Skip to main content
Search form
Search
Department of Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures
Make a Gift
About
Contact Us
Languages
Arabic
Hebrew
Hindi
Persian
Sanskrit
Urdu
Academics
Undergraduate Program
Majors
Studies Major
Language & Literature Major
Distinguished Majors Program
Courses
Middle East
South Asia
Minors
Graduate Program
Placement Tests
Forms
Courses
People
Faculty
Affiliated Faculty
Adjunct Faculty
Staff
Student Opportunities
UVA in Morocco: Arabic Language
UVA in India
Extracurricular Activities
J-Term: UVA in Jordan
J-Term: UVA in Inda
Summer Language Institute-Arabic
News & Events
News & Activities
Publications
Newsletters
Video Archive
News & Announcements
SHEA House Application Deadline Year 2024-2025
September 26, 2023
Hindustani Music Residency 2023
March 30, 2023
MESALC Graduation Ceremony-Spring 2023
March 7, 2023
May 20,2023
Kristina Richardson winning The Medieval Academy of America publishing Award
January 31, 2023
SHEA House Application Deadline 2023-24
September 12, 2022
Spring 2022 Hindustani Music Residency
March 21, 2022
On Returning Home to Father’s Library: Mehr Afshan Farooqi
January 12, 2022
GIFTING DRINKING AND IRRIGATION WATER WITH SABILS
September 23, 2021
Ghalib: a Wilderness at My Doorstep The News Book Network Review Podcast
May 21, 2021
Podcast with Mehr Afshan Farooqi, author of “Ghalib: A Wilderness at My Doorstep”
May 21, 2021
Prof. Milani’s interview with Roqe Media, Conversations about the Iranian Diaspora
May 3, 2021
Congratulations to MESALC alumnus Nebil Husayn
April 8, 2021
Asian Review of Books
April 7, 2021
Regional Studies Consortium | The Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
March 9, 2021
Jaipur Literature Festival 2021: Mehr Farooqi discusses her new biography of Ghalib, and the challenges of translation
March 1, 2021
'Farewell Father': Shamsur Rahman Faruqi's Daughter Remembers the Legendary Urdu Critic
January 4, 2021
MESALC's Photo Gallery of Events 2019-20
December 2, 2020
Professor Huekstedt's Session at Jaipur Literature Festival
October 26, 2020
Professor Al-Samman's interview with Jadaliyya regarding the publication of Anxiety of Erasure
September 30, 2020
Coming Out/Coming In
July 20, 2020
MESALC Statement on Anti-Racism
June 9, 2020
“BEHIND THE ‘MANDALORIAN’ MASK: MEET UVA GRAD EMILY SWALLOW,”
June 9, 2020
MESALC Class of 2020 Congratulatory Video
May 19, 2020
Professor Geeta Patel's “Unforeseen Poet: How I Found Myself in Lyric"
May 19, 2020
Mehr Farooqi's From CAA to Lockdown in New Delhi
April 22, 2020
Professor Milani Receives 2020 Cavaliers' Distinguished Teaching Professorship Award
April 15, 2020
Professor Hanadi Al-Samman's Co-Edited Encyclopedia Receives 2020 Dartmouth Medal
January 28, 2020
Samhita Sunya's Middle Eastern & South Asian Film Series
October 24, 2019
Cavalier Daily Article on Professor Patel's Festival of Indian Documentaries
October 10, 2019
Professor Milani Interviewed by Deutsche Welle at Recent Conference in Berlin
October 10, 2019
Avijit Mukul Kishore Film Festival
October 2, 2019
to
October 4, 2019
Professor Hanadi Al-Samman Interviewed On al-Hurra News Channel
August 28, 2019
Rich Moroccan Culture Awaits UVA Language Learner
June 10, 2019
MESALC Graduation Ceremony - Spring 2019
May 18, 2019
Professor Mohammed Sawaie Receives The Jefferson Scholars Foundation Award for Excellence in Teaching
April 30, 2019
Professor Shankar Nair Receives Alumni Board of Trustees Teaching Award
April 30, 2019
Arabic Teacher Suad Mohamed's Review of MESALC Screening of "10 Days" Published in Aden Alghad News
April 4, 2019
Talk by Daisy Rockwell: "Translating Women's Writing: A Manifesto in Progress"
April 2, 2019
3:30 PM in 325 Wilson Hall
Exhibition by Artist and Author Daisy Rockwell
April 1, 2019
to
April 30, 2019
Mehr Farooqi Appears on TAGTV
March 4, 2019
McIntire Lecture Series On Manuscripts of Sultan Ahmad Jalayir
February 19, 2019
Professor Hanadi Al-Samman serves as an Associate Editor of newly published Global Encyclopedia Of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer (LGBTQ) History
February 5, 2019
Professor Milani Quoted in The New York Times
February 4, 2019
Spring 2019 MESALC Interdisciplinary Lecture Series
January 24, 2019
Spring 2019 MESALC Interdisciplinary UVA Forum
January 24, 2019
Professor Milani Visits Wesleyan College
January 10, 2019
New Spring 2019 Courses
November 5, 2018
Samhita Sunya Curates Film Series
November 1, 2018
Professor Milani Publishes Opinion Piece on Khashoggi Assassination in The Daily Progress
October 30, 2018
MESALC Interdisciplinary Lecture Series
September 21, 2018
to
November 30, 2018
301 Wilson Hall
MESALC Interdisciplinary UVA Forum
September 13, 2018
to
November 8, 2018
144 New Cabell Hall
Language Placement Tests
August 27, 2018
9am-5pm | Various Locations
NEW FALL 2018 COURSES
August 2, 2018
Envisioning 21st Century Middle East & South Asian Studies
April 6, 2018
to
April 7, 2018
Courts That Work: When Women Organize Against Violence
September 8, 2017
4pm | Global Grounds, Hotel A
UVA in India Promo Video