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CCAS Education Outreach Coordinator Speaks at Rhode Island Town Hall
Dr. Susan Douglass, the Education Outreach Coordinator at CCAS, spoke this week at a day-long discussion and town hall hosted by a Rhode Island school district to help educators…
April 25, 2018
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MAAS Alum to Teach Media & the Arab World this Summer
This summer MAAS alum and media specialist Jeffrey Ghannam will return to Georgetown to teach “Media in the Arab World.” The seminar class, which will begin May 21,…
April 20, 2018
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Hot off the presses!
The Winter/Spring CCAS Newsmagazine, featuring faculty, alums & students, is all about Media in the Arab.…
April 20, 2018
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Arab Studies Certificate Students Present Capstone Research
Congratulations to this year’s cohort of students who completed the Undergraduate Arab Studies Certificate at CCAS and presented their research at last week’s…
April 19, 2018
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Love, Death, and a Day’s Work
Majd Al Waheidi, a first-year MAAS student, was born in Gaza to a Bedouin family from Beersheva. Before joining MAAS, Majd worked in Gaza as a reporter for the New York Times.…
April 17, 2018
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MAAS in and on the Media
Graduates of the MAAS program have distinguished themselves in many professional fields, including the media. We hear below from alums who work in the media—as journalists and…
April 17, 2018
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Amplifying Voices, Responding to Crises: Media Technology and the Arab Spring
By Jeffrey Ghannam Well before the Arab Spring protests erupted in late 2010, people in the Arab world were accessing the Internet and social media platforms like Facebook and…
April 17, 2018
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Q&A with Journalist Ada Mullol (MAAS ’18)
Ada Mullol was well on her way to a career in journalism when she decided to pursue her Masters in Arab Studies at Georgetown. She first honed her reporting skills as an…
April 17, 2018
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MESA and the Muslim Ban
By Beth Baron, former president of MESA, and Judith Tucker, CCAS Professor and current MESA president The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) recognized early on that the …
April 17, 2018
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The Revolutionary Seeds of Mass Media
By Sania El-Husseini The development and spread of mass media throughout the Middle East over the past two decades—starting with satellite television stations, which took…
April 17, 2018