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In the final weeks of 2022, the Taliban made headlines for banning women in Afghanistan from working in humanitarian organizations and attending universities. These moves are...
New York, NY – 7 December 2022 – The Modern Language Association of America today announced it is awarding its thirtieth annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and...
The Moroccan team in the FIFA World Cup, 2022. Photo via Middle East Monitor.
Over the past two weeks, Moroccans worldwide have been on a wild ride as their team pushed far into the 2022 World Cup elimination stages. In the round of sixteen, the heroic...
Associate Professor Jonathan Wyrtzen’s latest book, Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East (Columbia University...
Guests enter the convention center hosting COP27, the U.N. climate summit, on Nov. 4 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. (Peter Dejong/AP)
This week, the global environmental elite will gather in the Egyptian tourist city of Sharm el-Sheikh for COP27, the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations...
The Council on Middle East Studies and the Program in Iranian Studies at Yale University stand in solidarity with the peaceful protesters across Iran who courageously face...
2022 Hecht Award Winners: Project leaders from left, Jeannette Ickovics, Kaveh Khoshnood and Carol Oladele.
Projects examining climate change and urban health, substance use disorder and mental health, and the relationship between food insecurity and hypertension have been selected...