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Frontispiece from Turkish MSS suppl. 257, Kitab-i Shahidi, an undated & uncatalogued work.
In late October of 2018, Yale hosted the Sixth Biennial Symposium of the Historians of Islamic Art Association, generously supported by the MacMillan Center. The event was...
Alan Mikhail
Alan Mikhail, Professor of History, has been awarded the M. Fuat Köprülü Book Prize of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association for his book,  Under Osman’s Tree:...
Popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt toppled autocratic regimes during the 2011 Arab Spring, but the countries’ fates diverged after the revolutions ended. While Tunisia...
Daniel Gerlach, editor-in-chief of the German Middle East magazine Zenith
The article below, written by Kelly Wei, appeared in the November 7, 2018, issue of the Yale Daily News. Dozens gathered in Luce Hall on Tuesday to hear from Daniel Gerlach...
Photo by Carly Wanna
The article below was written by Carly Wanna for the Yale Daily News (Nov. 5, 2018): Many of Yale’s language programs offer opportunities for students to practice their...
A photograph of archaeologist Frank Brown and his crew in the Temple of the Gadde at Dura-Europos, Syria, during the 1934–1935 joint excavation of the ancient city by Yale and the University- Académie des Inscriptions. (Yale University Art Gallery, Dura-Europos Collection)
Last spring, Kishwar Rizvi, professor of the history of art, led a group of eight graduate students to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as part of her seminar “Museum and...
Marcia C. Inhorn, Yale University
On September 28, the MacMillan Center and the Department of Anthropology hosted a ground-breaking conference on “Waithood: Gender, Education, and Global Delays in Marriage.”...