“Believe it or not there is some good news out of Syria,” said Associate Professor and Chair of the Jackson School’s Latin and Carribbean Studies Center Tony Lucero in introducing

Join us for an event series with journalist Wes Enzinna, a writer whose cover story about a Kurdish-enclave in northern Syria was published in the November issue of The New York Times

The Middle East Center has published profiles of the current Academic Year 2015-16 Middle East Center FLAS fellows.   Read the profiles here.

“What’s important to remember about ISIS ideology that is not mentioned enough is their belief that the apocalypse is coming,” said Jackson School of International Studies Professor Daniel Chirot to

Join UW faculty on Tuesday, Nov. 24 for a roundtable discussion on “Paris II: Making Sense of the World” in Thomson Hall 101 at 7 p.m. On Nov. 13, a

Professor Naomi Sokoloff has published a blog article profiling Middle East Center FLAS fellow Jesse Lamp on ‘The Modern Hebrew Blog.” FLAS Fellowships support undergraduate, graduate and professional students in

Middle East Courses from International Studies, Anthropology, History, Near Eastern Languages & Civilization, Political Science and Languages.

The Herald of Everett mentions Professor Joel S. Migdal‘s book Shifting Sands, The United States in the Middle East in its editorial on Obama’s failed foreign policy. In his book,

Despite writing extensively on the Middle East as an author and journalist, Cengiz Çandar said the only thing he knows for sure about its future is that he can’t know.

Jackson School graduate students Nick Persons, Ruben Valencia, and Rachel Cook were awarded the State Department’s Critical Language Scholarships (CLS) for intensive language study abroad this summer. The CLS Program