Past News Articles
June 28, 2021
Educators from minority-serving institutions (MSI) and community colleges across the southeast led panels about how they utilize resources from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke area studies centers to advance global scholarship and integrate global curricula in their classrooms. The “Connecting Your Classroom to the [...]
June 25, 2021
The African Studies Center (ASC) and Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies (CMEIS) value and uphold the principles of academic freedom. This freedom is necessary for us to conduct research, teaching, and service that furthers the interests of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the people [...]
June 20, 2021
by Kristin Waterbury Song, particularly hip hop, provides women with a unique platform to amplify their voices, combat stereotypes, and address social issues. The importance of music to women around the world is reflected in the lyrics of Palestinian artist Shadia Mansour: Give me, give me, give me the mic [...]
June 14, 2021
Throughout the school year, North Carolina educators request culture kits from Carolina Navigators to aid their classroom lessons. (Photo By Jeyhoun Allebaugh/UNC-Chapel Hill). Carolina Navigators, a service-learning and global education outreach program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, took K-12 classes around the world [...]
June 1, 2021
What are underreported stories, and where can we find them? What more do we learn, and connect with, by exploring underreported stories? On April 22, 2021, the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor’s Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies hosted a [...]
May 21, 2021
Our annual newsletter highlights center activities from the 2020 - 2021 academic year. Read to learn more about programming, highlights from our affiliated faculty and students, and K-14 outreach events. Click on the image below to view the newsletter, or download a PDF copy. Thank you for your continued support [...]
May 11, 2021
Women have long been underrepresented in key sectors of the United States federal government, particularly in positions of national security leadership, and this is especially true for women of color. In Spring 2021, the area studies centers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill convened a panel conversation with women who [...]
April 15, 2021
How to Teach about the Middle East -- and Get it Right: Experiential Learning about the Middle East through the Senses Barbara Petzen presents to educators on March 18, 2021 The five major senses of touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste provide creative and memorable opportunities for engaging [...]
April 15, 2021
Angela Chin’20 and Radhika Arora’18 Following a highly competitive nationwide selection process, Radhika Arora and Angela Chin were awarded a 2021 Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Fellowship. The Rangel Fellowship, funded by the U.S. Department of State and administered by Howard University, supports extraordinary individuals who want [...]
April 1, 2021
The Ever Given is underway again, but the global supply chain is reeling from the Suez Canal closing. A UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School professor explains why. Satellite imagery of the container ship Ever Given stuck in the Suez Canal. (Image courtesy of Maxar Technologies) On March [...]
March 24, 2021
Brent Van Vliet '20 The Old Well located on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Jon Gardiner/UNC-Chapel Hill) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Area Studies Centers and the UNC Curriculum in Global Studies hosted Global Career Night virtually on February [...]
March 19, 2021
Virtual Exchange Program Encourages Cross-Border Collaborations Between Teachers in the United States and the Middle East The Duke-University of North Carolina (UNC) Consortium for Middle East Studies and the University of Arizona Center for Middle Eastern Studies (UA CMES) have collaborated to establish the Teachers Collaborating Across Borders Program (TCAB) which provides a unique opportunity for [...]