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A&S faculty members will delve into questions ranging from quantum computing to foreign policy development and from heritage forensics to effects of climate change.
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This summer, 101 students in the College of Arts and Sciences will take part in groundbreaking research on campus with 61 faculty as part of the Nexus Scholars Program.
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Neala Gollomp graduated from Cornell in 2007 with a dual degree in Near Eastern Studies and Government. She is currently Senior Director, Product at Roku where she is responsible for the core experience across the Roku platform and The Roku Channel.
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Hannah Master is an archaeology and Near Eastern studies major.
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Danielle Greco Near Eastern Studies and Fine Art major
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Department faculty nominate undergraduate students each semester to receive awards for excellence in a Middle Eastern language. We congratulate this year's recipients!
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After graduation from Cornell University David Greenky spent four years working at a company dealing with international security with a focus on the Middle East, traveling often to Israel and the Gulf States.
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On April 20, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study, David Nirenberg, will give a talk on the history of anti-semitism and how it can help us understand debates about anti-semitism today.
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The program now has four endowed faculty positions, 28 affiliated faculty from more than 15 departments and nearly 40 courses offered each year.
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On March 28, Andy Warner ’06, author of the memoir "Spring Rain" and several other books, will explore the power of graphic media to tell true stories.
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Jenna started her studies at Cornell focused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, though she quickly discovered an interest in and passion for the languages, politics and cultures of the Middle East region more broadly. Jenna complemented her studies at Cornell with an abroad semester at SOAS University of London, where she focused her studies on Arabic, gender theory and international development.
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With about 70 students on campus from Syria and Turkey affected by the devastation in their countries, students, faculty and administrators have mobilized to create relief efforts.
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Ways to support those affected by the earthquake's devastation.
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Seema Golestaneh spoke with the Cornell Chronicle about her new book “Unknowing and the Everyday: Sufism and Knowledge in Iran,” published this month by Duke University Press.
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Long before Isaac Kramnick joined the Cornell faculty, he was a foster child from a family grappling with poverty and mental illness.
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I graduated from Cornell in 1994, having been both a College Scholar and NES major. Cornell, and the NES department headed by Professor Ross Brann, hold a special place in my heart and memory. I also grew up hearing from my grandfather about his years as a graduate student in the Agriculture school at Cornell, where he had come to study from Iraq.
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In recognition of his distinguished scholarly contributions to medieval studies, Brann will be inducted during the academy’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 25.
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"Without question, my years as an NES major had an enormous impact on my career path, my scholarship, and my teaching," says Dr. Lewental of his time at Cornell.
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This semester’s work also featured an end-of-semester mini-field course for local children and youth presented by two Cornell students.
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Pre-enrollment for Spring 2023 begins November 2 for undergraduate students at Cornell. Check out the courses offered by the department.
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Anna Kawar '06 started her time at Cornell initially planning on going to medical school; however, after taking courses in areas such as sociology, Near Eastern Studies, history, etc., she decided to broaden her possibilities for a future career.
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After graduating from Cornell University as an NES major and College Scholar in '02, Jonathan Levine moved back to the Washington, DC area to work as an international affairs fellow at the American Jewish Committee, a nonprofit advocacy organization.
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The study compiled decades of high-resolution satellite imagery from the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan.
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“These efforts recognize the critical questions Jewishness raises and its place as part of a shared heritage.”
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NES Ph.D. student Sasha Prevost received the UW Madison Summer Program Poetry Award.
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Adam Nerenberg '25 and Jeremy Zarge '25 both received awards for study this summer in Israel.
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As a student in the College of Arts and Sciences, Melanie double majored in Near Eastern Studies and Economics, exploring her two passions of international relations and business. After completing her undergraduate degree in 2014, Melanie spent three years working in the Healthcare Group in the Investment Banking Division at J.P. Morgan.
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The Department of Near Eastern Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University, seeks to appoint a tenure track assistant professor who specializes in Arabic and Islamic studies in the Middle East and North Africa prior to 1800.
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In a new book, Kim Haines-Eitzen explores the rich range of desert sounds and what they can teach us about place, the past, solitude and community.
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The Babylonian Talmud, a collection of rabbinic writings produced in ancient Persia, contains a great deal of medical knowledge, according to a recent book by the new director of the Jewish Studies Program.
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A&S faculty will lead many courses on campus and join educational vacations as part of Cornell Adult University.
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On Wednesday, April 20, a new campus student publication group titled Women of MENA celebrated its launch at the Johnson Museum of Art. The event took place in the Taking Shape: Abstraction in the Arab World exhibit.
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Dana Slayton is a Near Eastern studies major,
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Cornell University is pleased to announce a call for papers for an online workshop on “Judeo-Persian Literature at the Intersection of Jewish Studies and Iranian Studies,” held entirely on Zoom on December 6 and 7, 2022. The deadline to submit a proposal is June 10.
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Cornell and Morgolies Beitler's professors nurtured her passion and love of Middle East politics, particularly a deep exploration of the Israeli-Palestinian issue, along with women's roles in the MENA.
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Fifty undergrads in the College of Arts & Sciences will take part in paid research projects in Ithaca this summer with faculty from throughout the College.
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Pre-enrollment for Fall 2022 courses begins later this month. See a selection of the courses we are offering!
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Previously, Dr. Yiyi Chen Ph.D. '00 served as Director of the Institute for Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Peking University. Chen was one of the leading Biblical scholars in China and a pioneer in the field of Middle Eastern Peace Studies at Shanghai Jiaotong University. Chen was also the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Sino-Western Communications...
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The 3-D tour focuses on the building, its foundation, the archaeological excavation underway and a Civil War monument on the church site.
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Department faculty nominate undergraduate students each semester to receive awards for excellence in a Middle Eastern language. We congratulate this year's recipients!
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On Cornell’s eighth Giving Day, held March 16, 15,905 alumni, students, faculty, staff, parents and friends from more than 80 countries made gifts totaling a record-breaking $12,268,629.
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On March 22 co-founder and former leader of the Israeli Black Panthers will give a talk, "Darkness in the Holy Land: The Israeli Black Panthers’ Struggle for Human Rights and Against Racism."
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Gifts allow the College to fulfill its mission: preparing students to do the greatest good in the world.
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Dan M. Kasell graduated from Cornell as a Near Eastern studies major in 2002. Afterward, Kasell received a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania and was an associate with the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell for five years.
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With contributions from his family, former students and colleagues, the fund honoring Isaac Kramnick will support students beginning this fall.
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Registration is required to attend this virtual conference on April 4 and 5! Although known to specialists since the nineteenth century, the Aramaic incantation bowls have never been fully integrated into the field of Jewish Studies, largely due to their inaccessibility and the confounding nature of their contents...
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Ziad Fahmy won a 2021 book prize from the Urban History Association (UHA) for “Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt." Fahmy’s book was recognized for Best Book in Non-North American Urban History.
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Ezra Newman graduated from Cornell in the Class of 2016 with a major in Near Eastern studies and a minor in Jewish studies. During his time at Cornell he focused mainly on Judaism during the Roman and early Christian Period, on which he wrote his senior honors thesis.
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A&S faculty offer book and poetry recommendations for the new year.
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A $5 million alumni gift will help to support doctoral students in humanities fields within the College of Arts & Sciences.
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