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On December 8, the Program in Iranian Studies at the MacMillan Center sponsored a panel discussion titled “Iran: Generational change, internal politics & foreign policy...
The rise of ISIS since 2013 has heavily impacted religious minorities across Iraq and Syria. ISIS’s rapid spread across Northern Iraq in the summer of 2014 resulted in the...
Marcia C. Inhorn is the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs and former Chair of the Council on Middle East Studies at the MacMillan Center. She specializes in Middle Eastern gender, religious, and health issues.
The following article by Marica Inhorn, William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs and former Chair of the Council on Middle East Studies at...
A new study demonstrates that an eight-week humanitarian intervention can improve the mental health and psychosocial wellbeing of Syrian refugee and Jordanian youth affected...
Anand Rao
Muslim in the Midst, written and directed by Anand Rao, was staged on September 8 at the Crescent Underground Theater in Morse College at Yale. Set in Bangalore, India, in...
Associate Professor Jonathan Wyrtzen was one of five faculty selected in the 2017-18 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program competition for Morocco. This fall he will be based as a...
Muslims consider mosques to be the houses of God, the bayt Allah. They are places of worship, sanctuaries, and where Muslim communities come together. The first mosque, which...