian Studies Program
February 18, 2025
Aysenur
Remembering Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi
September 16, 2024
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Prof. Fani’s First Book to be Published in Iran
August 30, 2024
Prof. Elkhafaifi's Award, a Libyan Clock
MELC Faculty Honored during Arab American Heritage Month
April 25, 2024
Read more
MELC Updates 2023-2024
February 26, 2024
Alum awarded the Middle East Medievalists Book Prize
Alum awarded the Middle East Medievalists Book Prize
November 27, 2023
Mo Habib: Artwork by Amelia Ossorio, MELC student majoring in Persian
A Novel Prize for Persian Translation
August 21, 2023
Seattle’s First Iranian Theater Company - “The Forgotten History of Mastaneh”
Seattle’s First Iranian Theater Company - “The Forgotten History of Mastaneh”
February 6, 2023
Aria Fani
Aria Fani Interviewed by the Daily Texan on His Forthcoming Book
November 15, 2022
Dream image of a woman in the sky
Prof. Scott Noegel Interviewed on BBC's "The Forum"
September 22, 2022
Since 1948
Interview with Dr. Naomi B. Sokoloff on Since 1948: Israeli Literature in the Making 
March 21, 2022
Wordplay - Noegel
Interview with Scott B. Noegel on “Wordplay” in Ancient Near Eastern Texts
March 21, 2022
ahuvia
New Book by Prof. Mika Ahuvia
November 23, 2021
Professor Aria Fani
Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Professor in Persian and Iranian Studies
October 12, 2020
hebrew meter
"Effu­sive ado­ra­tion of Hebrew": Prof. Naomi Sokoloff on Hebrew poetry in two publications
July 13, 2020
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Gary Martin on the "Trouble with Adultery in the Cairo Genizah Biblical Manuscripts"
February 13, 2020
Sokoloff Hebrew What_We_Talk_about_When_We_Talk_about_Hebrew
Naomi Sokoloff's co-edited volume wins the prestigious National Jewish Book Award
January 15, 2020

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