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Documenting a Feminist Revolution

Author Interview with Yasmin El-Rifae By Coco Tait Yasmin El-Rifae is a London-based writer and editor (previously with independent newspaper Mada Masr in Cairo), and also co…

January 24, 2023

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The Evolving World of History Education

How CCAS helps educators navigate evolving trends in the teaching of…

January 19, 2023

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Researching the History of a Family Dynasty

Q&A with CCAS Director Joseph Sassoon on his research process for his latest…

January 16, 2023

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The Rise and Fall of a Global Empire

CCAS Director Joseph Sassoon discusses how a Jewish Baghdadi family built a global trade empire and why it declined—the subject of his latest.…

January 16, 2023

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The Historical Significance of Epidemics in the Middle East

MAAS alum Benan Grams writes about how diseases—from cholera, to plague, to COVID-19—have shaped human history in profound.…

January 11, 2023

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Our Living Archives, Our Elders

MAAS student Laila Jadallah and alum Samar Saeed on the generation of Palestinian women whose stories informed their understanding of history and helped shape their own cultural…

January 10, 2023

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Student Publication | US empire’s legacy: Fallujah and football played in a graveyard

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January 6, 2023

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New Approaches to Oral Histories in the Arab World

Revolutionary projects across the region demonstrate the power of oral history to give voice to once-silenced communities and to capture history as remembered by those who lived…

January 5, 2023