CCAS News

"Why Do Some Rebel Governments Last When Others Fall?"…

Daoudy writes that Assad's fall signals the beginning of a complex journey toward reconciliation, recovery, and rebuilding.

The Recanati-Kaplan Prize supports outstanding projects by culture creators and producers from the Arab world.

Congratulations to Thayer Hastings and Leen Alfatafta, whose papers were selected for the American Anthropological Association Middle East Section Student Paper Prize!…

Prof. Marwa Daoudy and adjunct Prof. Annelle Sheline wrote for the Better World Order Report…

Ryan Zohar, Middle East Studies Liaison & Reference Librarian, published two articles for MELA Notes and The American Archivist…

Prof. Noureddine Jebnoun publishes article with Jakob Plaschke (MAAS '22) titled "Peripheral resistance: geographies of occupation and policing in Tunisia." …

MAAS alum Samar Saeed speaks with Al Jazeera about the destruction of education in Gaza…

CCAS Events and Programs Manager, Coco Tait, interviewed our 2024-2025 post doctoral fellows. Natalie El-Eid What brought you to be interested in contemporary transnational literature and cultures…

Prof. Marwa Daoudy contributed to an article for the journal Geoforum titled, ” At the crossroads – Critical perspectives on the study of climate security”…

We are pleased to welcome the fall incoming class of students to the Master of Arts in Arab Studies program. This year’s incoming group is one of our largest…

Faculty from the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and the African Studies Program at Georgetown University worked together to create a selection of books (and one film!) about Sudan. Take…

"Against “Double Erasure: Women’s filmmaking in the aftermath of the uprisings in Yemen, Libya, and Saudi Arabia"—co-authored with Eva Oseen…

Daoudy and others discuss the devastating impact of militarism on the environment…

Welcome to the new CCAS Assistant Academic Director, Dharini Parthasarathy!…

CCAS has responded to the war in Gaza by holding more than a dozen workshops and teach-ins to help educate the Georgetown community and larger public on the history of…

How the Education Outreach Program at CCAS has been helping teachers address the rise in Islamophobia…

SFS Professors Nader Hashemi, Jonathan Lincoln, and CCAS Director Fida Adely reflect on what it means to educate and care for students in this present moment.

Reflections by two CCAS faculty on teaching about the Israel-Palestine conflict in this historic moment.

MAAS alum Michael Fischbach discusses his research on connections between the Black Freedom movement of 1960s America and the Palestinian struggle for liberation.

Student Shifaa Alsairafi explores how Prof. Mandell's film provides an historical record for daily life in Gaza under occupation.

An interview with CCAS Qatar Postdoctoral Fellow Adey Almohsen on his research historicizing Palestinian thought in the years between the Nakba and the Six Day War…

MAAS alum Omar Shakir has spent his career documenting and calling out mass atrocities committed against Palestinians.

“Still Without End” by Giuliana Roviello; Courtesy of the Palestine Poster Project. By Rochelle Davis In my book, Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced (Stanford University…

Still haven’t decided what to read this summer? Take your pick from the CCAS faculty summer reading list for 2024 to get a kickstart on your page count…