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 fourth Annual Graduate Student Research Workshop under the theme “New Directions in the Study of the Arab World”. The workshop includes thirteen doctoral students from a variety of disciplines and a range of institutions paired with NYUAD faculty who will serve as discussants for each session.
The event will take place February 24-26, 2025 at the NYUAD campus and is convened by Erin Pettigrew (NYUAD) and Nathalie Peutz (NYUAD).
We look forward to welcoming the following graduate students and their projects to NYUAD:
Aida Abbashar (Durham University), One Army, One People? Constitutional imaginings and futures in Sudan.
Gokh Alshaif (UC, Santa Barbara), Native Outsiders: The Marginalized Communities of Yemen, 1890-1960
Poorvi Bellur (Princeton University), Worlds beyond empire: towards a history of anticolonial solidarity across India and Egypt, 1880-1955
Mubarak Bisiriyu (University of Ibadan), Psychoanalytic exploration of selected novels of Ahmad Mourad
Jowel Choufani (George Washington University), Obligation and Relationality in the Wake of Critical Events in Lebanon
Sarah Dweik (Pennsylvania State University), Communicative “Old Cities:” The Rhetoric and Memory of Bethlehem and Hebron
Maroun El Houkayem (Duke University), Gathering the Orient: Manuscripts, Collectors, Religion
Natasha Gasparian (Oxford University), Militant Modernism: Revolution and The New Sensibility Movement in Beirut, 1967-1982
Jacinta Matheka (Makerere University), Of History and Representation: Re-Imagining the Aftermath of the Zanzibar Anti-Arab Revolt in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Fiction
Siddharth Menon (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Remittance Urbanism: Migration, Mediation, and Materiality in Transnational India
Mohamed Ndaro (Moi University), Muslim Women Activism through Film Video
Malak Quota (University of Essex), Defining a Filmic Identity Through the Aesthetics of Self-Censorship in Saudi Cinema
Aisha Valiulla (Northwestern University), Sailors, Scholars, and Wonders: Arabic Scholarship and the Medieval Indian Ocean World, 900-1400
The event is hosted by the Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World in collaboration with the Arts & Humanities Division and the Arab Crossroads Studies Program. Open to NYUAD only.