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CCAS Publishes Teaching Unit on Islam and Politics

The Education Outreach program at CCAS, with support from Georgetown’s Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU), has produced a new teaching…

March 13, 2020

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MAAS Student Wins Political Risk Competition 

Congratulations to first year MAAS student Azim Wazeer, along with Tra Hoang (MASIA ’20), and Haris Fontaine (MSFS ’20), who came in first place in the 2020 Fletcher…

March 9, 2020

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Summer FLAS Applications are Open!

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship applications for graduate and undergraduate students are due March.…

February 24, 2020

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CCAS Hosts Undergraduate Research Scholars

  CCAS is pleased to participate in the competitive Bachelors in Foreign Service (BSFS) Scholars Program, which enables undergraduates to work on substantive research…

February 10, 2020

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CCAS mourns the loss of Albert Aghazarian

The CCAS community was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Albert Aghazarian, a renowned scholar and activist, and the first graduate of the Master of Arts in Arab(…

February 3, 2020

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Did you miss “Rethinking US-Gulf Relations”?

You can watch this event, which discusses future interdependencies with the vitally important Gulf region, on the CCAS YouTube.…

February 3, 2020

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How to Avoid the Arab Resource Curse

If you missed our event on macroeconomic policies in the Arab world, you can watch it now on. …

January 28, 2020

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Q&A with Najib Joe Hakim (MAAS ’82)

Najib Joe Hakim works as a documentary and editorial photographer in San Francisco. He is a Political Art Fellow at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the recipient of the…

January 24, 2020

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CCAS Assistant Academic Director Honored with President’s Excellence Award

The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies would like to congratulate Assistant Director of Academic Programs Kelli Harris, who was a recipient of the 2020 President’s Excellence…

January 17, 2020

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MIT features MAAS alum’s work in sign language, identity, and assistive technology

December 13, 2019