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Photograph by Ed Ou
On April 29-30, Yale MacMillan’s Council on Middle East Studies (CMES), in partnership with the Alwaleed Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR) at the American...
Fig. 1 “Ferry in Dubai Harbor, 1970” shows men commuting to work in an abra (water taxi), in the Dubai Creek. Eve Arnold for Magnum Photos, courtesy of Magnum Photos/Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Kishwar Rizvi, Professor in the History of Art, Islamic Art and Architecture, wrote the following article that appeared in Platform, a digital forum for conversations about...
Marcia C. Inhorn
Yale Anthropology’s Marcia Inhorn was recently named one of the most influential anthropologists by AcademicInfluence.com, a company that uses machine learning algorithms to...
lejandra Padin-Dujon
The following interview is part of the Council on Middle East Studies’ Alumni Spotlight series featuring graduates from the Bachelor’s Degree in Modern Middle East Studies....
Bestselling Algerian novelist and poet Ahlam Mosteghanemi began publishing in the 1970s and remains one of the most popular and beloved authors writing in Arabic. She is also...
Alan Mikhail, Chace Family Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History
The following op-ed written by Alan Mikhail, Chace Family Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History, appears today’s Los Angeles Times: In all that has been...
Salma Mousa
On September 16, the Council on Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) hosted Salma Mousa, assistant professor of political science at Yale and a scholar of migration, conflict, and...