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Ben Taub reporting from the Old City neighborhood of Mosul, Iraq in 2018. (Photo credit: Moises Saman)

Reporter to discuss U.S. withdrawal from Syria

Ben Taub, a staff writer for The New Yorker, will deliver a talk on Thursday, Oct. 31 on the political implications of the United States’ withdrawal from Syria and the...
Marcia C. Inhorn, CMES Chair and William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, addresses conference attendees.

(Un)Settling Middle Eastern Refugees Conference

From September 27-29 Marcia C. Inhorn, CMES Chair and William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, hosted the international conference-workshop...

A Tech School for Dreamers in Afghanistan

The story of the team’s plight made international news and gained support from U.S. legislators and the president. And it set in motion a collaboration between Yale and the...

MacMillan Center awards book prizes to three faculty members

have been awarded book prizes by the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale. Two faculty members received the Gustav Ranis...
The group of K-12 teachers that participated in the Summer Institute for Teachers.

Teachers explore “refugee” as defined by international law

The Council on Middle East Studies at the MacMillan Center welcomed participants to its three-day Summer Institute for Teachers (SIT), “Refugees in Recent History,” from June...
Deena Mousa (YC ‘20) walks customers through treatment surveys in a Carrefour grocery store in Doha, Qatar.

Addressing nutritional deficits in Qatar

Thanks to the generous funding from the Libby Rouse Grant I received through the Council on Middle East Studies at the MacMillan Center, I spent several weeks this summer in...
A young woman provides a DNA sample via cheek swab. She was among a cohort of Syrian adolescents forcibly displaced by conflict to participate in a study on the effects of genetic and resilience on the mental health recovery. (Photo courtesy of the research team.)

Study examines effects of genes and resilience on Syrian refugee youth

A new study demonstrates the influence of genetic factors and resilience — the resources and capacities for overcoming adversity — on changes in levels of psychosocial stress...