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Uzbek President Addresses U.N. General Assembly
The 75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly opened on Tuesday, September 22nd. As part of the General Assembly, His Excellency Mr. Shavkat Mirziyoyev, the President of the Republic of…
Congratulations to Ben Batarseh for completing his NELC M.A. requirements!
Ben Batarseh recently completed and defended his M.A. Thesis, Transjordanian State-Building and the Palestinian Problem: How Tribal Values and Symbols Became the Bedrock of Jordanian Nationalism.…
Congratulations to Nathan Young for completing his NELC PhD requirements!
Nathan Young recently completed and defended his Dissertation, Modernity’s Other: Nostalgia for Village Life in Turkey (see below for summary).
During his time in the NELC PhD Program,…
Congratulations to Ehsan Estiri for completing his NELC PhD requirements!
During this peculiar summer of 2020, Ehsan Estiri finished and defended his Dissertation, Talking Back to America: Discursive Processes in Iranian Angelino Public Events (see below for summary).…
NELC Persian Language Coordinator Publishes New Book on contemporary Persian novels and short stories
Essays on Iranian Modern Fiction by Dr. Mehrak Kamali has recently been published in Persian. The book is a body of writings about contemporary Persian novels and short stories. The essays look at…
NELC Professor Sean Anthony Publishes New Book Examing the Life of Muhammad
NELC Professor of Islamic Studies, Dr. Sean Anthony, has had a new book published, Muhammad and the Empires of Faith The Making of the Prophet of Islam (University of California Press, April 2020…
Magda El-Sherbini receives 2020 Ross Atkinson Lifetime Achievement Award
On February 14, 2020, the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) named Magda El-Sherbini, Professor/Middle East & Islamic Studies Librarian at The Ohio State…
NELC Awards Two Scholarships to Outstanding Graduate Students!
During the Fall 2019 semester, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC) awarded the Hajj Abu Ismail Jallaq Scholarship to two outstanding graduate students, Ben Batarseh and…
Sofia Chair of Arabic, Ahmad Al-Jallad, publishes dictionary of an extinct variety of Arabic, written in Syria/Jordan more than 2000 years ago
Safaitic is the name of an extinct script used to write rock inscriptions in forms of pre-Islamic Arabic concentrated the Syro-Jordanian Ḥarrah. Ahmad Al-Jallad with his colleague Karolina…