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 launch of its Annual Graduate Student Research Workshop.
The theme of this year’s workshop is “New Directions in the Study of the Arab World”.
The event will take place March 7-9, 2022 at the Rotana Saadiyat and will be convened by Erin Pettigrew and Nathalie Peutz.
The program received applications from doctoral students from around the world and an extensive review process was conducted to select this year’s cohort of workshop participants. They span the disciplines of History, Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Art History, Cultural Studies, Political Science, and Musicology.
Each graduate student will be paired with a NYUAD faculty member or senior humanities research fellow who will serve as a discussant for the student’s written work and larger project. The intent is to create a sense of intellectual community through the annual student cohorts and by establishing long-term mentoring relationships between these students and current NYUAD faculty.
We look forward to welcoming the following graduate students and their projects to NYUAD:
Alessandra Amin (UCLA), Mother Figure: Art and the Palestinian Dream State, 1965-1982
Arash Azizi (NYU), Cold War From Below: A social history of Communist internationalism in the Middle East (1943-1983)
Roy Bar Sadeh (Columbia University), "Recasting Minority: Islamic Modernists between the Middle East, South Asia, and the World, 1856-1947"
Elif Conker (Freie Universität Berlin), The Official Ottoman Perception of the Wahhabi Movement (1745-1818)
Rana Elbowety (Cairo University), The Process of the Canon (Re)formation: A Study of Selected Anthologies of World Literature
Ibrahim Gemeah (Cornell University), Secularism and Religion: Nasser, Islam and the Making of Modern Egypt (1952-1970)
Javier Guirado Alonso (Georgia State University), A global history about the independence of Qatar
Yui Leh Timothy Loh (MIT), Assistive Technologies for Deaf People in Jordan: Entanglements of Language, Religion, and Disability
Insia Malik (CUNY), Voice, Arabness, and the Vocal Talent Competition Arab Idol
María Pabón (Yale University), Agitated Layers of Air: Language, Cultural Decolonization, and Poetics of Solidarity across Algeria, Cuba, and Palestine
Ada Petiwala (NYU), 'We Pretend We’re in India’: Cultural Production and Consumption of India in the Arab World, 1990-2021
Jessie Stoolman (UCLA), Black and Jewish: The Social Life of Archives in North Africa
Arran Walshe (NYU), Martyred Citizenship: Law, Culture, and Sacrifice in Iraq
Salih Yasun (Indiana University), Structuring Inclusive Local Governance in Tunisia: Prospects for Political Participation in Emerging Democracies
The event is hosted by the Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World in collaboration with the History Program and the Arab Crossroads Studies Program.