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Congratulations to our first-year Global & Joint Program Studies - NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute & Near East...
10/02/2026

Congratulations to our first-year Global & Joint Program Studies - NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute & Near East student, Yezen Saadah, for starting an internship with Zeteo for Fall 2026.

Over the last few weeks, he's been fact-checking essays written by Zeteo's regular contributors, helping produce and providing background research for long-form interviews and podcast sessions, and working on the publication's weekly column, "This Week in Palestine."

Well done, Yezen!

Applications for our MA in Near Eastern Studies are now open!Interested in exploring the rich histories, cultures, and p...
10/01/2026

Applications for our MA in Near Eastern Studies are now open!

Interested in exploring the rich histories, cultures, and politics of the Near East? Apply to NYU's Hagop Kevorkian Center for an MA in Near Eastern Studies! With a diverse, interdisciplinary curriculum and multiple tracks to tailor your degree, our program offers something for everyone, from history and politics to culture and language.

We have faculty and staff guiding you every step of the way, and funding opportunities ranging from the Tuition Incentive Program to the prestigious Falak Sufi Scholarship.

📅 We're hosting virtual open houses on Oct. 29 and Dec. 3, led by Assistant Director Fidele Harfouche, Communications and Program Administrator Dounya Alami-Nassif, and Director of Graduate Studies & Clinical Associate Professor Jared McCormick.

🚨 Deadline for all applications: Jan. 15, 2027
🖇️ Registration links: linktr.ee/NYUKevo

Don't miss your chance to learn more and ask all your questions!

Meet Abbie Bowden, our student spotlight from the class of 2028! Abbie graduated this year from the University of Cambri...
09/29/2026

Meet Abbie Bowden, our student spotlight from the class of 2028!

Abbie graduated this year from the University of Cambridge with a BA with Honors in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, specializing in Arabic and French. As an undergraduate, she developed an interest in Classical Arabic and Medieval Studies, completing her final-year dissertation on 11th-century Syrian poet Al-Ma'arri. During her year abroad in Cairo, she developed her interest in writing as a journalist for the media company, the MO4 Network, where she specialized in Fashion editorials.

She also hopes to use her time at the Kevorkian Center to deepen her proficiency in Classical Arabic literature, particularly medieval eschatological texts, and to research the flow of knowledge across the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages, hoping to bridge her knowledge of Medieval French with Classical Arabic.

Welcome, Abbie!

Thank you to all who participated in and attended this engaging book talk, “Cultural Co-Resistance in Palestine/Israel: ...
09/25/2026

Thank you to all who participated in and attended this engaging book talk, “Cultural Co-Resistance in Palestine/Israel: Presented by Hana Morgenstern in Conversation with Ammiel Alcalay” on September 24, 2026.

A special thank you to our CUNY co-sponsors, the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center, the Center for the Humanities Lost and Found Initiative, and the Hunter College Arabic Program.

Check out Combat Breathing, curated by KJ Abudu and Adam HajYahia, starting October 1st!Combat Breathing Vol. II: A Symp...
09/24/2026

Check out Combat Breathing, curated by KJ Abudu and Adam HajYahia, starting October 1st!

Combat Breathing Vol. II: A Symposium on Aesthetics and Politics is a multi-site platform, spanning film and video screenings, critical discussions, and focused study sessions that will take place throughout October 2026. Responding to the current geopolitical conjuncture, it asks what roles artistic and intellectual production, circulation, and collective study might assume amid intensifying imperial violence and renewed global counter-mobilizations. In an era when imaging and communications technologies are increasingly deployed to discipline and cultivate collective imagination and stabilize statist and capitalist power, the symposium responds by foregrounding insurgent poetics, militant pedagogy, and autonomous or repurposed infrastructures of media production, distribution, and reception.

