Tomorrow, Nov. 6 at 4pm, will be the fourth talk in our fall Islamic Studies Colloquium! Doctoral candidate Aneeq Ejaz will be speaking about "Competing Sovereignties: The Case of the 1949 Objectives Resolution in Pakistan". Join us in CAL 516 or on Zoom: utexas.zoom.us/j/98792658778

CMES will be holding a film screening of The Dawn is Too Far, followed by a Q&A with Co-Director/Co-Producer Persis Karim on Thurs Nov 12, 4:30-6:30pm in RLP 1.302B

UT community: join us on Wednesday, November 20 at 12:30 pm in CAL 516 for our 3nd annual Middle Eastern Studies dessert festival and competition! If you would like to enter the competition, visit bit.ly/MESdessert24. We hope to see you there!!

There's still time to sign up for the competition! Small prizes will be awarded to the top three contestants. *Note: you do not have to be present during the full event in order to enter. DM us with any questions!

Congratulations to DMES PhD student John Mellison for his recent article "A Morphological Reconstruction of T-Stems in Proto-Semitic," published in the Journal of Semitic Studies. The article is available to read online. doi.org/10.1093/jss/fg…

Last chance to enter the competition tomorrow!

DMES is delighted to share that first-year doctoral student Saman Javaherian was awarded the Alan Nadel Prize for Best Graduate Essay at the 2024 Narrative Conference. Saman's paper is entitled “Unreliable Narration and Falsified Dialogues in Persian Popular Romances."

Happy book birthday to Iclal VanWesenbeeck, whose translation of Halide Edib Adivar's remarkable Ottoman novel, Seviyye Talip, is out today from UT Press! utpress.utexas.edu/9781477330647/…

On Monday, December 9th, join us in CAL 516 from 12:00-1:00pm for a presentation by students in Dr. Nahid Siamdoust’s The Politics & Art of Iran’s Woman, Life, Freedom Uprising course. Register to attend (lunch will be served!): utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3r…

On November 14, Dr. Jeannette Okur moderated a discussion with PEN International President Burhan Sönmez. Read more and watch the video here: liberalarts.utexas.edu/mes/news/jeann…

This month, fourth-year doctoral student in DMES, Tyler Moser, published two articles in peer-reviewed journals and one book review. Congrats, Tyler! Read more on our website: liberalarts.utexas.edu/mes/news/tyler…

Congratulations to Professor Emeritus Dr. Mohammad Ghanoonparvar on the release on his new translation of The House of the Edrisis: A Novel, Volume Two by Ghazaleh Alizadeh from the original Persian. The translation can be purchased from Syracuse University Press.

Persian student and current undergraduate Michael Amin Mashhoon published a poem in the Fall 2024 issue of the Roshangar Undergraduate Persian Studies Journal published by the Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland. roshangarjournal.org/about-5-7

PhD student Pouya Nekoeui has published an article in Iranian Studies! Read more: liberalarts.utexas.edu/mes/news/phd-s…

Tomorrow at 12pm, join us for a virtual presentation by Healing Across the Divides and Mother Tongue, two organizations committed to improving public health in Palestine and Israel. Registration is required to attend. Register here: utexas.zoom.us/.../register/A…

Join us tomorrow, June 11, for a virtual discussion of the new CMES Emerging Voices title, Fear in the Middle of a Vast Field and Other Stories by Mustafa Taj Aldeen Almosa, translated by Maisaa Tanjour and Alice Holttum (distributed by University of Texas Press). utexas.zoom.us/meeting/regist…