Archive: Arabic and Islamic Studies
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Georgetown Opens First-of-Its-Kind Mosque on a U.S. College Campus
On March 18, Georgetown officially opened the Yarrow Mamout Masjid, the first mosque with ablution stations, a spirituality and formation hall and a halal kitchen on a U.S. college campus
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Faculty of Languages and Linguistics Celebrates End of Academic Year with Awards
Georgetown University’s College of Arts and Sciences gathered to celebrate the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics (FLL) in an annual awards ceremony.
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Georgetown Professor Wins Prestigious Prize for the Study of Classical Arabic Poetry
A Georgetown professor is making international waves for her dedicated study of Classical Arabic poetry. Suzanne Stetkevych, Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, is a 2022 King Faisal Prize laureate.
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New College Faculty for 2020-2021
Georgetown College is pleased to welcome 24 new full-time faculty members with primary appointments in 16 College departments and programs. This cohort will help enrich the student experience through their varied and nuanced areas of study.
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Book by Georgetown Professor Made into TV Mini Series
It’s not every day that your book is published, and it is an even more rare occurrence when it is adapted for the screen. For Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies professor Elliott Colla, this became reality with the announcement that the United Kingdom’s Channel 4 will release a mini-series based off of his 2014 thriller Baghdad Central in March of 2020.
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Esteemed Poet and Translator Gives Talk on New Book
Dick Davis, globally acknowledged leading translator of Persian poetry, gave a reading from his newly published book The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women at Georgetown on Thursday, October 24, 2019.
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