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10/28/2026

Last Saturday's (October 24, 2026) bookstore walk brought together faculty, students, and staff for a stroll from the Lower East Side to the Village, led by Departmental Administrator of NYU's MEIS department, Kieran Lettrich, in partnership with the Kevorkian Center. We started at Yu & Me Books, stopped for a bite at Vanessa’s Dumplings, and passed by the former home of Bluestockings and the Lenin statue, making our way through NYC’s independent bookstores with a couple coffee stops, of course.

A great day for books, good conversation, and exploring the city together. Thanks to everyone who joined!

10/27/2026

On October 23, 2026, Roxana-Maria Arǎş (NYU's Kevorkian Center's Faculty Fellow) presented at NYU's Ethnography Workshop, "In Search Of Futures Lost: Waqf, Parish, and Locality," a chapter from her PhD dissertation titled "Orthodoxy as a Way of Life: Crisis, Sect, and Precarity in Lebanon."

Dr. Arǎş describes it as part of a book that "investigates the entanglements of Rum (Antiochian) Orthodoxy as sect, church, and community of practice in postwar Lebanon’s socio-political realities, marked by multidimensional challenges: bio-viral disaster, financial downturns, sectarian violence, and political unrest. Challenging dichotomies like sacred-profane or national-sectarian, I work in and through these events to consider Orthodox theology and practice in relation to the social reality of sectarianism and crisis as an everyday predicament."

If interested in working with Dr. Arǎş, consider taking her class next semester (Spring 2027). She is co-teaching a course with our Director of Graduate Studies titled NEST 3002-001: Topics in Anthropology: Archiving the Middle East: Histories, Technologies, Methods.

10/27/2026

Meet Evin Jiyan Kisanak, our student spotlight from the class of 2028!

Evin is a journalist and researcher with a background in international relations, human rights, peace-building, and conflict resolution. After completing a B.A. in International Relations and an M.A. in Human Rights Law at Bilgi University, she worked with NGOs focusing on human rights, transitional justice, and peace. Following her training at the Monte Sole Peace School, Evin facilitated peace workshops across Turkey.

Evin also worked as a foreign news editor and news anchor at TV, where she produced and hosted a weekly program, "Dunya Hali," on global affairs for nearly two years.

At the Kevorkian Center, Evin plans to focus her research on the Middle East, the Kurdish question, conflict resolution, and peace-building.

Welcome, Evin!

10/26/2026

Join the Iranian Studies Initiative (ISI) for a lecture on "Iran Amplified: One Hundred Years of Music and Society."

Iran Amplified: One Hundred Years of Music and Society, the first edited volume dedicated to music in modern Iran, brings together a cross-genre collection of compelling scholarship, musician narratives, and primary sources. The groundbreaking volume offers historical and critical examinations of music’s significant role in social and political mediation in Iran throughout the twentieth century, while exploring key analytical themes including Islam, gender, media technology, alterity, transnational flows, and diasporic communities. Compiled by two leading scholars of Iranian culture, this timely volume affords music an important place in the scholarship of modern Iran.

📆 Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026 | 5 PM - 7 PM
🎤 Firoozeh Kashani (University of Pennsylvania), Armaghan Fakhraierad (University of Pennsylvania) & moderator Nahid Siamdoust (The University of Texas at Austin)
📍 Kevorkian Center, Ettinghausen Library | 255 Sullivan Street
🎟️ This in-person event is open to the public with registration
🖇️ https://buff.ly/Qn2DyGN

10/26/2026

Ever wondered what it’s like to study at NYU’s Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies?

From engaging with the histories, politics, cultures, languages, and societies of the Middle East in the classroom to attending lectures, panels, and workshops with scholars, artists, and journalists from around the world, there’s always something happening at the Kevorkian Center and across NYU’s campus.

Interested in making NYU your next academic home? Applications for our MA in Near Eastern Studies are now open!

📅 Virtual Open Houses: October 29 & December 3
🚨 Fall 2027 application deadline: January 15, 2027
🖇️ Learn more and apply: https://buff.ly/ieWWHcP

10/23/2026

Don't miss the NYU Migration Network's AI & Immigration Policy Global Comparisons virtual panel!

This virtual panel brings together an international group of scholars and writers who work on questions of migration to discuss the ways in which Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the politics of global migration, putting the U.S. focus of our series into dialogue with current practices in Europe, Australia, Canada, and the Middle East, as well as international humanitarian organizations.

📆 Wednesday, November 4, 2026 | 12-1:30 PM
🎤 Caitlin Chandler (Journalist), Marie McAuliffe (), Lex Gill (Citizen Lab), Emre Eren Korkmaz (.university.of.oxford), and moderator Jared McCormick ()
📍 Online
🎟️ Open to public
🖇️ https://buff.ly/d61zYqr

10/21/2026

Join us for an AI & Immigration Policy Virtual Explainer on regulating AI next Wednesday, October 28, 2026. This 12–15-minute explainer series brings scholars into conversation with NYU professors to break down major concepts in accessible, digestible discussions.

📆 Wednesday, October 28, 2026 | 12 PM – 12:15 PM
🎤 Julia Lane (NYU) and Thom Blaylock (NYU)
📍 Online
🎟️ Open to the public
🖇️ https://buff.ly/1AJmKdy

10/21/2026

We love hearing from our wonderful alumni! Here’s feedback from Kevorkian Center alumni about our MA program.

Applications for our MA in Near Eastern Studies are now open until January 15, 2027! If you are thinking about applying or want to hear more about the program, join us for virtual open houses on October 29 and December 3, led by Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Clinical Professor Jared McCormick, Assistant Director Fidele Harfouche, and Communications and Program Administrator Dounya Alami-Nassif

Check out the links at the bottom of our Admissions page to register and learn more! https://buff.ly/l0yvsOA

10/20/2026

Meet Zein AlMasri, our student spotlight from the class of 2028!

Zein graduated from Tufts University in 2026 with a B.A. in Political Science and minors in Cultural Anthropology and Film & Media Studies. Her academic interests lie at the intersection of politics, anthropology, and cultural production in the Arab world. She is particularly interested in borders and displacement, colonial and postcolonial legacies, identity formation, and the ways political power is experienced and negotiated in everyday life. At Tufts, she served on the board of the Middle East Research Group (MERG), where she engaged with contemporary political and cultural questions across the region. Her undergraduate research explored representation, U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East, political identity, and revolutionary art and visual culture in Egypt.

At the Kevorkian Center, she hopes to examine further how borders, histories of colonialism, and migration shape everyday life, with particular attention to how these experiences are represented and negotiated through visual culture and media.

Welcome, Zein!

10/20/2026

Did you miss our webinar, "Archives in Dialogue: Boxes, Bunkers, and Preservation in Times of Precarity" curated by our faculty fellow, Roxana-Maria Aras? Watch the event recording on our YouTube channel here: https://buff.ly/erDvrlC

On October 14, 2026, NYU's Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies held an event partnered by American University of Beirut (AUB)'s Global Engagement Initiative with speakers Nadine Panayot, Rachelle Tabet, Nadi Abusaada, and discussant Nora Kennedy to explore how preservation takes shape in times of precarity, war, and genocide. Drawing on their work archiving and curating amid conflict, the guests reflected on the negotiations between institutions and communities, Western preservation standards and regional realities, and what can still be saved in contexts where memory itself is actively denied.

The webinar also featured “Thinking Outside the Box,” an archival activation by Rachelle Tabet exploring creative approaches to preserving photographic collections in Lebanon using locally sourced materials.

Watch this and other recordings on our YouTube channel!

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