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Farida Badr, was hosted on Nile TV's International Channel on the program, "Story of Success," to discuss her successes in the academic field as well as differences in academics between Egypt and the U.S. Badr has been a Lecturer of Arabic at UNC since 2010, where she teaches different levels of Arabic including elementary, intermediate, and [...]

“There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” -Rumi For the  past month, journalist Layla Quran and writer/photographer Aisha Anwar have been traveling across North Carolina collecting stories from Muslim community members. They have turned those stories into a multimedia exhibit that is currently on display in the [...]

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill political science professor Andrew Reynolds has co-authored a book exploring the Arab Spring, a series of pro-democracy uprisings throughout the Arab world in 2011 and 2012. The Arab Spring: Pathways of Repression and Reform (Oxford University Press, 2015) offers explanations for why regime [...]

Middle Eastern Librarian Mohamed Abou El Seoud recently introduced the Center’s faculty and graduate students to a new online resource, the Middle East Studies Guide. Part of the UNC University Libraries site, the guide provides links to collections of films, music, art, books and journals, and maps and data for [...]

On September 17, 2013, Dr. Zeina G. Halabi (Department of Asian Studies at UNC-CH) appeared on the Global Music Show on WXYC 89.3FM. The show explored contemporary indie and underground bands in the context of the Arab uprisings. Different in both genre and content, the songs selected by Dr. Halabi [...]

By Carl W. Ernst Persian art, language and culture, which is identified with modern Iran and adjoining regions, is one of the most formidable cultural traditions in the world, going back more than 2,500 years to the ancient Persian empire of Cyrus the Great. Spoken by as many as 70 [...]

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications from early-career social scientists affiliated with universities in the Arab world for semester-long fellowships in Fall 2015. With support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the fellowship offers advanced doctoral candidates or post-doctoral scholars within five years of their Ph.D. [...]

A $25,000 donation has doubled the Library’s endowment for Persian studies and will help to build collections that support this rapidly growing area of research and teaching at UNC. An anonymous donor has established the Pars Endowment for Persian Study. Funds from the endowment will help the Library acquire Persian [...]

On September 3, 2013, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense and the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations hosted the roundtable discussion “Intervention in Syria?: Problems, Prospects and Contexts” at the Global Education Center. The panel [...]

“RALEIGH — Caroline Zullo will always remember where she was when the Egyptian Army announced it had ousted President Mohammed Morsi. The UNC-Chapel Hill junior was sitting in front of a television set in the common area of her dorm – in downtown Cairo. Zullo was surrounded by Egyptian students and professors, [...]

In the October 2013 issue of Children and Youth Services Review, Sarah Dababnah, a doctoral student at UNC’s School of Social Work, and Prof. Susan Parish from Brandeis University explore the issue of autism in the West Bank. “ . . . discrimination and stigma from extended family members and [...]

Already appealing to top graduate students worldwide, UNC’s allure will only increase thanks to the creation of Roshan Institute Fellowships for Excellence in Persian Studies. These new fellowships, made possible through Roshan Institute Fund for Excellence in Persian Studies established by a grant from Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute, will provide [...]