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CCAS Announces Winners of its Oxtoby Essay Prize
CCAS is pleased to announce the co-winners of the Willard J. Oxtoby essay prize for outstanding essays by a Georgetown graduate student on the question of Palestine and Middle…
September 18, 2008
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Nautré, Zoé. “U.S. Interests in the Arab World: Democracy Promotion by American NGOs.” (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 2008)
Zoé Nautré, a Ph.D. candidate at the Freie Universität Berlin and a visiting scholar at CCAS during the 2007-2008 academic year, recently published a paper with the German…
September 15, 2008
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MAAS Student Makes Film About Life in Doha
MAAS student Kate Eyerman wanted to properly document the 2007-2008 academic year she spent studying Arabic at Qatar University (QU) in Doha, so she and her roommate, Macey…
September 10, 2008
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CCAS Organizes Teacher Trip to Morocco
From July 27 to August 11, 2008, twelve educators got the experience of a lifetime by touring six cities and towns in Morocco: Casablanca, Marrakech, Fez, Chefchouen, Asilah, and…
August 15, 2008
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MAAS Students’ Art Displayed at American University’s Katzen Arts Center
MAAS student Jessica Devaney and 2008 MAAS graduate Natalia Sancha Garcia were featured in a summer art exhibit, "Multiplicitocracy," at American University's Katzen Arts Center…
August 5, 2008
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Dr. Samer Shehata, Assistant Professor in the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, responded to questions in a May 28 live dial
Dr. Samer Shehata, Assistant Professor in the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, responded to questions in a May 28 live dialogue on IslamOnline.net. The subject of the…
May 28, 2008
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CCAS Mourns the Loss of Dr. George Atiyeh, Dr. Andrew Vincent, Dr. Louis Cantori, and Ambassador Lucius Battle
Dr. George Atiyeh, a respected member of the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies' Advisory Board from the early 1980s until 1997, passed away in April after a long illness. Dr.…
May 13, 2008
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Israeli and Palestinian Histories Explored in Spring Outreach Workshop
Thirty-two area educators gathered April 28 for a CCAS outreach workshop entitled "Israelis and Palestinians: Shared History, Entangled Narratives." Zeina Seikaly, CCAS Director…
April 28, 2008
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CCAS Scholarship Program Featured in Qatar Newspapers
Al-Arab's article, entitled "Americans Compete to Study Arabic at Qatar University," discusses the cooperative relationship between CCAS and Qatar University (QU) that enables…
April 12, 2008
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National Public Radio: Samer Shehata comments on Modernity and Islam
In March 2008, Professor Samer Shehata was featured on NPR's Marketplace, commenting on the relationship between Islam and.…
March 13, 2008