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[Penn NELC Department @UPennNELC]

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[Penn NELC Department @UPennNELC]

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!

[Penn NELC Department @UPennNELC]

NELC's Richard Zettler's work on Iraqi conservation efforts!

https://t.co/Axg2teXSGH

[Penn NELC Department @UPennNELC]

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! 🎉🎉🎉

[Penn NELC Department @UPennNELC]

Welcome, Dr. Küçük!

[UPenn MEC @UPennMEC]

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

[Huda Fakhreddine | هدى فخر الدين @FakhreddineHuda]

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

[Penn Arts & Sciences @PennSAS]

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 https://t.co/ZHnkr8Dxyt

[Wolf Humanities Center @WolfHumanities]

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 @upennlib

[Fatemeh Shams @ShazzShams]

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

[ALIPH Foundation @ALIPHFoundation]

"L'arche de Ctésiphon en Irak sera sauvée" via @LOrientLeJour

#SBAH #Irak @iconem @UPennNELC @IraqHSP

https://t.co/gWP43A7YlO

[Penn NELC Department @UPennNELC]

Great mentoring and research work by our colleague Heather Sharkey here!

[Penn @Penn]

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. https://t.co/5fSyExeNdA

[Penn NELC Department @UPennNELC]

Congratulations to our NELC colleague Simcha Gross upon the publication of his new co-edited volume of papers on Jews and Syriac Christians!

[Penn NELC Department @UPennNELC]

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!

[Fatemeh Shams @ShazzShams]

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

[Penn NELC Department @UPennNELC]

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. 🎉

[Penn NELC Department @UPennNELC]

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”...

[ALIPH Foundation @ALIPHFoundation]

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!

[ALIPH Foundation @ALIPHFoundation]

👉 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

[ALIPH Foundation @ALIPHFoundation]

👏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.

[Antonio J. Morales @amoralesrondan]

The Seminar of Oriental Studies @UAHes announces the launch of the series Monografías de Oriente Antiguo (MOA). For any questions, please send email to [email protected]. @MuseeLouvre @UPennNELC @HarvardNELC @orientalinst @oeai_oeaw @AntiquitiesOf @NINO_Leiden @EssexEgyptology #NELC

[Penn NELC Department @UPennNELC]

@RaphaelCormack Ahlan wa-sahlan!

[Penn NELC Department @UPennNELC]

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