📆 Oct 1-31 | 6:30 PM - 8:15 PM
🎟️ Tickets through Anthology Film Archives: https://buff.ly/31TC2iY
🖇️ To learn more https://buff.ly/1475Y4Q

Did you know the New York Kurdish Festival (Kurdish Cultural Center New York) will celebrate its landmark 10th edition f...
09/23/2026

Did you know the New York Kurdish Festival (Kurdish Cultural Center New York) will celebrate its landmark 10th edition from Sept. 29 through Oct. 4, 2026? And we're a proud co-sponsor this year!

For a decade, NYKFF has brought Kurdish films, filmmakers, stories, and culture to audiences across New York City. This milestone edition will bring together filmmakers, artists, writers, members of the Kurdish diaspora, New York audiences, and international guests for film screenings, filmmaker conversations, panel discussions, and cultural events. The festival will feature works representing the diversity of Kurdish experiences and voices from across Kurdistan and the global diaspora.

📆 September 29 - October 4, 2026
🎤 See the schedule on the NYKFF website
📍 Village East by Angelika | 181-189 2nd Avenue
🎟️ Open to the public
🖇️ https://buff.ly/VRywvdZ

Meet Sobh Saeed Rid, our student spotlight from the class of 2028 💫 Sobh is enrolled in the joint Global Journalism and ...
09/22/2026

Meet Sobh Saeed Rid, our student spotlight from the class of 2028 💫

Sobh is enrolled in the joint Global Journalism and Near Eastern Studies program as a Falak Sufi fellow. Hailing from Pakistan, she graduated with a B.A. in Communication and Design from Habib University in June 2026, where she served as the editor-in-chief of Arzu Anthology. Her research and journalistic interests are rooted in her hometown in Sindh, with a particular focus on gender and marginalized communities. At the Kevorkian Center, she is interested in exploring questions of gender, language politics and cultural identity across the Near East and South Asia through both scholarly research and narrative journalism.

Welcome to our community, Sobh!

Don't miss out on NYU's CRACS Co-Lab Speakers Series event, "The Dialectics of Infrastructural Power" with Burçe Çelik.W...
09/18/2026

Don't miss out on NYU's CRACS Co-Lab Speakers Series event, "The Dialectics of Infrastructural Power" with Burçe Çelik.

What happens to our theories of infrastructural power when its history is written from imperial peripheries? Critical scholarship has powerfully demonstrated how infrastructures were integral to the violence of liberal imperialism and capitalism. This talk contributes to these debates by asking what is specific about communications infrastructures and the forms of power they materialise.

📆 Sept. 25 | 12:30 PM - 2 PM
🎤 Burçe Çelik (Loughborough University London)
📍 NYU Steinhardt | 196 Mercer St, 8 floor, Conference Room
🎟️ Open to public with registration
🖇️ https://buff.ly/IL7FQXy

***POSTPONED***Stay tuned for updates.Join us for “What is Recorded and What is Erased,” a film program by Maryam Tafako...
09/17/2026

***POSTPONED***
Stay tuned for updates.

Join us for “What is Recorded and What is Erased,” a film program by Maryam Tafakory.

This program of short films will share Tafakory's practice working across moving image, text, and performance. Her process unfolds through long, unfinished research and gathers into constellations of speculative nonfiction pieces. She layers archival fragments, poems, newspaper clippings, audio recordings, declassified documents, and state-produced images to trace the space between what is recorded and what is erased.

📆 Oct. 14 | 7 PM
🎤 Maryam Tafakory (Ruskin School, University of Oxford)
📍 Cantor Film Center Room 101 | 36 E 8th St
🎟️ Open to the public
🖇️ https://buff.ly/KbnMacq

This event is co-sponsored by: The Flaherty Film Seminar, The Liberal Studies Global Media Lab, The Iranian Studies Initiative, The Center for Media, Culture and History, and The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality

09/16/2026

Back to school, back to community!

On September 15, 2026, we kicked off the year with our Back to School Gathering, bringing together students, faculty, and staff from the Kevorkian Center & the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Department.

From new connections to deepening bonds, the evening was full of energy, conversation, and collective vision. We’re grateful to stand together as a community ready to support, learn, and grow.

Huge thanks to everyone who showed up and made this gathering memorable. Here’s to building and thriving together this year.

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