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Racy, A.J. “Art and Ecstasy in Arab Music.” (2010)
Dr. Racy explores the idea of tarab, or musical ecstasy, in Arab music. "The word tarab refers to both the ecstatic state evoked by traditional Arab music and the music itself,"…
August 14, 2017
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Stowasser, Barbara. “Time Sticks: How Islam and Other Cultures Have Measured Time.” (2011)
Dr. Stowasser examines the five daily prayers of Sunni Islam in order to explore how the "day" and the "hour" are structured in Islamic tradition, in Islamic science, and how…
August 14, 2017
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Stowasser, Barbara. “Religion and Political Development: Comparative Ideas on Ibn Khaldun and Machiavelli.” (2011)
Dr. Stowasser presents an interesting and unusual comparison of the political philosophy of two great medieval thinkers -- Ibn Khaldun (d. 1402) and Machiavelli (d.).…
August 14, 2017
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Eid, Gamal and Laleh Khalili, Jillian Schwedler, William Zartman. “Revolution in the Arab World: The Long View.” (2011)
CCAS presents recent analysis of the historical context and events making up the Arab.…
August 14, 2017
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Q&A with Will Todman (MAAS ’16)
Will Todman graduated from the MAAS program in 2016. Will is originally from the UK and received his undergraduate degree in Arabic and Hebrew from Oxford University. He…
August 14, 2017
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Günther, Sebastian. “Averroes and Thomas Aquinas on Education.” (2012)
Günther, Sebastian. "Averroes and Thomas Aquinas on Education." )…
August 14, 2017
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Clancy-Smith, Julia. “Tunisian Revolutions: Reflections on Seas, Coasts, and Interiors.” (2014)
Tunisian Revolutions examines Tunisia's last two centuries and demonstrates how geographical and environmental and social factors lie behind the country's modern political,…
August 14, 2017
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Q&A with Adila Laïdi-Hanieh (MAAS ’92)
Adila Laïdi-Hanieh is a 1992 graduate of the MAAS program. After graduating, Adila went on to receive her PhD in Cultural Studies from George Mason University. Adila is…
August 14, 2017
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CCAS Professor Awarded NEH Grant
Prof. Daniel Neep was awarded a 2017 Public Scholar Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support his research on the making of modern Syria. The Public Scholar…
August 11, 2017