The Hebrew University of Jerusalem hosts a workshop annually that is open to a small number of university instructors of Hebrew language, chosen from among applicants from all over the world. This past summer, Tovi Romano, the Herbert I. Rosen Lecturer in Modern Hebrew, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, attended the workshop with

2015 Community College Master Teacher Institute sponsored by all the National Resource Centers at the University of Washington was held July 9-10 and attended by thirty-five community college instructors from the Pacific Northwest. The theme for this year’s Institute was: “Human Migration and Refugees: Peril and Hope.” The Middle East Center sponsored a session facilitated

JSIS 487 A/587 A | 5 credits Tuesdays 1:30-4:20 | DEM 126 | SLN 16656 Instructor: Kristian Coates Ulrichsen COURSE DESCRIPTION It has become increasingly clear that much of the Middle East and North Africa is facing an escalating governance and institutional crisis that spans states that experienced upheaval in 2011 as well as those

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,