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Call for Submissions: Third Cycle of Mo Habib Translation Prize
March 3, 2026
MELC Faculty and Student News 2025-2026
February 7, 2026
A Snapshot of Graduate Study in MELC (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
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
The Svoboda Diaries: An Inside Look at the Late Ottoman Empire
February 18, 2025
Envisioning the Landscape of the Svoboda Diaries
October 18, 2024
Updates in MELC Digital Humanities: the Svoboda Diaries Project
May 22, 2023
NELC Students Present at the Undergraduate Research Symposium
June 14, 2022
NELC Student and Faculty News and Awards
March 22, 2022
A New Book by Prof. Hamza Zafer
March 22, 2022
Interview with Dr. Naomi B. Sokoloff on
Since 1948: Israeli Literature in the Making
March 21, 2022
Interview with Scott B. Noegel on “Wordplay” in Ancient Near Eastern Texts
March 21, 2022
The Svoboda Diaries Project: Historical preservation of diaries from 19th century Iraq
January 31, 2022
Symposium: Is There a Persianate Modernity?
December 14, 2021
New Book by Prof. Mika Ahuvia
November 23, 2021
Explore Historical Diaries, Learn Something New, and Win a Prize!
April 13, 2021
Digitizing Life on the Tigris River via the Svoboda Diaries Project
March 13, 2021
Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Professor in Persian and Iranian Studies
October 12, 2020
"Effusive adoration of Hebrew": Prof. Naomi Sokoloff on Hebrew poetry in two publications
July 13, 2020
Reading and Playing Right to Left: Preserving Japanese Comics and Iranian Video Games
June 29, 2020
The Allure of Untranslatability
May 17, 2020
Gary Martin on the "Trouble with Adultery in the Cairo Genizah Biblical Manuscripts"
February 13, 2020
Naomi Sokoloff's co-edited volume wins the prestigious National Jewish Book Award
January 15, 2020
On gazel, ethno-geography and desire: Two talks and a short article by Selim S. Kuru
January 6, 2020
HAPPY HALLOWEEN Witches in Turkish Shadow Theater
October 31, 2019
Electronic resources for the study of Islamic numismatics
September 26, 2019
Undergraduate Student Erika Arias Recognized for Work with Near Eastern Digital Humanities
May 17, 2019
Subaltern Mothering and the Political Elsewhere: Mediha Sorma on Kurdish Mothers
April 21, 2019
Turkic and Central Eurasian Studies Program Presents: Darren Byler on Uyghur Freedom
November 1, 2018
First Fall 2018 ARCE Lecture, Lost City of Pyramids by Dr. Mark Lehner
October 3, 2018
Claudia Yaghoobi on Women's Movements in Iran
October 2, 2018
Walter Andrews receives Undergraduate Research Mentor Award with the Newbook Project
May 17, 2018
Reed College Symposium
, From Evidence to Scholarship:
Transforming Undergraduate Student Research in the Digital Age
April 4, 2018
Turkic and Central Eurasian Studies Lecture Series: David Brophy (Univ. of Sydney)
March 22, 2018
Prof. Naomi Sokoloff Co-directs a Conference on Israeli Literature @70
March 21, 2018
Islamic Studies Professor Dr. Zafer Co-Edits The Qurʾan Seminar Commentary
January 3, 2017
