Publishing Institution:
Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS)
The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies is the only academic center in the United States focusing exclusively on the Arab world. Since its founding in 1975, CCAS has prepared new generations of diplomats, scholars, teachers, policymakers, and leaders in the business and nonprofit sectors capable of critical thought, constructive dialogue, and creative engagement with the Arab world. CCAS advances research in the field of Arab Studies not only through its academic programs, public events, education outreach, and multimedia projects, but also by regularly hosting prominent scholars, visiting researchers, and post-doctoral fellows at the Center.Visit Site
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August 16, 2023
Dispatches: Life Beyond the Borders
By: Shano Mohammed -
August 15, 2023
Honoring the Memories of Iraqi Academics
By: Besan Jaber -
August 15, 2023
The American Invasion and Authoritarianism
By: Joseph Sassoon -
August 15, 2023
The Lessons We Choose to Draw
By: Paul J. McKinney -
August 15, 2023
No Good Way to Occupy a Country: Conceptions of Culture in the Iraq War
By: Rochelle Davis -
August 15, 2023
CCAS Conference on Iraq Twenty Years On: Prospects of Epistemic Reconstruction
By: Motasem Abuzaid -
August 15, 2023
Astute War
By: Shano Mohammed -
August 14, 2023
What Iraq Tells Us About Displacement
By: Salma Al-Shami -
January 26, 2023
A Giant in the Field of Middle East History
By: Zeinab Abul-Magd, Steve Tamari, Hoda Yousef, Sherene Seikaly, Nadya Sbaiti -
January 16, 2023
The Rise and Fall of a Global Empire
By: Joseph Sassoon -
January 16, 2023
Researching the History of a Family Dynasty
By: Joseph Sassoon, Vicki Valosik -
January 11, 2023
The Historical Significance of Epidemics in the Middle East
By: Benan Grams -
January 10, 2023
Our Living Archives, Our Elders
By: Samar Saeed, Laila Abdul-Hadi Jadallah -
January 05, 2023
New Approaches to Oral Histories in the Arab World
By: Joan Mandell -
January 03, 2023
Why We Teach History
By: Judith Tucker, Mustafa Aksakal -
August 30, 2022
Tabletop Debates: reflections on molokhia, identity, and forks vs spoons
By: Antonio Tahhan -
August 07, 2022
How MAAS alum and food historian Anny Gaul studies cookbooks
By: Vicki Valosik -
July 12, 2022
Maisa’s Kosher Kitchen
By: Lindsey Pullum -
July 06, 2022
Q&A with CCAS Assistant Professor Killian Clarke
By: Vicki Valosik, Killian Clarke -
June 08, 2021
Lebanon’s Pandemic in Context
By: Ziad Abu-Rish -
June 08, 2021
Teaching Science Fiction While Living It in Lebanon
By: Nadya Sbaiti -
June 08, 2021
Educating Refugees in Lebanon
By: Wissam Fakih -
June 08, 2021
Beiruti Artists Rebuild & Reimagine Their Communities
By: Laila Jadallah -
June 08, 2021
From Beirut to Brazil
By: Diogo Bercito -
May 06, 2021
The Foreign Relations of Islamist Movements
By: Abdullah Al-Arian -
February 05, 2021
Coronavirus in the Arab World
By: Haizam Amirah-Fernandez -
June 03, 2020
How to Study Gender in the Middle East
By: Maya Mikdashi -
November 18, 2019
Refugees and Water Security
By: Skylar Benedict -
November 18, 2019
Renewable Energy in the Gulf Arab States
By: Aisha Al-Sarihi -
November 18, 2019
A Unique Viewpoint on Diverse Landscapes
By: Uma Mencia -
November 18, 2019
Climate Change and the Syrian Conflict?
