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The Middle East, Hallucination, and the Cartographic Imagination

CCAS Professor Daniel Neep examines popular fascination with remapping the Middle.…

January 3, 2015

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MAAS Students Joudah and Kellou Are Co-Winners of Oxtoby Prize

CCAS is pleased to announce the co-winners of the Willard J. Oxtoby essay prize for an outstanding essay by a Georgetown graduate student on the question of Palestine and Middle…

December 30, 2014

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Tunisia caught between fear and stability

By CCAS professor Noureddine Jebnoun for…

December 19, 2014

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Vásquez, Erica. “Resistance in Occupied Western Sahara: women defining a society.” (Open Democracy)

Written by CCAS student Erica Vásquez for Open.…

December 14, 2014

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CCAS and ADF Launch Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Druze and Arab Studies

CCAS is pleased to announce the establishment of the American Druze Foundation (ADF) Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Druze and Arab Studies. The purpose of the ADF Fellowship is to…

November 15, 2014

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Announcing Kuwait-American Foundation Scholarship Recipient

CCAS and the Kuwait-America Foundation are pleased to award a full scholarship to Jordanian student, Ms. Afaf Khoshman. The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies Kuwait-America…

November 12, 2014

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Swingewood, Ellie. “Syrian Refugee Women in Lebanon: Gendering Violence through Johan Galtung.” (E-International Relations)

Written by CCAS student Ellie Swingewood for the E-International.…

November 10, 2014

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Malkin, Noga and Danforth, Nick. “Ghosts of the Future: Fears of a Phantom Referendum Haunt the Turkish-Syrian Border.” (Middle East Research and Information Project)

Written by Georgetown University History Ph.D. student Nick Danforth and Noga Malkin for the Middle East Research and Information.…

October 24, 2014

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Jamal Daniel Levant Foundation Features Scholarship Recipients

The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and the Levant Foundation are pleased to feature the 2013-2014 Jamal Daniel post-doctoral fellowship and scholarship recipients. In 2011,…

September 19, 2014

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CCAS Forges New Relationship with Peking University

CCAS Director Osama Abi-Mershed and MAAS Director Judith Tucker traveled in December to Beijing, China, where they participated in a Georgetown‰ Peking University joint…

September 5, 2014