Assistant Teaching Professor Contact Information mworku3@uw.edu DEN 233 Office Hours Thursday 2:00-5:00 pm Fields of Interest Biblical Hebrew Research Selected Research Two Hundred Täˀammərä Maryam (Miracles of Mary) Stories, ed. Wendy Laura Belcher, Jeremy Brown, Mehari Worku, Dawit Muluneh. Princeton: Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary project. pemm.princeton.edu. Worku, Mehari. "The language of the smart: Sociolinguistic and linguistic features of the Amharic urban youth language." Ebongue, Emmanue and G. Atindogbe Eds. Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Perspectives of Youth Language Practices in Africa: Codes and Identity Writings. Langaa RPCIG, 2019. How Multilingual Policies can Fail: Language Politics among Ethiopian Political Parties. In African Linguistics on the Prairie: Selected Papers from the 45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Major Travis et al. (eds.). Germany, Language Science Press, 2018. Download PDF Mary in the Poetic Theological Works of the Syriac Tradition: A study on Ephrem the Syrian, Jacob of Serugh and Narsai of Nisibis. In The Alexandria School Journal. Alexandria: Agora University Press, 2021. 15th-century Ethiopian Orthodox Ecclesiology in Giyorgis of Sägla’s Mäṣhafä Məsṭir, Washington DC, Catholic University of America (Unpublished dissertation) Zara Yaqob and Walda Heywat. 2023. The Hatata Inquiries: Two Texts of Seventeenth-Century African Philosophy from Ethiopia about Reason, the Creator, and Our Ethical Responsibilities. Translated by Ralph Lee, Mehari Worku, Wendy Laura Belcher, and Jeremy R. Brown. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Courses Taught Spring 2025MELC 415 A: Holy People and Holy Places of the Horn of Africa MELC 567 A: Holy People and Holy Places of the Horn of Africa MELC 596 A: Special Studies in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures Winter 2025MELC 196 A: Introductory Studies in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures MELC 286 B: Themes in Middle Eastern Literature MELC 596 D: Special Studies in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures Related News Related News MELC Event Celebrates The Horn of Africa @ UW (February 6, 2025) MELC Updates 2024-2025 (February 18, 2025) Introducing Mehari Worku and Our New Horn of Africa Program at UW (February 18, 2025)
