Research

Svoboda
The Svoboda Diaries: An Inside Look at the Late Ottoman Empire
February 18, 2025
Ancient map
Envisioning the Landscape of the Svoboda Diaries
October 18, 2024
GrahamMullen
Updates in MELC Digital Humanities: the Svoboda Diaries Project
May 22, 2023
Undergrad Symposium
NELC Students Present at the Undergraduate Research Symposium
June 14, 2022
Piper Coyner
NELC Student and Faculty News and Awards
March 22, 2022
Hamza Zafer
A New Book by Prof. Hamza Zafer
March 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
Svoboda Project image
The Svoboda Diaries Project: Historical preservation of diaries from 19th century Iraq
January 31, 2022
Persianate
Symposium: Is There a Persianate Modernity?
December 14, 2021
ahuvia
New Book by Prof. Mika Ahuvia
November 23, 2021
sdp, svoboda, contest, 2021
Explore Historical Diaries, Learn Something New, and Win a Prize!
April 13, 2021
<img src="svoboda_diaries.png" alt="Joseph Svoboda Diaries Project">
Digitizing Life on the Tigris River via the Svoboda Diaries Project
March 13, 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
Bardia Cyrus's Son
Reading and Playing Right to Left: Preserving Japanese Comics and Iranian Video Games
June 29, 2020
Dr. Aria Fani
The Allure of Untranslatability
May 17, 2020
gary martin cairo genize
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
iae kuru talk
On gazel, ethno-geography and desire: Two talks and a short article by Selim S. Kuru
January 6, 2020
cadilar karagoz walter
HAPPY HALLOWEEN Witches in Turkish Shadow Theater
October 31, 2019
dinar of abd al-malik
Electronic resources for the study of Islamic numismatics            
September 26, 2019
Erika with her sister Zoraida and Professor Walter Andrews at the Husky 100 reception
Undergraduate Student Erika Arias Recognized for Work with Near Eastern Digital Humanities
May 17, 2019
Mediha Sorma presenting in front of her powerpoint in the NELC seminar room
Subaltern Mothering and the Political Elsewhere: Mediha Sorma on Kurdish Mothers
April 21, 2019
Darren_Bayler, REECAS, NELC, Turkic and Central Eurasian
Turkic and Central Eurasian Studies Program Presents: Darren Byler on Uyghur Freedom
November 1, 2018
Mark Lehner
First Fall 2018 ARCE Lecture, Lost City of Pyramids by Dr. Mark Lehner
October 3, 2018
claudia yaghoobi
Claudia Yaghoobi on Women's Movements in Iran
October 2, 2018
andrews, mentor award, UW research conference
Walter Andrews receives Undergraduate Research Mentor Award with the Newbook Project
May 17, 2018
Walter, Hannah and Jion at Reed College
Reed College Symposium,  From Evidence to Scholarship: Transforming Undergraduate Student Research in the Digital Age
April 4, 2018
Brophy, NELC, Near Eastern Languages and Civilziation, Uyghurs, Central Eurasian Studies, Turkic, University of Washignton
Turkic and Central Eurasian Studies Lecture Series: David Brophy (Univ. of Sydney)
March 22, 2018
NELC Jewish and Hebrew Studies Program UW Naomi Sokoloff
Prof. Naomi Sokoloff Co-directs a Conference on Israeli Literature @70
March 21, 2018
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Islamic Studies Professor Dr. Zafer Co-Edits The Qurʾan Seminar Commentary
January 3, 2017