The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies would like to congratulate the latest class of Master of Arts in Arab Studies graduates! We are so excited to see what your…
In this interview, Coco Tait speaks with Kannithi Traitonwong. Kannithi received the Royal Thai Government Scholarship for his undergraduate and graduate studies with a concentration on the Arabic…
In this interview, Coco Tait speaks with current student Lucie Weismueller. Lucie graduated from the University of Erfurt with a B.A. in International Relations and a minor in Social…
Below are full biographies of speakers for Georgetown University’s “The Druze in their Adopted Lands” conference held on April 14th and April 15th, 2023. Please visit the conference page…
In this interview, Coco Tait speaks with current student Avraham Spraragen, who is pursuing a dual M.A.A.S./J.D. degree at Georgetown School of Foreign Service and Georgetown Law.
Below are full biographies of speakers for Georgetown University’s “Iraq 2023: Twenty Years On” conference held on March 31, 2023. Please visit the conference page to register. …
In this interview, Coco Tait speaks with current student Albert Vidal Ribe, a Fulbright Scholar interested in the foreign and security policies of the UAE, Qatar,…
Dear CCAS Community, The earthquake on February 6 left people in Turkey and Syria hungry, thirsty, cold, without shelter and scared. As many of you have reached out to ask…
Alice Katherine Fakhry (née Shiber), born in Jerusalem, passed away peacefully in Virginia on January 2, 2023. She was married for 66 years to her late, loving husband, Dr.
In this interview, Coco Tait speaks with alumni Motasem Abuzaid (MAAS ‘22) and Azim Wazeer (MAAS ‘21), who are both currently doctoral candidates in politics at St…
From cholera, to plague, to COVID-19, contagious diseases have shaped human history in profound ways and offered MENA historians unique lenses into the past.
MAAS student Laila Jadallah and alum Samar Saeed on the generation of Palestinian women whose stories informed their understanding of history and helped shape their own cultural identities…
Revolutionary projects across the region demonstrate the power of oral history to give voice to once-silenced communities and to capture history as remembered by those who lived it.