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Steck, Kaylee. “Cotton in the Global Economy: Mapping Material Culture Through Indian Ocean Trade.”
This teaching unit on Indian Ocean trade focuses on the rise of cotton as a global commodity and foregrounds the antecedents of Europe’s cotton industry and their…
November 13, 2017
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Alumni Spotlight: Curt Goering (MAAS ’80)
While in college in the West Bank and Jerusalem, Curt Goering would frequently watch soldiers periodically enter and disrupt his classes and take students away. His classmates…
November 1, 2017
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Q&A with Tighe Flanagan (MAAS ’12)
Tighe Flanagan is Director of Wikimedia Foundation’s Education Programs, which helps educators and students around the world contribute to Wikipedia in an academic setting. As…
November 1, 2017
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Q&A with Dena Takruri (MAAS ’08)
Dena Takruri is an American journalist, presenter, and producer for Al Jazeera's all digital video network, AJ+, and a 2008 graduate of the MAAS program at Georgetown. In her…
October 28, 2017
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MAAS Open House
Join us for an open house on November 9th to learn more about the M.A. in Arab Studies.…
October 2, 2017
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Neep, Daniel. “Narrating Crisis, Constructing Policy: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in Syria” (2017)
Prof. Daniel Neep recently published his research on incremental institutional change in post-independence Syria for the journal New Political.…
September 18, 2017
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Partnering for Solutions
CCAS, in partnership with the University of Kurdistan, brought together 40+ researchers this spring to discuss durable solutions to forced displacement in.…
September 15, 2017
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What Post-WWII Schoolchildren Learned about the World
The middle of the twentieth century was a watershed period in history for many reasons, with one of the most significant being the rise of mass education systems across the.…
September 15, 2017
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Education in the Arab World: Measuring Up Or “Upping” Our Measures?
Professor Adely discusses how flawed quality measures often shape our understanding of education in the Middle East and what a closer look at these measures can tell.…
September 15, 2017
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Celebrating the Cultures of the Excluded
Amidst the rising anti-refugee and anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States, Muslim children in the Washington DC area took a stand this spring in an unconventional way: the…
September 15, 2017