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You can find the most up to date information about the weekly MEHAT workshop on our new website here. This website will remain as a place to host resources about annual Middle East History and Theory Conference, now in its … Continue reading →

We are pleased to invite students and faculty to submit papers for the 28th Annual Middle East History and Theory (MEHAT) Conference, to be held May 3–5, 2013, at the University of Chicago. We welcome a broad range of submissions from across the … Continue reading →

Dear friends, as we wrap up the Spring quarter I would like to invite you to our second-to-last event: Dima Orsho, Syrian vocalist Noontime Concert Series Famous Songs from the Middle East Thursday, May 26 at 12:15 pm Fulton Recital … Continue reading →

Dear friends, it is a pleasure to announce that our official program for the 26th Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference has gone live. You can find all of the details at our Conference page, or just click the … Continue reading →

In honor of National Poetry Month the Faculty of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization will have a poetry reading night, in which scholars will read poems (in the Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Hittite, and Armenian and in translation) … Continue reading →

Dear friends, We’re excited to announce the first two weeks of our MEHAT schedule for the Spring Quarter. Mark your calendars! We will provide separate announcements for each individual event. Thursday, March 31, 12:00–1:30, Pick 218: Catherine Bronson. Paper title … Continue reading →

The Western Mediterranean Culture Workshop is proud to present this upcoming workshop, which we at MEHAT heartily endorse and encourage all to attend: Karla Mallette Associate Professor of Italian and Near Eastern Studies, Associate Director of the Center for Middle … Continue reading →

I’m pleased to announce the addition of two more workshops to our schedule, in co-sponsorship with the Western Mediterranean Workshop: Mohamad Ballan (Graduate Student, Social Sciences, University of Chicago) will be presenting his paper entitled “Between Castilian Reconquista and Ottoman … Continue reading →

Welcome back! سال نوی غربی مبارک باد ، وكل سنة وأنتم بخير We are pleased to announce our call for papers for the 2011 MEHAT conference, which you can see over at our conference page. It’ll be a fun quarter … Continue reading →