Category: Alumni Spotlight
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Q&A with Dena Takruri (MAAS ’08)
Dena Takruri is an American journalist, presenter, and producer for Al Jazeera's all digital video network, AJ+, and a 2008 graduate of the MAAS program at Georgetown. In her…
October 28, 2017
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Q&A with Sherene Seikaly (MAAS ’00)
MAAS Alum Sherene Seikaly (2000) recently published Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine with Stanford University Press (2015). Her book, which was…
August 21, 2017
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Q&A with Grace Benton (MAAS ’14)
Grace Benton, originally from Mobile, Alabama, graduated from the MAAS program in 2014 and also holds a Certificate in Refugee and Humanitarian Emergencies from Georgetown. Grace…
August 17, 2017
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MAAS Alum Named to Inspiring Arab Leaders List
MAAS grad Deena Shakir (2010) was included by Huffington Post as one of the top ten inspiring young Arab American Leaders of.…
August 16, 2017
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Q&A with Will Todman (MAAS ’16)
Will Todman graduated from the MAAS program in 2016. Will is originally from the UK and received his undergraduate degree in Arabic and Hebrew from Oxford University. He…
August 14, 2017
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Q&A with Adila Laïdi-Hanieh (MAAS ’92)
Adila Laïdi-Hanieh is a 1992 graduate of the MAAS program. After graduating, Adila went on to receive her PhD in Cultural Studies from George Mason University. Adila is…
August 14, 2017
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MAAS Alumna Kathleen Ridolfo Becomes Director of the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center
Research on the Middle East has taken MAAS alumna Kathleen Ridolfo places she never expected. At CCAS, she specialized in Palestinian politics, but since leaving there, she has…
April 26, 2017
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Alumni Q&A: Mhani Alaoui (MAAS ’01)
Mhani Alaoui (MAAS '01) was born and raised in Casablanca, Morocco. Since earning her degree at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, she has conducted research in Paris,…
September 1, 2015
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Q&A with Lisa Hajjar (MAAS ’86)
MAAS alumna and university professor Lisa Hajjar discusses recent developments in the American public debate over the use of torture, and the personal road she took to speaking…
March 5, 2013
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MAAS Alumnus Wins Graduate Student Paper Prize at MESA
Zachary Foster's paper identified and explored an environmental tragedy that led to mass starvation in Greater Syria, and the death of 500,000 people there during World War I.…
December 7, 2012