Hayrettin Yücesoy to be interviewed about new work

Hayrettin Yücesoy has published a new work on political thought in the Middle East

Prof. Nancy Berg has been selected by the College of Arts & Sciences for a teaching innovation grant.

This is Dr. Tarbouni's second year volunteering with the MIST program

Ten years after the world’s attention was captured by protests in Tahrir Square, historian of the modern Middle East Nancy Y. Reynolds cautions against an oversimplified remembering of the people, places and policies that sparked the uprising.

Flora Cassen talked with Joe Madison on his Sirius XM radio show.

Flora Cassen writes an opinion piece published in Haaretz saying that as the COVID-19 pandemic has spread around the world the dark web has filled with conspiracy theories accusing Jews of triggering it.

The two collaborated to build an authentic 10thCentury menu that was indicative of life and times in the Middle East during that period.

Rosanne Liebermann, the Friedman Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies in the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies (JIMES), uses interdisciplinary methods to study ancient Judean identity.

Historian Flora Cassen shares some of her ongoing projects and her thoughts on the role of historical scholarship in discussions of modern-day antisemitism.

While most people outside of India are familiar with Bollywood as the largest producer of Hindi-language films in the world, many would be surprised to learn that the language spoken in these films is not purely Hindi, but rather draws extensively from the vocabulary and literature of another South Asian language called Urdu.

A conversation with about education, working in the public sector, and energy policy with Elai Rettig, the Israel Institute Teaching Fellow in Environmental Studies and Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies.

How is Islam like Hinduism? What is a defensive jihad? How does the concentration of Muslims in the Global South affect their perception worldwide? Aria Nakissa — a scholar of Islamic law and philosophy, contemporary Muslim societies, and classical Islamic texts — unpacks a trio of truths about this fast-growing faith.

In our particular sociopolitical moment, matters of sex, gender, and authority have taken on greater visibility and urgency, as the recently viral #metoo movement—started 10 years ago by Tarana Burke—has drawn renewed attention to the ways in which the abuse of authority and power enables gendered and sexualized oppression.

On Monday, January 29, Mark R. Cohen, Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor Emeritus of Jewish Civilization in the Near East and Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton, and a renowned historian of Jews in the medieval Islamic world, will discuss his recent book, Maimonides and the Merchants: Jewish Law and Society in the Medieval Islamic World.

In an article written for The TFLTA Journal, Profesor Mohammad J. Warsi presents some of the relevant aspects that the role songs can play in the teaching–learning process of Hindi-Urdu as a second/ foreign language, drawn from the perspective of using the communicative approach to language teaching and learning.

Professor Hayrettin Yucesoy Ahmet Demirhan publishes "Ortacag Islam’inda Mesihci Inanclar ve Imparatorluk Siyaseti - Dokuzuncu Yüzyilin Baslarinda Abbasi Hilafeti"!