A number of new classes are being offered at Columbia University for the first time this Spring. From Dr Elaine Van Dalen’s course covering medical practice in pre-modern West Asia to to Matthew L Keegan's course exploring the playful, edgy texts of the Maqama to contemplate new ways of understanding the relationship between adab and the Islamic tradition, there’s a lot to choose from!
Read MoreThe KITAB project is seeking researchers who are interested in collaborating to advance their own, distinct research projects. The aim is to build a small group of academics (6-8) who will work with our corpus of 1.5 billion words of pre-modern Arabic texts (700-1500) and our datasets (including for text reuse especially).
Read MoreMEI congratulates our affiliated faculty member, Dr. Amra Sabic-El-Rayess on her recently published young adult memoir which is already receiving rave reviews and lots of positive press.
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