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Women and transitional justice in Tunisia

Doris Gray, director of the Hillary Clinton Center for Women’s Empowerment at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco, professor, and author, gave a talk on Women and...

John Darnell, professor of Egyptology at Yale, along with a team of researchers, uncovered a “lost oasis” in the eastern Egyptian desert. One image dates back to about 3,300 B.C.E. and includes large depictions of animals, including an addax, or antelope. “The large addax in particular deserves to be added to the artistic achievements of early Egypt,” says Darnell.

Ancient Egyptian graffiti, burial sites discovered by Yale archaeologists

A team of archaeologists — led by Yale Egyptologist John Darnell — has uncovered a “lost oasis” of archaeological activity in the eastern Egyptian desert of Elkab. The...

The text, written in Sumerian, outlines the monthly rations that female weavers employed by the state received from the local administration in Irisagrig, where such rations tended to be unusually generous. Puzur-Iškur is known from other Irisagrig texts as having been an “overseer of the weavers.” The month name Nig-Enlila was only used in Irisagrig and some nearby settlements, which confirms that the text has to come from this area.

Yale Assyriologist discovers evidence of lost city in Iraq

When Eckart Frahm, professor of Assyriology and a core faculty member of the Council on Middle East Studies at the MacMillan Center, received a call from Homeland Security...

Professor Rizvi (on left) with seminar participants: Katherine Werwie, Chelsea Connelly, Yagnaseni Datta, Soffia Gunnarsdottir, Stéphanie Machabee, Doyle Calhoun, Maia Simon, Andrés Bustamante.

Museum and nation in the United Arab Emirates

Over the course of the semester, the graduate History of Art seminar “Museum and Nation” has focused on the role of museums in generating national identity in the United Arab...

Professor M. Nazif Shahrani, Indiana University, Bloomington, and Professor Thomas Barfield, Boston University

Conference discusses emerging identities in Afghanistan

On April 13 and 14, the Yale Program in Iranian Studies—operating under the auspices of the MacMillan Center’s Council on Middle East Studies—hosted the Conference on...

Yale holds first-ever Arab conference

The following article appears in the April 23 Yale Daily News. As a first year, Shady Qubaty ’20, the first Yemeni undergraduate at Yale, felt there was a need on campus for...

Camille Cole wins Joel A. Tarr Prize

History Ph.D. candidate Camille Cole recently received the Joel A. Tarr Prize for the best article, published in either a journal or edited volume, on the relationship...