2023-10-25
- Mithilesh Mishra, director of the Hindi and South Asian languages program in the Department of Linguistics, was honored for his contribution and commitment to Hindi.
He received the Service to Hindi Award from the International Hindi Association, which focuses on fostering India's cultural heritage through the promotion and propagation of...
2023-09-08 - “With extraordinary linguistic range, Calderwood brings us the voices of Arabs and Muslims who have turned to the distant past of Spain to imagine their future.”—Hussein Fancy, Yale University. How the memory of Muslim Iberia shapes art and politics from New York and Cordoba to Cairo and the West Bank. During the Middle Ages, the Iberian Peninsula was...
2023-08-25 - Humanities Research Institute Director Antoinette Burton has been chosen to take part in the 2023–24 cohort of the University of Illinois System Public Voices Fellowship. This fellowship, led by The OpEd Project, is a distinctive opportunity that forms part of a national initiative aimed at enabling faculty to amplify their expertise in ways that can contribute to public discourse on critical...
2023-02-23 - Beneath the surface of Islam Valerie Hoffman explores the cultures and subcultures of the Muslim faith Valerie J. Hoffman, research professor emerita in the Department of Religion, has served at the University of Illinois for more than 39 years. She’s gone from convincing the university that a position in Islamic studies was necessary to...
2023-01-13 - Riggs’ research will result in an urban history of post-Partition Delhi told through maps, individual accounts and images of home spaces. This portrait of Delhi’s built landscape history challenges assumptions about the perpetual aid-dependency of refugee communities, the potential effectiveness of public housing and the mutability of national belonging. Riggs’ book project, “An Archaeology of...
2022-10-26 - Asef Bayat, the Catherine and Bruce Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the Department of Sociology at UIUC was recently interviewed by the Tehran daily Etemaad on recent Iranian protests. Shortly after its publication, the Iranian authorities ordered the newspaper to take the interview down from its website. The interview had already gone viral in Iran and abroad, and...
2022-10-16 - Mabrook (Congratulations!) to Dr. Eman Saadah and the UIUC Arabic Debate team who competed in last week's Arabic Debate at Stanford University! Team member Suad Al Jawhari received first place at the national level for the AFL (Arabic as a Foreign Language) category, and the UIUC team was ranked # 2 nationally...- 2021-10-12 - Thursday, Oct. 7 Umm Kulthum, A Voice Like Egypt Thursday, Oct. 28 Sonita Wednesday, Nov. 17 We Loved Each Other So Much (residents of Beirut discuss their love for Lebanese singer Fairuz) Register Here!
- 2021-09-14 - Come join Professor Nazif Shahrani for "Afghanistan: Return to Taliban Rule after 20 Years of U.S.-NATO War on Terror?" on Wednesday, September 22, 2021, 7:00-8:30 pm (CST) on Zoom! Register at: https://tinyurl.com/6z99k33p
2021-06-24 - As the Associate Professor and South Asian Studies Librarian, Mara has a wide range of responsibilities, including collection development, research, instruction, reference support, and committee work both within and outside the library. Her areas of expertise are Hinduism, Indic Languages, and South Asian Studies. Although outreach and public engagement are not officially part of Mara’s...- 2021-03-02 - Thursday, March 25, 2021 7:00-8:30 pm (CST) prior registration required: https://tinyurl.com/4m33wnd9
2021-02-16 - Join us for an enriching conversation on Turkish coffee culture and tradition along with its journey from past to present. You will also learn how to prepare delicious Turkish coffee through a live demonstration. Our expert guests will talk you through the process while you observe the coffee-making experience. Bon appetite! Afiyet olsun! When: Feburary 23rd, 2021 | 12:00-1:00 PM CST Where:...
2020-12-02 - Executive Director Jerry Davila has announced that Professor Waïl Hassan has been appointed Director of the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies beginning January, 2021. Dr. Hassan is a Professor in the Program in Comparative and World Literature and the Department of English. His scholarship, which focuses on modern Arabic literatures, includes the books Immigrant...- 2020-11-15 - Department of Education Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Languages (UISFL) program awarded to the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (CSAMES) for the 2020-2022 academic years. The funding amount is $99,042 with cost-share contributions totaling $133,559 in Year 1 and $99,932 with matching funds of $128,494 in Year 2. Through CSAMES’ administration, the...
2020-08-15 - In this book Professor Livny presents a new argument for conceptualizing religion as both a personal belief system and collective identity. For more information, go here.