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  • Launch of the Global Literary Studies Major (April 10, 2024)
  • MELC's New Logo: Designed by Mamoun Sakkal (September 16, 2022)
  • Translation Studies Hub (TSH) has been renewed for the academic year 2022-2023 (May 18, 2022)
  • Gender Inclusion and Language Instruction (December 8, 2021)
  • Ece Temelkuran: Turkish and Ottoman Studies Program Annual Lecture Series 2018 (March 21, 2018)
  • Farhat J. Ziadeh Distinguished Lecture in Arab and Islamic Studies (March 21, 2018)

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