New Directions in the Study of the Arab World
The Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World is pleased to announce the second Annual Graduate Student Research Workshop under the theme of “New Directions in the Study of the Arab World”. The workshop includes twelve doctoral students from a variety of disciplines and a range of institutions paired with NYUAD faculty who will serve as discussants for each session.
The event will take place March 6-8, 2023 at the NYUAD campus and is convened by Erin Pettigrew and Nathalie Peutz (NYUAD).
We look forward to welcoming the following graduate students and their projects to NYUAD:
Ahmed Abdelazim (University Wisconsin-Madison), In the Quest for a National Style: Islam and the State from 1967 to 1981
Alyaa Aljasmi (Sharjah University), The Effectiveness of Treatment Programs Provided for Drug Addicts and Psychotropic Substances in a Treatment and Rehabilitation Center in Dubai
Myriam Amri (Harvard University), To Turn A Currency Around: Central Bankers, Border Traffickers, and the Struggle for National Money in Tunisia
Melissa Camp (University North Carolina Chapel Hill), Sounding the Nahda: Musical Modernity in the Post Imperial Ottoman Empire
Brent Eng (University of California, Berkeley), The Bread of Mourning: Violence, Memory, and Touch Amongst Syrian Refugees in Tripoli, Lebanon
Irina Giorgadze (Tbilisi University), The Artistic World of the Syrian Short Story Writer Zakaria Tamer
Tanvi Kapoor (New York University), The Test of Waiting: Patience, Piety, and Power in Zanzibar (1920-Present)
Lama Karame (Oxford University), The Social and Legal Conceptualization of Childhood in Lebanon
Chaeri Lee (Indiana University), Āthār: Visualizing Vestiges of Time in Late Nineteenth-Century Iran
Mary Michael (University of California Santa Barbara), Media that Matters: Histories of Data Materialization in the Arabian Peninsula
Muhammad Ashraf Thachara Padikkal (Humboldt University/Groningen U.), Channeling Piety and Progress: Migration, Organised Religion, and the South Indian Migrant Islamic Groups in the Arabian Gulf (tentative)
Yasmine Shafei (American University Beirut), The British Governance of Mental Health in Egypt, 1882-1952
In addition, there will be a lunch workshop on How to Pitch a Journal Article with Joel Gordon (editor of IJMES, Professor at the University of Arkansas) on Monday, March 6 at 12-1:45pm. Joel will also be available for individual consultations with faculty and research fellows focused on publishing in an academic journal (when to submit, how to - and how not to - craft that first spin-off from a dissertation, etc.) on March 6-7.
The event is hosted by the Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World in collaboration with the Division of Arts and Humanities. Open to NYUAD only.