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Spring 2019
In this issue
- GSMS Majors and Faculty Member will Explore Charitable Water in Cairo this Summer
- Notes from the Chair
- MESALC Interdisciplinary Lecture Series
- MESALC Interdisciplinary UVA Forum
- MESALC Professor Serves as an Associate Editor of Global Encyclopedia of LGBTQ History
- A Year in Re-View: Films & Festivals
- MESALC Faculty Lead J Term to Kerala, India
- Michelle Konik: 2019 Graduation Speech
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Spring 2018
In this issue
- Jefferson: Education as the Antidote to "Failed Revolutions"
- J-Term in Kerala: India in Global History
- Welcome to MESALC: New Hindi Instructor
- New Fall 2018 Courses
- New Faculty Publications
- Sajedeh Hosseini: Serving as a TA at Mr. Jefferson's School Brightened my Days
- Mehr Farooqi: A Night of Ghazals and Sufi Kalam
- Janaezjah Ryder: From Pune to UVA
- Hanadi Al-Samman: The Aesthetics of Trauma
- Aenon Moose's Speech at 2017 MESALC Graduation Ceremony
- Thomas Jefferson Makes his Debut on Arabic TV
- Envisioning 21st Century Middle East & South Asian Studies
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Spring 2017
In this issue
- Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates: The Many Meanings of Respect
- Introducing GSMS: The New Global Studies/MESALC Degree
- Michelle Sawwan: MESALC Graduate to Study Sociology of the Middle East
- Adrienne Resha: "There and Back Again"
- Ellie Beahm: Putting Persian into Practice in Tajikistan
- Josh Bocher: UVA in Morocco
- Abir Abyad: A Dream Becomes True
- Qasim Chattha: Of Poets and Shagirds, An Urdu Mahfil
- Lilly Crown: Menar Fellowship Recipient to Support Urban Refugees in Jordan
- John Al-Haddad: MESALC Graduate to Study Ottoman History at University of Chicago
- Global Currents in Place: Workshop Brings Together Scholars and Students
- Bridges, Not Walls: The Healing Power of Literature in the Middle East & South Asia
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Spring 2016
In this issue
- Thomas Jefferson Peace Studies
- Notes from the Chair: We've Come a Long Way: From a Founder's Dream to a Global Department
- Teach-In on Syria
- Praise for MESALC Students!
- MESALC Scholarship Recipients
- My Return to Afghanistan
- My MESALC Experience
- Public Days
- A Marvelous Thesis
- Student Awards
- Welcome to MESALC!
- UVA in Morocco
- New MESALC Courses
- New Faculty Publications
- Breaking the Cast(e): Linguistic Diversity in SATR 3300: Literature & Society in South Asia
- Critical Language Scholarship
- From Virginia to Tunisia
- Hope Emerged from You, and to You: Tunisia and the Nobel Peace Prize
- Arabic Calligraphy at UVA
- Playing Seeing, Working, Thinking: Citizenship in the Gobal South
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Spring 2015
In this issue
- MESALC: Some Facts and Figures
- Mehr Farooqi: Moth
- James Duke: A Wilderness of Possibilities
- From MESALC to Amman
- UVA Project Global Officer
- MESALC Welcomes Nizar Hermes
- UVA Summer Arabic Program
- From Exploration to Connection: A Personal Journey
- New MESALC Courses
- New Faculty Publications
- John Vater: Why I am in India
- A Glimpse into Refugee Resettlement
- Rebekah McCallum: From Charlottesville to Montreal
- Hassan, Mahvash & Farzad Milani Scholarship
- Alexandra Shofe: South Asian Studies Major Wins WGS Essay Contest
- Arabic Conversation Club
- Sarah Alahmadi: The Mirrors We Paint
- On Staging Art, Trauma, and Revolutions
- Student News
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Fall 2014
In this issue
- Synergies: Persian, Urdu, and Hindi in MESALC
- Notes from the Chair: MESALC: A Local Global Village
- My Summer with UVA in Jordan
- Mahmoud Darwish: He is Quiet and So Am I
- My MESALC Experience
- MESALC's Newest Faculty Member
- New MESALC Courses
- New Faculty Publications
- Calendar of Events
- Our Ongoing Mehfil
- An Ethnographic Documentary by MESALC Faculty, Ashok Rajput
- Hassan, Mahvash & Farzad Milani Scholarship
- Middle East & Women's Studies at UVA: A Stop on My Way Back Home
- Multicultural Student Services in the Office of the Dean of Students
- Innovative Collaborations: Synaesthesia and Inter-institutional Collaborations
- On Leopards, Cheetahs, and Persian Literature: An Interview with David Laylin
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Spring 2014
In this issue
- Our First Student: Thomas Jefferson
- Hindi Detective Fiction
- Notes from the (Interim) Chair: Celebrating MESALC's Achievements
- My MESALC Experience
- The Other Jordan
- The United Nations: Residential Intensive Arabic Program
- New MESALC Courses
- New Faculty Publications
- Calendar of Events
- "So if I say this at Yarmouk, no one will understand me?"
