2020-06-15
- Professor Ghassan Moussawi's new book is the first comprehensive study to employ the lens of queer lives in the Arab World to understand everyday life disruptions, conflicts, and violence. From Temple University Press.
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2020-05-30 - These awards include the 2019 L. Carl Brown AIMS Book Prize in North African Studies; Honorable Mention for the 2019 Nikki Keddie Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association; Silver Medal for the 2020 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies from the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame. The book has also been translated into Spanish as...
2020-04-15 - CSAMES Associate Director Dr. Angela Williams has published the first book dedicated to female rap artists from the Middle East and North Africa and their representations of womanhood and girlhood. In Hip Hop Harem: Women, Rap and Representation in the Middle East (Peter Lang), Dr. Williams explores the themes of liberation and agency expressed by seven female...
2020-04-15 - Kenneth Cuno, professor of the modern Middle East, received the Illinois Student Government Teaching Excellence Award. This award is given by students to recognize and thank excellent instructors at the University of Illinois. We enthusiastically join his students in honoring and congratulating him! To read the full story from the Illinois News Bureau, go...
2020-03-09 - Professor Wail Hassan was selected as a fellow to work on a book project, "Arab Brazil: Literature Culture and Orientalism." For more information, go here.
2020-02-15 - The Tārīkh al-fattāsh is one of the most important and celebrated sources for the history of pre-colonial West Africa, yet it has confounded scholars for decades with its inconsistencies and questions surrounding its authorship. In this study, Professor Nobili examines and challenges existing theories on the chronicle, arguing that much of what we have presumed about the work is deeply...- 2019-12-16 - Click here for information on the Global South Languages Fellowships.
- 2019-09-20 - Professor Eric Calderwood's book, Colonial al-Andalus: Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture (Harvard University Press 2018), has been awarded the 2019 L. Carl Brown AIMS Book Prize in North African Studies. This prize, sponsored by the American Institute for Maghrib Studies, is awarded annually to the best book on North Africa.
- 2019-08-19 - In summer 2019, a CSAMES research assistant developed a website devoted to the history and current affairs of Yemen. The website offers text as well as multimedia sources and references-- including media, academic, and humanitarian. The goal of the site is to be a hub of a variety of reputable sources for the reader/viewer to consult. Click ...
2019-05-01 - The Fred M. Gottheil Faculty Award was presented in May 2019 by the Department of Economics at UIUC to Hadi Esfahani, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.- 2019-02-04 - Click here for full article.
- 2019-01-14 - Global South Languages Fellowship The Center for African Studies, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, through support from the Provost Office, are proud to announce a call for applications for the Global South Languages Fellowship. The goal of this fellowship program is to provide support for graduate...
- 2010-11-08 - Mahir Saul, Professor of Anthropology, has been awarded a research grant from the prestigious Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research for his project entitled "African Journeys in Turkey: From Suitcase Trade to Soccer." This project is a fieldwork based investigation to be carried out in Istanbul, Turkey. He was also awarded additional funding from the Research Board at the University...
- 2010-07-13 - Rajmohan Gandhi, Research Professor at CSAMES, will be honored with a Doctorate of Letters by the Liverpool Hope University in the United Kingdom; he is among four distinguished individuals to be honored at the graduation ceremony on July 13, 2010. Read the article from The Hindu, published...