Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, recently traveled to Pakistan:

The Daily Times, 01/19/2017:  Ali Sethi pays ode to regional poets with Harvard Professor Dr Ali Asani Read more about Professor Ali Asani travels and lectures in Pakistan, January 2017

Ann and Jim Rothenberg Fund for Humanities Research Grant
Nov. 2016: awarded $5,000
Project: “Harvard and Egyptian Archaeology: The Lost Ashton Sanborn Papers” Part 2
Peter Der Manuelian, NELC/Anthropology, Harvard Semitic Museum Read more about Peter Manuelian awarded Rothenberg and Provostial research funds

A ‘tangible dimension’: Learning by making, listening, and tasting

Gojko Barjamovic, Lecturer on Assyriology, increases student learning in ANE 103 Ancient Lives by designing activities to engage students’ full range of senses. “To convince people to commit a semester of study to ancient history, you have to make it meaningful."

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His proposal Digital Epigraphy: A New Approach to Documenting Art and Archaeology is in support of Peter's Egyptian 200 class (fall 2016). The class is a graduate level course in the reading of primary Egyptian texts. This semester features readings in Old Egyptian, along with basic training in digital epigraphy.

The amount of the award is $10,762. More information on the Barajas Dean’s Innovation Fund for Digital Arts and Humanities may be found here.

Peter Manuelian, Philip J. King Professor of Egyptology, received a $6,000 grant from the Anne and Jim Rothenberg Fund for Humanities Research. His project "Harvard and Egyptian Archaeology: The Ashton Sanborn Papers", will process a Harvard-MFA Expedition Egyptologist’s letters currently housed in Schlesinger Library. Read more about Peter Manuelian received a grant from the Rothenberg Fund

We are pleased to announce that Justine Landau, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, is the recipient of the World Award for the Book of the Year of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the field of Iranian studies, for her 2013 book, De rythme & de raison. Read more about Justine Landau receives award for Book of the Year in Iranian studies

Congratulations, Professor Levenson!

The love of God is perhaps the most essential element in Judaism—but also one of the most confounding. In biblical and rabbinic literature, the obligation to love God appears as a formal commandment. Yet most people today think of love as a feeling. How can an emotion be commanded? Jon D. Levenson, Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies at Harvard University, recently took the time to answer questions about his new book, The Love of God: Divine Gift, Human Gratitude, and Mutual Faithfulness in Judaism. Read more about Professor Jon Levenson published a new book "The Love of God"

David Stern, Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature has published Jewish Literary Cultures: Volume I, The Ancient Period (Penn State University Press). Read more about David Stern has published a new book

Ancient Near East 103: Ancient Lives

Students in ANE 103, through music and taste connected with the ancients.
Barjamovic, a lecturer on Assyriology and instructor for Ancient Lives noted that the class demonstration with the musical instrument replicas sent a clear message that “music is one of the baselines of human existence. There isn’t a culture on this planet that doesn’t have music, and here we have the chance to hear a piece of it over a distance of 3,500 years.” Read more about NELC course Ancient Near East 103 in Harvard Gazette: watch video

In July 2015, Khaled El-Rouayheb, James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic and of Islamic Intellectual History, published a new book: Islamic Intellectual History in the Seventeenth Century: Scholarly Currents in the Ottoman Empire and the Maghreb (Cambridge University Press). It appears to be a major - field-changing - work, judging from the early reviews Read more about Book published by Khaled el-Rouayheb, on Islamic Intellectual History

Philip J. King Professor of Egyptology Peter Der Manuelian's Giza Project is featured on this NEH website, "Preserving the Cultural Heritage of the Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean World" Read more about Professor Peter Der Manuelian's Giza Project is featured...

Robert Homsher , College Fellow in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, made the first presentation of the NELC Professional Development Series. This series of talks, lectures and workshops by NELC faculty is intended to help graduate students prepare for a career in academia. Read more about Rob Homsher made the first presentation of the

Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, gave the Annemarie Schimmel Memorial Lecture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, on January 23, 2015. See a video of the lecture at this link: http://www.metmuseum.org/metmedia/video/lectures/god-is-beautiful Read more about Ali Asani gave the Annemarie Schimmel Memorial Lecture