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News
- Didem Havlioğlu Delivers the 2024 Walter Andrews Memorial Lecture (April 30, 2024)
- News from MELC Students (April 26, 2024)
- MELC Faculty Honored during Arab American Heritage Month (April 25, 2024)
- Announcing a New Book by Prof. Amina Moujtahid (April 12, 2024)
- Launch of the Global Literary Studies Major (April 10, 2024)
- Events in the Turkish and Ottoman Studies Program (March 7, 2024)
- Prof. Stephanie Selover Awarded a Site Preservation Grant by the American Institute of Archaeology (February 27, 2024)
- MELC SUMMER STUDY ABROAD: ARABIC LANGUAGE AND CULTURE IN MOROCCO! (January 6, 2024)
- Prof. Hussein Elkhafaifi Receives Lifetime Achievement Award (January 4, 2024)
- Dr. Naghmeh Samini brings Theater Workshop to the Classroom (June 12, 2023)
- Announcing the Winner of the Inaugural Mo Habib Translation Prize (June 5, 2023)
- MELC minor Anaëlle Enders awarded the prestigious President’s Medalist Award (March 1, 2023)
- MELC’s Inaugural Walter G. Andrews Memorial Lecture Featuring Dr. Michael Pifer (January 3, 2023)
- Prof. Scott Noegel Interviewed on BBC's "The Forum" (September 22, 2022)
- MELC's New Logo: Designed by Mamoun Sakkal (September 16, 2022)
- Memorial to be Held for Iraj Khademi on August 18 at the University of Washington's Kane Hall (August 12, 2022)
- NELC Students and Theatre Group Bring Shahnameh into Life (June 7, 2022)
- Translation Studies Hub (TSH) has been renewed for the academic year 2022-2023 (May 18, 2022)
- NELC major Lucida Olson awarded the prestigious Irene Dickson McFarlane Tuition Scholarship for 2022-23. (May 9, 2022)
- Symposium: Is There a Persianate Modernity? (December 14, 2021)
- Gender Inclusion and Language Instruction (December 8, 2021)
- New Book by Prof. Mika Ahuvia (November 23, 2021)
- NELC Welcomes Visiting Scholar Gürbey Hiz in Turkish and Ottoman Studies (August 24, 2021)
- New Minors for Students in NELC (August 18, 2021)
- NELC Welcomes Visiting Faculty Member in Arabic, Makda Weatherspoon (August 16, 2021)
- Explore Historical Diaries, Learn Something New, and Win a Prize! (April 13, 2021)
- NELC Statement in Solidarity with Asian-Americans (March 17, 2021)
- Digitizing Life on the Tigris River via the Svoboda Diaries Project (March 13, 2021)
- American Association for Turkic Teachers Names Award After Prof. Walter G. Andrews (October 15, 2020)
- NELC-PISP Roshan Fellows Present Their Projects at the Simpson Center Event (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)
- Erin Kelleher (NELC M.A. 2020) will continue her graduate studies at UTexas Ph.D. Program in Middle Eastern Studies (June 6, 2020)
- Walter G. Andrews (1939-2020) (June 1, 2020)
- The Allure of Untranslatability (May 17, 2020)
- UW-NELC Online: Language Teaching During the Lockdown (May 7, 2020)
- Nowruz 2020: A Message from NELC - PISP (March 20, 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)
- NELC Major Noah Gruenert Broadcasts in Persian on Radio Iranshahr (January 14, 2020)
- On gazel, ethno-geography and desire: Two talks and a short article by Selim S. Kuru (January 6, 2020)
- NELC STUDENTS REFLECT: Lidwien Kaptiejn on Somalia, A Horn of Africa Initiative Lecture (November 6, 2019)
- HAPPY HALLOWEEN Witches in Turkish Shadow Theater (October 31, 2019)
- ARCE 2019-2020 Public Lecture Series starts with Jere Bacharach on Fustat (October 14, 2019)
- Electronic resources for the study of Islamic numismatics (September 26, 2019)
- NEW Assistant Professor in Persian and Iranian Studies: Aria Fani (September 5, 2019)
- 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)
- 5th year of cooperation with the NELC-PISP Iranian Film Initiative at SIFF and films from our region at the Festival (May 6, 2019)
- Nowruz at UW (April 30, 2019)
- Farhat J. Ziadeh Lecture 2019: Jane McAuliffe on the Quran in America (April 21, 2019)
- Ancient Iran Day 2018 (April 21, 2019)
- Reflections on a Symposium (November 29, 2018)
- Turks in Germany: A Panel on a Documentary Film (November 29, 2018)
- Gert Borg on Arabic Studies in Europe and "Gift Called Philology" (November 8, 2018)
- "Islamic Cairo" Autumn 2018 2nd ARCE Lecture by Jere Bacharach (November 8, 2018)
- 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)
- NELC-PISP Presents Third Iran Film Initiative in collaboration with SIFF 2018 (May 17, 2018)
- Graduate Student Conference in Middle East Studies (May 9, 2018)
- MONKEYS IN ANCIENT EGYPT’S VALLEY OF THE KINGS:THE SEARCH FOR THREE UNUSUAL TOMBS (May 7, 2018)
- A Conversation with Shirin Neshat (May 5, 2018)
- Streetwise Istanbul with Meghan Sayres (April 11, 2018)
- Samad Alavi and Afshin Sepehri presented a pre-show talk for Meany Center's Feathers of Fire event (March 22, 2018)
- Prof. Naomi Sokoloff Co-directs a Conference on Israeli Literature @70 (March 21, 2018)
- WholeU Faculty Friday presents NELC Lecturer Shahrzad Shams (March 21, 2018)
- 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)