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Official feed of the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations | News | Events | Light from the East
Philadelphia, PA
Joined September 2016
Hello Twitter! Penn's Dept. of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations is now on Twitter. Follow us for news, events, and items of interest!
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We are pleased to welcome NELC’s new Department Chair, Prof. Heather Sharkey, a distinguished scholar of modern Middle East history and its religious minorities and an award-winning teacher. Welcome, Prof. Sharkey!
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NELC's Richard Zettler's work on Iraqi conservation efforts! https://t.co/Axg2teXSGH
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Three big new projects—restoration of a fortification gate, repair of an important landmark, and a survey of historic nonreligious architecture—recently got underway.
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NELC PhD candidate Mina Khalil has defended his dissertation, "A Society’s Crucible: Forging Law & the Criminal Defendant in Modern Egypt, 1820-1920", seen here with his committee, J. Lowry, H. Sharkey, and K. Fahmy (Cambridge) & NELC Chair Paul Cobb. Congrats, Dr. Khalil! 🎉🎉🎉
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Welcome, Dr. Küçük!
The Middle East Center is proud to announce that our new director, beginning in July 2021, will be Harun Küçük, Associate Professor in the Department of History and Sociology of Science. Read the full announcement here: https://t.co/vjfBcRnNLk
@bharunkucuk @PennSAS @Penn
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Meet the new MEL! Excited to work with co-editors @2illit_adab, @noraehp, and Charis Olszok! Check out our brilliant editorial board and our editorial principles here: https://t.co/7Z4aa5kiJX
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Learn about Middle Eastern Literatures aims & scope, editorial board, journal metrics and more.
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Translating poetry and literature is an intellectual, artistic, and even political act, according to Professors @EmilyRCWilson, Huda Fakhreddine, Dagmawi Woubshet, and Nili Gold. @penn @UPennNELC @UPennMEC @PennEnglish @AfricanaUPenn
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Translation is an art that allows us to communicate across cultural difference.
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Heather Sharkey (@UPennNELC), Wolf's Undergrad Forum Faculty Director 2010-12, is teaching the past & present of Middle Eastern & North African societies through cuisines in the class Food in the Islamic Middle East. Read more: https://t.co/gsAvUOz1zf
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It left Oxford, crossed the ocean and arrived in Philadelphia today. I saw it and touched it and confirm that it exists. 😄📚🖌 @OUPAcademic @OxfordMEC @UPennNELC @upennlib @Penn @UPennMEC @OrientStudiesOx
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"L'arche de Ctésiphon en Irak sera sauvée" via @LOrientLeJour
#SBAH #Irak @iconem @UPennNELC @IraqHSP
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Aliph et le ministère irakien de la Culture, du Tourisme et des Antiquités ont annoncé la mise en œuvre de mesures de stabilisation pour protéger l’arche de Ctésiphon (Taq Kasra), l’un des...
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Great mentoring and research work by our colleague Heather Sharkey here!
During a summer internship with Heather J. Sharkey of @PennSAS, four undergrads studied oranges, olive oil, coffee, and sorghum in an effort to understand their political, nutritional, and emotional value in the Middle East.
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Congratulations to our NELC colleague Simcha Gross upon the publication of his new co-edited volume of papers on Jews and Syriac Christians!
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Many many congratulations to our NELC colleague Fatemeh Shams, who has been awarded a Research Fellowship from @AvHStiftung for her research on the modernist poetry of Afghanistan and Iran!
Happy and proud to be a Humboldtian scholar. If the world won't collapse once again, I'll be spending the next academic year in Germany (Berlin and Marburg), starting from June 2021 to embark on my second book project. CAN'T WAIT! https://t.co/5wTGEvzqZi
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2. ... AND was awarded the 2020 Roger M. A. Allen Dissertation Prize in Arabic and Islamic Studies! He is seen here with committee members H. Sharkey, H. Fakhreddine, and J. Lowry. 🎉
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1. Many (belated) congratulations to DR. Matthew Sharp, who successfully defended his dissertation, “On Behalf of the Sultan: The Late Ottoman State and the Cultivation of British and American Converts to Islam”...
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In #Mosul, #Iraq, before work had to stop on Tutunji House due to #COVID19 precautions, some exciting progress was made on the rehabilitation work of the site. 👏 👏to @UPennNELC & State Board of Antiquities & Heritage Iraq. Follow this thread to see what they did!
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👉 Before pausing their work due to #COVID19 precautions, the site workers at #TutunjiHouse were hard at work to move all the marble fragments to the masonry yard. #ProtectingHeritageToBuildPeace #MosulMosaic
@UPennNELC @DantiMdanti @MosulEye
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👏Congratulations to the Tutunji Team -- @UPennNELC and State Board of Antiquities & Heritage Iraq 🇮🇶 -- on this great progress to rehabilitate this important, historic site. Until authorities give the green light to return to work, stay safe everyone.
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The Seminar of Oriental Studies @UAHes announces the launch of the series Monografías de Oriente Antiguo (MOA). For any questions, please send email to moa@uah.es. @MuseeLouvre @UPennNELC @HarvardNELC @orientalinst @oeai_oeaw @AntiquitiesOf @NINO_Leiden @EssexEgyptology #NELC
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We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Simcha Gross as our new Assistant Professor of Ancient Rabbinics! Follow him and his exciting work here at @Simcha_Gross
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Shelby Justl, Ph.D. student in @UPennNELC, studies the semiprecious stones of ancient Egypt in an effort to better understand the role that red jasper, carnelian, and others played in that society. https://t.co/FG3uXUlNw9
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Doctoral student Shelby Justl’s research expands what we know about who controlled semiprecious stones like red jasper and carnelian, plus their cultural and economic significance.
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