{"id":13251,"date":"2020-09-23T17:14:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T17:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/?page_id=13251"},"modified":"2020-09-23T17:14:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T17:14:51","slug":"featured-program-the-horn-of-africa-initiative","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/featured-program-the-horn-of-africa-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Program: The Horn of Africa Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-13256 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2020\/09\/ethiopian-art-faces-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"321\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2020\/09\/ethiopian-art-faces-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2020\/09\/ethiopian-art-faces-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2020\/09\/ethiopian-art-faces-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2020\/09\/ethiopian-art-faces-375x375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2020\/09\/ethiopian-art-faces-750x750.jpg 750w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2020\/09\/ethiopian-art-faces-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2020\/09\/ethiopian-art-faces.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/>In 2018, the unexpected popularity of a University of Washington course in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Geez-language\"> Ge&#8217;ez<\/a> &#8212; an ancient Ethiopic language still used in Christian and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/fa\/originals\/2017\/06\/geez-language-only-left-in-lithurgy.html\">Jewish<\/a> liturgies today &#8212; sparked the <a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/africa\/horn\/\">Horn of Africa Initiative,<\/a> a collaboration between UW faculty, students, and local communities.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The Horn of Africa region embraces the modern countries of Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti, and is home to a rich array of cultural, literary, and spiritual traditions, with deep historical roots and dynamic contemporary practices. Despite the region\u2019s importance, it remains poorly understood and understudied in the American academy. Few American universities possess experts on the region, and fewer still offer courses devoted to its languages, history, and cultures.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Washington\u2019s Horn of Africa Initiative seeks to fill this gap by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Building new curriculum on the history, languages, and cultures of the Horn of Africa.<\/li>\n<li>Creating new knowledge about the region through research and dialogue.<\/li>\n<li>Expanding the university\u2019s connections to the Horn heritage communities of the Pacific Northwest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the full story about the birth of the Horn of Africa Initiative\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/history.washington.edu\/news\/2019\/11\/18\/history-students-and-faculty-team-local-communities-horn-africa-initiative\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/africa\/horn\/\">learn more<\/a> about the Initiative and its events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018, the unexpected popularity of a University of Washington course in Ge&#8217;ez &#8212; an ancient Ethiopic language still used in Christian and Jewish liturgies today &#8212; sparked the Horn of Africa Initiative, a collaboration between UW faculty, students, and local communities. The Horn of Africa region embraces the modern countries of Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea,<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/featured-program-the-horn-of-africa-initiative\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":637,"featured_media":13255,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13251","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Featured Program: The Horn of Africa Initiative - Center for Global Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/featured-program-the-horn-of-africa-initiative\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Featured Program: The Horn of Africa Initiative - Center for Global Studies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In 2018, the unexpected popularity of a University of Washington course in Ge&#8217;ez &#8212; an ancient Ethiopic language still used in Christian and Jewish liturgies today &#8212; sparked the Horn of Africa Initiative, a collaboration between UW faculty, students, and local communities. 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