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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

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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

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 Awards & Grants

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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