Islam, the Humanities and the Human

Register in advance for this webinar:  https://rutgers.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yB9Q66wcSSibj1R1iTJTJw   The Trials and Jubilations of Translating Arabic Literature Speaker: Sawad Hussein Arabic-English Translator and winner of the 2019 Arablit Short Story Prize … Read More

One Thousand and One Nights is a work made of and by translation. The earliest Arabic fragments are already translations of an earlier Persian work, which borrowed in turn from … Read More

In Fantasmic Objects, Kirsten L. Scheid offers a striking study of both modern art in Lebanon and modern Lebanon through art. By focusing on the careers of Moustapha Farrouk and Omar … Read More

The Dawn is Too Far shares a multi-generational perspective of those who came as students, refugees, and exiles to the U.S., particularly in the context of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. … Read More