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Read about MAAS alum Hannah Beswick's work as Head of Partnerships at the UN Women Liaison Office for the GCC in Abu Dhabi…

Congratulations to Ziad Abu-Rish and Daniel Neep, the American Druze Foundation Fellows at CCAS for the coming year!…

The spring issue is themed around gender in the Arab world and explores the topic of gender from a variety of angles including labor, migration, development, activism, & art and…

CCAS is deeply saddened by the news of Nemir Kirdar’s passing on Monday, following a long illness. Mr. Kirdar was a passionate advocate for and supporter of CCAS, where…

This spring CCAS celebrated the graduation of the MAAS class of 2020 with a live-streamed virtual commencement featuring guest speakers, musical performances, and student videos.

The killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer is yet another chapter in the long history of racial oppression and injustice in the United States. This killing, along…

CCAS congratulates Professor Joseph Sassoon on his new appointment as director of the center!…

Q&A with Dr. Marwa Daoudy, whose book offers a new framework for evaluating the claim that climate change caused the Syrian uprising.

This year, the Arab Studies Undergraduate Certificate students presented their capstone papers in a virtual colloquium. Congratulations to each of you!…

In February, a ten-episode television series titled Andi Hulum, Arabic for “I Have a Dream,” premiered on Algeria’s Ennahar TV. The show—Algeria’s first entrepreneurship reality series—is produced by…