We are devastated by the incomprehensible human losses after the massive earthquake in Turkey and Syria. With our partners, we have located information on reliable sources to which you can donate: — Local Associations: Jewish Federations of North America (Turkey/Syria) SCM Medical Missions (Turkey/Syria) Sephardic Jewish Brotherhood of America (Turkey) Syrian American Medical Society (Syria) Turkish American Cultural Association

Arzoo Osanloo, Director of the Middle East Center and Professor, Law Society and Justice, discusses the current anti-government protests in Iran with scholars of Iran and its diasporas. The speakers contextualize the protests within the broader struggle for women’s rights in Iran and transnational feminist movements.

Affiliate Professor David Fenner is featured in the UW Daily on lifelong learning and his own life experiences living and traveling abroad.

Arzoo Osanloo, Director of the Middle East Center and Professor, Law Society and Justice, has been awarded the 2021 Herbert Jacob Book Prize, which recognizes new and outstanding scholarship for her book Forgiveness Work: Mercy, Law and Victims’ Rights in Iran (Princeton University Press, 2020). Read more

Frederick (Rick) Lorenz recently made presentations at two international webinars, one for the Hydropolitics Association in Ankara, Turkey and one for the Global High Level Panel on Water and Peace in Geneva.    On March 30 he made the presentation “The Role of Turkey in Promoting Integrated Basin Development in the Euphrates-Tigris Basin” to the Hydropolitics Association. They promote dialogue and