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'Protesting Jordan' by Professor Jillian Schwedler Praised
Schedler's new monograph was named a 2022 Notable Book of the Year by the National Endowment for Democracy.
The MESA Global Academy Connects Displaced Middle East Scholars in a Time of Crisis
The new joint initiative of the CUNY Graduate Center and the Middle East Studies Association, supported by Carnegie Corporation, offers an intellectual home for scholars from the Middle East and North Africa.
MEMEAC Family Achievements 202o-2021
The Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center celebrates the professional and academic achievements of our affiliated faculty and students.
Professors Beth Baron and Mandana Limbert Awarded Mellon Grant for Race and Middle East/North Africa Seminar
The Sawyer Seminar, hosted by the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center (MEMEAC), will be awarding a postdoctoral fellowship and two dissertation fellowships.
MEMEAC Adopts the Middle East Studies Association’s Statement Against Systematic Racism and Anti-Blackness
MEMEAC supports and is in solidarity with the statement by the Middle East Studies Association [MESA] on uprisings against systemic racism and anti-Blackness. The letter is quoted below: Black lives matter. We deplore the state-sanctioned murders of George Floyd, Tony...
Professor Louis Fishman (Brooklyn College) Releases New Book
MEMEAC congratulates Professor Fishman, a member of the MEMEAC community, for his recently released monograph "Jews and Palestinians in the Late Ottoman Era, 1908-1914: Claiming the Homeland".
A $400,000 Carnegie Corporation Grant Goes to The Graduate Center's Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center
The funds bolster a joint initiative to support scholars of the Middle East and North Africa region whose careers have been adversely affected by developments in their home countries.
Professor Mikhal Dekel (CCNY) Releases New Book
MEMEAC congratulates Professor Dekel, a member of the MEMEAC community, on the release of her new book "Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey"
Professor Elhum Haghighat (Lehman College) Releases New Book
MEMEAC congratulates Professor Haghighat, a member of the MEMEAC community, on the release of his new book "Demography and Democracy: Transitions in the Middle East and North Africa"
Op-Ed by MEMEAC Researcher in The Washington Post
Cracks in the Hezbollah Monopoly The Washington Post, 'Monkey Cage,' 1.8.15