In Conversation with Professor Rana Khoury Interview by Zahra Meshkani zahram2 Mon, 08/10/2026 - 18:00 August 10, 2026 Image Professor Rana Khoury is a political scientist who studies conflict, displacement and humanitarianism, with Syria a…
In Conversation with Professor Adam Osman Interview by Zahra Meshkani zahram2 Tue, 08/04/2026 - 14:53 August 4, 2026 Image Professor Adam Osman is a development economist who studies poverty and small firms, with Egypt as his main case and
Beyond the Textbook: CSAMES Workshop Brings Middle East Teaching Resources to Area Educators zahram2 Fri, 07/31/2026 - 14:05 July 31, 2026 Image The Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies hosted Beyond the Textbook, a professiona…
In Conversation with Professor Avital Livny Interview by Zahra Meshkani zahram2 Wed, 07/29/2026 - 14:34 July 29, 2026 Image Professor Avital Livny is a political scientist who studies Kurdish and Islamic politics, with Turkey as her main ca…
In Conversation with Professor Mukhtar Ali Interview by Zahra Meshkani zahram2 Thu, 07/23/2026 - 17:27 July 23, 2026 Image Professor Mukhtar Ali is a scholar of Islamic philosophy and mysticism whose work centers on the school of Ibn ʿArabi…
Sami Suhwail on his FLAS experience: "If it were not for the FLAS fellowship, I would not be enrolled at UIUC or any other university." zahram2 Thu, 06/04/2026 - 09:50 Image Sami Suhwail is a recipient of Foreign Languages and Area Studies
Congratulations to CSAMES Director Dr. Eric Calderwood for being awarded the 2026 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies for his book “On Earth or in Poems: The Many Lives of al-Andalus.” The prize is awarded to a work that tr…
The Nanovic Institute for European Studies, part of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame, has awarded the 2026 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies to Eric Calderwood, professor of comparative
Congratulations to Eric Calderwood, for receiving the 2026 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies for his book "On Earth or in Poems: The Many Lives of Al-Andalus" chahine2 Mon, 03/30/2026 - 11:14 Image Congratulations to CSAM…
2026 Pakistan Studies Lecture rbhttchr Wed, 01/14/2026 - 16:41 Professor Saad Gulzar, University of Notre DamePolitics, Bureaucracy, and the Promise of Better Governance in PakistanSaad Gulzar is an Associate Professor of Political Science
2026 Indian Languages and Cultures Lecture rbhttchr Wed, 01/14/2026 - 16:28 Context, from 7th century India to todayAn essential feature of modern language models is the ability to take context into account. A word’s meaning changes accordi…
Historian Antoinette Burton recently published a thought-provoking new edited collection titled Biocultural Empire: New Histories of Imperial Lifeworlds, co-edited alongside Renisa Mawani and Samantha Frost. This groundbreaking volume chall…