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Falconry: The history of hunting with birds of prey
Rajan Datar asks what lies at the heart of the bond between humans and raptors, and explores the modern-day challenges to this ancient, and at times controversial, practice.
BBC World Service – The Forum
Preserving Arabia’s Bedouin Poetry
In 1989, diplomat and linguist Marcel Kurpershoek set out to meet poets and record their verses. It became a lifetime project that continues to illuminate roots of the Arabic language and Arabian Peninsula cultures.
AramcoWorld | May/June 2021
Cement, War, and Toxicity: The Materialities of Displacement in Iraq
Huma Gupta and Gabi Kirk, discuss with Kali Rubaii how ecologies of war have produced multiple waves of displacement and have intimately shaped the lives of displaced Iraqis through the materiality of cement.
Jadaliyya
‘The Rise and Fall of Opec’ is essential reading to understand the modern world and Middle East
Giuliano Garavini's book is a corrective to Western-centric accounts of the organisation, and a rare insight into international diplomacy at work.
The National
Resident Expert: Early Writings in Arab Feminism
NYUAD Senior Research Fellow Marilyn Booth's recent work demonstrates how scholarly research can work: you never know what will catch your attention.
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Michael Christopher Low Wins 2021 Albert Hourani Book Award
Michael Christopher Low has earned the Albert Hourani Book Award from the Middle East Studies Association for his book Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj.
MESA | December 2021
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NEH Announces $24 Million for 225 Humanities Projects Nationwide
The Bat Archaeological Project has been selected as a recipient of the 'Archaeological and Ethnographic Field Research' grant by the US National Endowment for the Humanities.
National Endowment for the Humanities | April 14, 2021
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The European Qur’an (EuQu) Awarded €10 million ERC Synergy Grant
Dr. Jan Loop, along with an international team of researchers, will study how the Quran has been interpreted, adapted, and used in Christian Europe from the Middle Ages through to early modern history.
European Research Council | October 23, 2018
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