Near and Middle Eastern Studies

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July 9, 2020

Tuna Basibek Awarded International Research Fellowship

Tuna Basibek

Ph.D. Candidate Tuna Basibek has been awarded an International Research Fellowship from the UW Graduate School for his dissertation project Empire, Mobility and Boundary-Making in Northeastern Anatolia: The Circassian Refugees in Russian-Ottoman Borderland, 1860-1890.  Mr. Basibek will use the 3-month fellowship to conduct research in Turkey in Spring 2021.


Solmaz Shakerifard Awarded International Research Fellowship

Solmaz Shakerifard

Solmaz Shakerifard has been awarded an International Research Fellowship from the UW Graduate School for her dissertation project Aural-Aesthetics of Modernity: Iranian Classical Music and its Relationship with the ‘West’.  Ms. Shakerifard will use the 3-month fellowship to conduct research in Iran in Spring 2021.


Roman Pomeshchikov Awarded International Research Fellowship

NME PhD Candidate Roman Pomeshchikov

Ph.D. Candidate Roman Pomeshchikov has been awarded an International Research Fellowship from the UW Graduate School for his dissertation project The politics of digital transformation and bureaucratic change in Turkey and Uzbekistan.  Mr. Pomeshchikov will use the 3-month fellowship to conduct research in Uzbekistan in Spring or Summer 2021.


July 8, 2020

Michael Sims Published in Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World

Ph.D. Candidate Michael Sims has published an article entitled Claiming the Ezidis (Yezidis): Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Assyrian, Kurdish and Arab sources on Ezidi religious and ethnic identity in the Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World. Focusing on the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this article explores the ways in which various religious and historical aspects…


June 17, 2020

Ph.D. Candidate Maral Sahebjame Publishes in Two Scholarly Journals

NMES PhD Candidate Maral Sahebjame

Maral Sahebjame has published two pieces in scholarly journals. The peer reviewed article “Rewriting Gender in Post-revolutionary Iran: How Cohabitation comes to Embody the Affair between Law and Society” appears in the journal Frontiers.  Ms. Sahebjame’s book review of Women & Equality in Iran: Law, Society and Activism (2019) appears in the journal Gender and…



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