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