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The Arabic Program The Arabic Program offers a five-year sequence (novice to advanced) in modern Arabic, as well as courses in Classical Arabic and special topics. The Arabic Program is housed in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations...

Arabic Studies Beyond Arabic: Integrating the Western Humanities Canon

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The Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program is proud to announce the inaugural event in the Islamic Studies Seminar Series "Arabic Studies Beyond Arabic: Integrating the Western Humanities Canon" Dimitri Gutas Professor of Arabic and Greco-Arabic, Near Eastern...

Workshop Announcement: Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language

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HARVARD UNIVERSITY Teaching Arabic as a Second/Foreign Language: Level One Workshop Workshop Time: August 19 to August 23, 2024, Daily from 10am to 2:30pm Washington DC time (EST) Workshop Tuition: None Workshop Language: Arabic Workshop Audience...

Arabic Reading/Translation Workshop

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Faculty Advisor: Prof. Shady H. Nasser (NELC), snasser@fas.harvard.edu Graduate Student Coordinator: Conor Dube (NELC), cdube@g.harvard.edu The Arabic Reading Workshop brings graduate students and faculty together to read Arabic texts that a student is...

Teaching Arabic as a Second Language: Level One Workshop

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Workshop Time: 13 - 17 January 2025, Daily from 9am to 2:00pm Washington DC time (EST) Workshop Location: Via Zoom Workshop Tuition: None Workshop Language: Arabic Workshop Audience: Priority for new, second-language Arabic instructors (5 years or fewer...

Arabic Reading Workshop: Wheeler M. Thackston

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Prof. Wheeler M. Thackston will be joining us as part of the Arabic Reading Workshop on Monday, November 13th, 4-6 p.m., in HSM 201. Prof. Thackston will speak about his ongoing and a number of previous projects, followed by Q&A and conversation over...

RSVP: Harvard TEI Arabic Workshop (April 2-3, 2026)

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Harvard TEI Arabic workshop, April 2-3 (Thursday-Friday) 2026 Join us for a two-day Arabic digital humanities workshop to learn TEI (Textual Encoding Initiative) mark-up of Arabic-script texts for critical digital editions. Hugh Cayless (TEI treasurer...

(Cross-Promotion) Yale Arab Conference 2018

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The Ascendant Field: Critical Engagements with Ottoman Arabic Literature

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The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC), the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) present the workshop Critical Engagements with Ottoman Arabic Literature: The...

Workshop on Arabic & Islamic Studies

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Faculty Adviser: Khaled El-Rouayheb, kel@fas.harvard.edu Graduate Student Coordinators : Sarah Aziz, saziz@g.harvard.edu Hany Ramadan, hramadan@g.harvard.edu Youssef El Alaoui, youssef_elalaoui@g.harvard.edu The Workshop on Arabic & Islamic Studies (WAIS)...

Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East

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Adam Mestyan, Associate Professor of History, Duke University In this talk, I argue that the concepts of new imperial history better describe and explain state-making among the post-Ottoman Arab peoples than the old national, imperial, colonial, and...

From Arabic to Persian and Halfway Back Again: Naṣr Allāh Munshī’s Kalīla and Dimna

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The adaptation of Kalīla and Dimna written by Abū al-Maʿālī Naṣr Allāh Munshī in the 1140s CE is a cornerstone work of classical Persian prose literature—but there is a subtle tension in both its conception and its reception. Naṣr Allāh translated this...