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CCAS Education Outreach Coordinator wins President’s Excellence Award
The Center for Contemporary Arab studies is pleased to announce that CCAS Education Outreach Coordinator Dr. Susan Douglass is a 2017 recipient of the President’s Excellence…
November 22, 2017
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CCAS Launches Partnership with Status Hour
CCAS is excited to announce a new partnership with Status Hour to provide expert content from a diverse range of voices on the Middle East. The latest issue features two videos…
November 17, 2017
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Sassoon, Joseph. “China and Iraq” in The Red Star and the Crescent: China and the Middle East
Prof. Joseph Sassoon recently published "China and Iraq" in The Red Star and the Crescent: China and the Middle.…
November 15, 2017
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MAAS alum Dena Takruri honored by ADC
Congratulations to Dena Takruri (MAAS ’08), 2017 Recipient of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Rose Nader Award for "speaking truth to power and giving voice to…
November 14, 2017
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CCAS at MESA 2017!
CCAS will be at the 2017 Middle East Studies Association conference Nov. 19-21 in Washington DC. There will be a great lineup of sessions, including several talks by CCAS faculty…
November 14, 2017
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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