- A Month with Hoda Barakat
- Hoda Barakat's Month in Residence at MESALC
- UVA-Yarmouk 2014 Summer Program
- Faiza Saleem: MESALC Hosts Pakistani Fulbright Scholar
- Mahshad Mohit: Her Journey to the University of Virginia
- "A is for Arab" Exhibit
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Spring 2013
In this issue
- Cyrus and Jefferson: Did they Speak the Same Language?
- Project GO Grant to Support Critical Language Study
- Notes from the Chair: We, at MESALC, Take Great Pride in Our Students
- MESALC Graduate Student Wins Award to Study in Morocco
- Graduate Reflections
- MESALC Welcomes Three New Faculty
- Phi Beta Kappa Inducts Six MESALC Students
- Aash: A Poem by Zjaleh Hajibashi
- Arabic Lecture Series
- New MESALC Courses
- Introducing: Naomi Shihab Nye
- New in the MESALC Library
- MESALC Student Wins Fulbright Scholarship
- Iranian-American: The "Heritage Speaker" Phenomenon
- Calendar of Events
- "Unveiling the Self" In the Eye of the Storm
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Spring 2012
In this issue
- A Sermon in Stone
- Notes from the Chair, "We Believe in the Enduring Power of Words"
- Peacebuilding: A Life
- One Journey: Through the Heart of Peacebuilding
- Women in the Media
- Introducing Iranian Cinema
- Project Global Officer
- A Unique Program at U.Va.
- New MESALC Courses 2012
- Spring in Hindi-Urdu's Garden
- New in the MESALC Library
- My Year Abroad
- Critical Language Scholarships
- Jefferson Trust Grant
- Calendar of Events
- Thank You, Jessica Strang
- Writing Beyond Lives: Reflections on the "Alternative Biographies" Symposium
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Fall 2011
In this issue
- "Three Plus One Initiative"
- Notes from the Chair, "We Dream With Our Eyes Wide Open"
- "Rocking the Casbah at U.Va.," Guest Speaker Robin Wright
- "MESALC Welcomes New Faculty Members"
- "Pakistani Women Fiction Writers"
- "Three Portraits"
- New MESALC Courses 2012
- Graduate Student News
- New in the MESALC Library
- "Studies in Dushanbe"
- "Multicultural Poetry Night"
- Report on Fall Courses
- "Project GO Grant Extension"
- Featured Faculty
- Calendar of Events
- "The Literary City in South Asia," Symposium
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Spring 2011
In this issue
- "Teaching in a Time of Revolution"
- Notes from the Chair
- "Letters from Your Muslim Aunty," A Reading with Mohja Kahf
- Faculty Update
- U.Va.-Yarmouk Summer Arabic Program
- Alumni News
- Calender of Upcoming Events
- Featured Graduate
- 2011 Spring Lecture Series