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For the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center…

The rise and fall of an international business empire—from shipping to banking and opium.

Congratulations to the esteemed Professor Judith Tucker, former Director of the Master of Arts in Arab Studies Program, on receiving the American History Association’s Award for Scholarly Distinction given…

THE SASSOONS: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire…

  Dr. Benan Grams is a social historian of infectious disease and medicine in the Modern Middle East. Her research focuses on the intersectionality of the history…

"Power plus: Tony Allan’s contributions to understanding transboundary water arrangements"…

Dr. Mark Drury, the 2022-2023 Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellow at CCAS, is a political anthropologist and scholar of decolonization in northwest Africa. His research examines how unresolved tensions…

"Burnings, Beatings, and Bombings: Disaggregating Anti-Christian Violence in Egypt, 2013–2018"…

MAAS student Nisrine Hilizah publishes first survey report on racism and anti-Blackness in the region.