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USC Department of Middle East Studies The Department of Middle East Studies at the University of Southern California was launched in 2011

Thank you to all who attended the USC-Farhang Foundation Annual Lecture this week! We had an amazing turnout both in per...
10/16/2026

Thank you to all who attended the USC-Farhang Foundation Annual Lecture this week! We had an amazing turnout both in person and online for Dr. Kevin van Bladel’s talk, “Persian Empire and Persian Language,” and fantastic Q&A engagement. ✌️

MONDAY: the USC-Farhang Foundation Annual Lecture, “Persian Empire and Persian Language” with Dr. Kevin van Bladel (Yale...
10/09/2026

MONDAY: the USC-Farhang Foundation Annual Lecture, “Persian Empire and Persian Language” with Dr. Kevin van Bladel (Yale)!

OPEN NOW: The 2026 El Beih Paper Prize! Email submissions to mdes@usc.edu by 10/23! 🤓✌️
10/02/2026

OPEN NOW: The 2026 El Beih Paper Prize! Email submissions to [email protected] by 10/23! 🤓✌️

Screening next Tuesday: UNCOMMITTED, a documentary by Razi Jafri.
09/18/2026

Screening next Tuesday: UNCOMMITTED, a documentary by Razi Jafri.

It was so much fun to see everyone at yesterday’s Fall Welcome — thank you for joining us for a delicious lunch and grea...
09/11/2026

It was so much fun to see everyone at yesterday’s Fall Welcome — thank you for joining us for a delicious lunch and great conversations! Fight On! ✌️

Huge congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Middle East Studies Award and Language Awards in Arabic and Persian: Wen...
04/29/2026

Huge congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Middle East Studies Award and Language Awards in Arabic and Persian: Wendy Wang, Amitis Akbari, Laya Khan, Nikki Moktari, and Batul Saifee!!! 🏆🎉🎊

Iranian Studies minor Nikki Moktari at the Global Ecologies conference ✌️
04/24/2026

Iranian Studies minor Nikki Moktari at the Global Ecologies conference ✌️

An ENORMOUS thank you to everyone who attended “Globalized Ecologies: California and the Middle East,” and most of all t...
04/24/2026

An ENORMOUS thank you to everyone who attended “Globalized Ecologies: California and the Middle East,” and most of all to our speakers for making yesterday’s event such a huge success. Pictured here, from left to right: Dr. Ramzi Rouighi (USC), Dr. Ciruce Movahedi-Lankarani (USC), Dr. William Deverell (USC), Dr. Darren Dochuk (Notre Dame), Dr. James Tejani (CalPoly), Dr. Leila Harris (UBC), Dr. Mandana Limbert (CUNY), Dr. Kaveh Ehsani (DePaul), Dr. Natalie Koch (Syracuse), and Dr. Bandar Alsaeed (USC). Not pictured: Dr. Joanne Nucho (USC).

Thank you to everyone who joined us for yesterday’s Spotlight On: The US/Israel-Iran War— and thank you to our brilliant...
04/16/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us for yesterday’s Spotlight On: The US/Israel-Iran War— and thank you to our brilliant faculty panelists for their insights.

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Tuesday 8:30am - 5pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 5pm
Thursday 8:30am - 5pm
Friday 8:30am - 5pm

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