Archive: Arabic and Islamic Studies

• Faculty of Languages and Linguistics Celebrates End of Academic Year with Awards

  May 24, 2022

  Georgetown University’s College of Arts and Sciences gathered to celebrate the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics (FLL) in an annual awards ceremony.

  Category: News Story Tags: Arabic and Islamic Studies, Awards, Faculty, Linguistics, Persian

• Georgetown Professor Wins Prestigious Prize for the Study of Classical Arabic Poetry

  January 25, 2022

  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.

  Category: News Story Tags: Arabic and Islamic Studies, Awards, Faculty

• New College Faculty for 2020-2021

  September 2, 2020

  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.

  Category: News Story Tags: African American Studies, Arabic and Islamic Studies, Biology, Chemistry, Classics, Computer Science, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Economics, English, Faculty, Georgetown Humanities Initiative, Government, History, Humanities Initiative, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Physics, Research, Slavic, Theology

• Book by Georgetown Professor Made into TV Mini Series

  February 26, 2020

  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.

  Category: News Story Tags: Arabic and Islamic Studies, Book, Faculty

• Esteemed Poet and Translator Gives Talk on New Book

  October 31, 2019

  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.

  Category: News Story Tags: Arabic and Islamic Studies, Comparative Literature, English, Event, Georgetown Humanities Initiative, Medieval Studies, Persian