A week with MAAS alum Hannah Beswick, Head of Partnerships at the UN Women Liaison Office for the GCC in Abu Dhabi Hannah speaks at the 2020 Provoke Mena…
By Vicki Valosik A new curriculum unit produced by CCAS and ACMCU The Education Outreach program at CCAS offers workshops, training, and curriculum support to help K-14 teachers develop their…
The MAAS class of 2020 at our virtual commencement By Maddie Fisher Left to Right: Maddie Fisher, CCAS Events Coordinator; Dr. Graham Auman Pitts, 2019-2020 ADF Fellow; Fadi Zuhayri, Former…
Professor Fida Adely discusses her research and in-progress manuscript Using My Education: Female Labor Migration in Jordan and Shifting Gender Dynamics. Professor Adely’s first book, Gendered Paradoxes: Educating Jordanian Women…
Celebrating women artists of the Arab world whose works have documented important historical moments and rallied for social and political change. By Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi Gazbia Sirry (Egypt, b.1925)…
CCAS faculty, students, and alums reflect on how the study of gender has impacted their learning, research, teaching, and field work. A few of the many books written by CCAS…
ONLINE: Thursday, May 21st at 4:30 pm An Introduction to UPF’s Newly Launched Islamic Spain Website Join CCAS Education Outreach Coordinator Dr. Susan Douglass and Unity Productions Foundation’s…
This year, the Arab Studies Undergraduate Certificate students presented their capstone papers in a virtual colloquium. Congratulations to each of you!…
In February, a ten-episode television series titled Andi Hulum, Arabic for “I Have a Dream,” premiered on Algeria’s Ennahar TV. The show—Algeria’s first entrepreneurship reality series—is produced by…
Unity Productions Foundation (UPF) recently released an updated interactive website on Islamic Spain built in partnership with CCAS. The website serves as a companion to the…
ONLINE, August 3-7, 2020 The Renaissance is often characterized as a humanistic revival of classical influences and an awakening of scientific endeavor and the arts. At the same time, the…
The Education Outreach program at CCAS, with support from Georgetown’s Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU), has produced a new teaching unit titled Islam and…
Congratulations to first year MAAS student Azim Wazeer, along with Tra Hoang (MASIA ’20), and Haris Fontaine (MSFS ’20), who came in first place in the 2020…
CCAS is pleased to participate in the competitive Bachelors in Foreign Service (BSFS) Scholars Program, which enables undergraduates to work on substantive research projects with faculty from across SFS.
The CCAS community was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Albert Aghazarian, a renowned scholar and activist, and the first graduate of the Master of Arts in…
The CCAS K-14 Education Outreach program conducts workshops for teachers in the Washington metropolitan region at Georgetown and at local venues with our partner institutions. We also conduct professional development…
Photo by Laurie Coyle Najib Joe Hakim works as a documentary and editorial photographer in San Francisco. He is a Political Art Fellow at the Yerba Buena…
Kelli Harris receiving her award from GU President John DeGioia The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies would like to congratulate Assistant Director of Academic Programs Kelli Harris, who was a…
