Category: Alumni Spotlight
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New article by MAAS alum Khairuldeen Makhzoomi in the Fikra Forum
Pro-Iran Militias Are the Big Winners in Iraq’s Election, argues…
December 1, 2025
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MAAS alum writes for New Lines Magazine
Minatullah Alobaidi argues that clerics and adherents to stubborn cultural norms are failing the young girls of…
August 6, 2025
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Charting a People’s Revolution: Protest Data from Sudan’s Uprising
Professor Killian Clarke and MAAS alum Jérémie Langlois use protest data to reveal how Sudan’s 2019 uprising unfolded—and what it can tell us about people power and state…
May 19, 2025
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Supporting Peace in Sudan
MAAS alum Nisrine Hilizah reflects on her work at the Carter Center’s Conflict Resolution…
May 19, 2025
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Teaching the Middle East, Teaching the World
MAAS alum Susan Douglass looks back on ten years as Education Outreach Director and the four-decade legacy of CCAS’s K–14 outreach…
May 19, 2025
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Authoritarian Legacies and the War in Sudan
Decades of authoritarian rule—and the policies of Omar al-Bashir’s Islamist regime—help explain the roots of Sudan’s current conflict, argues MAAS alum Khalid.…
May 16, 2025
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Student Spotlight: Angie Wright explores refugee and human rights law
“My broadest, most abstract goal is to push our legal and political systems in their capacity to unconditionally protect human beings and their rights,” Wright.…
May 5, 2025
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MAAS Alum Dorothée Kellou Awarded Recanati-Kaplan Prize
The Recanati-Kaplan Prize supports outstanding projects by culture creators and producers from the Arab.…
December 9, 2024
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MAAS Alums Honored with Paper Prize
Congratulations to Thayer Hastings and Leen Alfatafta, whose papers were selected for the American Anthropological Association Middle East Section Student Paper!…
December 2, 2024
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MAAS Alum Interview with Al Jazeera
MAAS alum Samar Saeed speaks with Al Jazeera about the destruction of education in…
September 10, 2024