Course offerings across the University of Washington for Middle East Studies in Autumn 2016.

Terri DeYoung, Associate Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, has just published Mahmud Sami al-Barudi: Reconfiguring Society and the Self (Syracuse University Press, 2015). Mahmud Sami al-Barudi (1838-1904) was an important Egyptian political figure and prominent poet. DeYoung charts the development of his poetry through his youth, his career in government culminating as prime minister

Lindsay Church, a Middle East Studies MA student, presented a paper titled “The Weaponization of Water in the Euphrates-Tigris Basin” at a February conference in Washington, D.C. sponsored by the PILPG Law Firm on Weaponizing Water: The Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. Assisting with the research for the paper were: Jesse Lamp. Middle East

Ellis Goldberg, Professor Emeritus of Political Science will present a public lecture titled “The Urban Roots of the Arab Spring” at the Institut francaise du Proche-Orient, Beirut, Lebanon, on March 19, 2015.

David Fenner, Affiliate Faculty, Middle East Center, introduced the Center’s new “Bridging Cultures” project to a group of 120 K-8 educators at the February 7, 2015 Washington State Council for the Social Studies K-8 Winter Conference titled “Global Issues/Local Connections.” Fenner’s presentation was titled “Muslims in Our Classrooms” Differences, Challenges, and Expectations.”

Frances Wilson, International Studies and Mathematics major, served an internship at the Marine Corps University last summer working on issues related to the Arab Spring. His research has just been published in an article titled “Outsourcing Repression: The Impact of Foreign Fighters on the Arab Spring” in the Journal of Undergraduate International Studies, 17 (Fall,