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Student Success
MELC Faculty and Student News 2025-2026
February 7, 2026
A Snapshot of Graduate Study in MELC (2026)
February 7, 2026
Aria Fani Awarded the MLA Roth Translation Award for 2025
December 30, 2025
Corinna Nichols selected to receive the Graduate School’s 2025 Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Humanities & Fine Arts
June 27, 2025
Successful Launch of the New Arabic Language and Culture Association
May 22, 2025
MELC Major Remi Alidon Awarded Bonderman Fellowship
May 20, 2025
MELC minor, Griffin Hehmeyer selected for the 2025 Husky 100!
April 22, 2025
MELC Updates 2024-2025
February 18, 2025
Oral History of Immigrants from the Middle East: How Can Students Get Involved?
February 18, 2025
UW undergraduate Adrian Brunke awarded the
Redhouse Best Progress in the Turkish Language Award
November 14, 2024
MELC Lecturer Amina Moujtahid's Summer 2024 Intensive Language Program in Morocco
October 2, 2024
MELC Student Finding Family in Korea through Language & Plants
September 17, 2024
Hajar Hussaini Wins Mo Habib Translation Prize in Persian Literature
June 25, 2024
News from MELC Students
April 26, 2024
MELC Updates 2023-2024
February 26, 2024
Student Spotlight: Svetlana Ostroverkhova
October 26, 2023
Call to Poetry Translators: Second Cycle of Mo Habib Translation Prize
September 6, 2023
MELC Students discuss their Turkish language experience at UW
June 12, 2023
Dr. Naghmeh Samini brings Theater Workshop to the Classroom
June 12, 2023
Updates in MELC Digital Humanities: the Svoboda Diaries Project
May 22, 2023
MELC minor Anaëlle Enders awarded the prestigious President’s Medalist Award
March 1, 2023
Meet and Hear From our Language Students
March 1, 2023
MELC Masters Students 2022-2023
February 27, 2023
Turkey in Seattle Oral History Project
February 27, 2023
Letter from the Chair (2023)
February 27, 2023
Launch Event for "Turkey in Seattle: An Oral History Project"
November 30, 2022
NELC Students Present at the Undergraduate Research Symposium
June 14, 2022
NELC Convocation 2022
May 17, 2022
NELC graduate student, Forrest Martin, is the recipient of this year's Michael A. Williams Award.
May 16, 2022
NELC major Lucida Olson awarded the prestigious Irene Dickson McFarlane Tuition Scholarship for 2022-23.
May 9, 2022
NELC Student and Faculty News and Awards
March 22, 2022
A Gateway Worth Walking Through
March 21, 2022
NELC Major Piper Coyner Awarded the 2020-21 Junior Medalist for High Scholarship
January 18, 2022
Remembering Mizoch: NELC Hebrew Students Help Translate a Memorial Book
December 18, 2021
Explore Historical Diaries, Learn Something New, and Win a Prize!
April 13, 2021
NELC-PISP Roshan Fellows Present Their Projects at the Simpson Center Event
October 12, 2020
Reading and Playing Right to Left: Preserving Japanese Comics and Iranian Video Games
June 29, 2020
NELC MA Graduate Bret Windhauser
June 13, 2020
NELC Language Students Accepted to Graduate Programs
June 10, 2020
Erin Kelleher (NELC M.A. 2020) will continue her graduate studies at UTexas Ph.D. Program in Middle Eastern Studies
June 6, 2020
NELC Major Piper Coyner Awarded UW President's Medal
May 26, 2020
Tuna Basibek Publishes Book Review
March 30, 2020
NELC Major Noah Gruenert Broadcasts in Persian on Radio Iranshahr
January 14, 2020
End of the Year Reception
June 12, 2019
NELC Major Mira Weimer on the Prophet Jonah across Abrahamic Texts
June 3, 2019
Undergraduate Student Erika Arias Recognized for Work with Near Eastern Digital Humanities
May 17, 2019
Reflections on a Symposium
November 29, 2018
Ryan Robinson Chose NELC for "Incredible Professors and Fascinating Classes"
June 26, 2018
Graduate Student Conference in Middle East Studies
May 9, 2018
Reed College Symposium
, From Evidence to Scholarship:
Transforming Undergraduate Student Research in the Digital Age
April 4, 2018
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