Past News Articles
October 30, 2020
Sophia Rekeibe ’21 | Department of Music Raised in Flint, Michigan, Mona Haydar is a Syrian-American Muslim who defines herself as a rapper, poet, activist, practitioner of Permaculture, meditator, composting devotee, mountain girl, solar power lover and a tireless God-enthusiast (Haydar 2015). She started her rap career in 2017 with her ground breaking [...]
October 22, 2020
Panelists Leila Zonouzi, James Barry, and Ehsan Sheikhalharam participate in a panel discussion on “Love and Desire Across borders in Modern Iran and Diaspora” on Sept. 5, moderated by Rustin Zarkar. The Persian Studies program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently hosted a [...]
October 12, 2020
What Does Race Have to Do with Religion? Racialization and Worldwide Islam The Islamicate Graduate Student Association invites papers for our 18th Annual Duke-UNC Conference, one of the longest running graduate student Middle East & Islamic Studies conferences in the U.S. This year’s conference, “What Does Race Have to Do [...]
October 11, 2020
Through the Al-Amal Association, Noor Ghazi offers peacebuilding workshops to students in Iraq. Photo courtesy of Noor Ghazi. Considered one of the most important books in Peace Studies, Preparing for Peace by Dr. John Paul Lederach has recently been translated into Arabic by Noor Ghazi, a member of [...]
October 7, 2020
The Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies is excited to welcome Dr. Youssef Carter to as a center member. Dr. Carter joined the Department of Religious Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill in July 2020 as Assistant Professor and Kenan Rifai Fellow in Islamic Studies. Dr. Carter has a special interest [...]
September 25, 2020
The Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies is happy to welcome Dr. Ana Vinea as a CMEIS member. Dr. Vinea joined UNC in January 2020 and is currently teaching a first year seminar on 'Popular Culture in the Arab World' and an undergraduate class, 'Medicine and Modernity in the [...]
September 7, 2020
Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies Fall scene of UNC campus. Photo by Jon Gardiner The Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies, a partnership between the UNC Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies and the Duke University Middle East Studies Center, hosted a five-day, virtual seminar for K-12 teachers across the country from August 3-7. The seminar, “Diversities [...]
August 11, 2020
August 11, 2020 Virtual teacher session organized by the area studies centers at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke. Virtual teacher session organized by the area studies centers at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke. The area studies centers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University [...]
July 2, 2020
As of July 1, 2020, the Department of Asian Studies (DAS) is changing its name to the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (DAMES). The faculty voted unanimously in the fall of 2019 to change our name to more accurately reflect our teaching, research, and role within the university. [...]
June 15, 2020
The Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Duke University Middle East Studies Center, the Duke Islamic Studies Center, and the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies stand with the Middle East Studies Association and other national scholarly organizations in [...]
June 9, 2020
By GRANT HOLUB-MOORMAN & FRANK STASIO In the 1700s, approximately 5% of the pre-colonial United States was Muslim. Most of them were enslaved, and one of the foundational figures of early American Islam lived in North Carolina. Omar ibn Said has confounded scholars and translators for more than a century. Listen [...]
June 8, 2020
Each year, the Curriculum in Global Studies presents the Douglas Eyre Award for Excellence to the Global Studies major who produces the best senior honors thesis. We are proud to recognize Aisha Jitan as this year's recipient of the Eyre Award. Aisha's thesis, New Becomings in the Aftermath of Destruction: The Untold Stores of [...]