By: Marwa Daoudy -
November 18, 2019
Enhancing Development with New Teaching Approaches
By: Sima Aldardari -
November 13, 2019
MAAS Alum Builds Jordan’s First Windfarm
By: Diogo Bercito -
May 14, 2019
Serving Citizens Abroad in Times of War
By: Julie A. Eadeh -
May 10, 2019
Q&A with Her Excellency Hunaina Al Mughairy
By: Isabel Roemer -
May 09, 2019
Diplomacy and the Art of Storytelling
By: Isabel Roemer -
May 03, 2019
New Law Hinders Public Diplomacy and Penalizes Palestinian Students
By: Kaylee Steck, Mohammed Alhammami -
April 30, 2019
Mobilizing Memories
By: Carol Graham -
April 30, 2019
Training Georgetown’s Future Diplomats
By: Vicki Valosik -
April 28, 2019
Reflections from Singapore
By: ONG Keng Yong -
April 18, 2019
Grassroots Diplomacy Matters More Than Ever
By: Kala Carruthers Azar -
February 04, 2019
Q&A with Kristin Smith (MAAS ’14): A Day in the Life of Beirut’s Cultural Attaché
By: Vicki Valosik, Kristin Smith -
December 20, 2018
Quilting the Arabesque
By: Grayson Lee -
December 19, 2018
Reshaping Dominant Narratives through Film
By: Isabel Roemer -
December 19, 2018
Artist Q&A
By: Vicki Valosik, Helen Zughaib -
December 19, 2018
Reading the Arabesque with Kamal Boullata
By: Vicki Valosik, Kamal Boullata -
December 19, 2018
A Place to Gather
By: Vicki Valosik, Isabel Roemer, Nancy Howar -
December 19, 2018
Bridging Political Engagement and the Arts
By: Isabel Roemer -
December 19, 2018
For the Love of Music
By: Isabel Roemer -
December 19, 2018
Saudi Arabia’s Artists of Change
By: Sean Foley -
December 19, 2018
Preserving a Genre under Duress
By: Brittni Foster -
December 19, 2018
Literature Born of Captivity
By: Mohammad AlAhmad -
April 17, 2018
Engage Your Senses! Cultural Exchanges from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean
By: Susan Douglass -
April 17, 2018
Ancient Inspiration for a New Marketplace of Ideas
By: Azza Altiraifi -
April 17, 2018
Amplifying Voices, Responding to Crises: Media Technology and the Arab Spring
By: Jeffrey Ghannam -
April 17, 2018
The Big Takedown
By: Mary Margaret Ewens -
April 17, 2018
Speaking Truth to Power, Giving Voice to the Voiceless
By: Tithi Patel -
April 17, 2018
The Revolutionary Seeds of Mass Media
By: Sania El-Husseini -
April 17, 2018
MESA and the Muslim Ban
By: Beth Baron, Judith Tucker -
April 17, 2018
Q&A with Political Cartoonist Khalid Albaih
By: Vicki Valosik, Khalid Albaih -
April 17, 2018
MAAS in and on the Media
By: Nadine Cheaib, Timothy Kaldas, Bassam Haddad, Laila Shereen Sakr, Samia Errazzouki -
April 17, 2018
Love, Death, and a Day’s Work
By: Majd Al Wahaidi -
April 17, 2018
Q&A with Journalist Ada Mullol (MAAS ’18)
By: Ada Mullol, Vicki Valosik -
September 15, 2017
The Crisis of Higher Education for Syrian Refugees: Between Relief Work and Strategic Planning
By: Mohammad AlAhmad -
September 15, 2017
Education in the Arab World: Measuring Up Or “Upping” Our Measures?
By: Fida Adely -
September 15, 2017
Transforming Futures in Palestine
By: Steven Keller -
September 15, 2017
Celebrating the Cultures of the Excluded
By: Kristina Bogos -
September 15, 2017
Partnering for Solutions
By: Vicki Valosik -
September 15, 2017
What Post-WWII Schoolchildren Learned about the World
By: Susan Douglass -
September 15, 2017
Rapid Response
By: Azza Altiraifi -
October 01, 2016
The Extraordinary Story and Discovery of Yarrow Mamout: From African Slave to Georgetown Property Owner
By: Susan Douglass -
October 01, 2016
Forced Migration and Internal Displacement in the Arab World and Beyond
By: Rochelle A. Davis, Fowzia Abdullahi Abukar, Emma Murphy -
October 01, 2016
Syrian Scholar Finds Safe Haven at CCAS: A Conversation with Visiting Lecturer Mohammad AlAhmad
By: Will Todman, Mohammad AlAhmad, Dana Dairani -
October 01, 2016
Exiled in Babylon: Refugees and the Politics of Language
By: Noga Malkin -
October 01, 2016
Being Present in a World Stacked with War and Pain
By: Katherine Dunn -
October 01, 2016
Looking Back, Giving Forward
By: Vicki Valosik -
April 01, 2016
Digitizing Refugees: The Effect Of Technology On Forced Displacement By Timothy Loh
By: Timothy Loh -
April 01, 2016
The Revolution Turns Five: Faculty reflections on the fifth anniversary of the Arab uprisings
By: Fida Adely, Michael Hudson, Joseph Sassoon, Noureddine Jebnoun, Marwa Daoudy, Emad El-Din Shahin, Rochelle A. Davis -
April 01, 2016
The Politics of Reading: CCAS's Qatar Postdoctoral Fellow reflects on the uses of literature as a tool for cultural understanding
By: Elizabeth Kelley -
April 01, 2016
How Sectarian Conflicts Overtook the Arab Spring
By: Alexander Henley -
April 01, 2016
Five Years Of Conflict Brings New Normals In Damascus
By: Benan Grams -
April 01, 2015
2015 Symposium Sheds Light on Complexities of Shale Oil
By: Tareq Radi -
April 01, 2015
Examining the Future of Authoritarianism in the Arab World
By: Joseph Sassoon -
April 01, 2015
George Salem: A Mission of Love
By: Vicki Valosik -
April 01, 2015
Innovative Approaches to Teaching About the Middle East
By: Susan Douglass -
April 01, 2015
MAAS Students Bring Scholars and Activists to Campus
By: Vicki Valosik -
April 01, 2015
Remembering and Making History in Egypt
By: Vicki Valosik -
April 01, 2015
Sabbatical Secrets & Buying Books in Beirut
By: Daniel Neep -
October 05, 2011
Revolution in the Arab World: The Long View
By: William Zartman, Laleh Khalili, Jillian Schwedler, Gamal Eid -
April 05, 2011
"Time Sticks": How Islam and Other Cultures Have Measured Time
By: Barbara Freyer Stowasser -
December 05, 2010
Art and Ecstasy in Arab Music
By: A.J. Racy -
January 05, 2010
Amin Rihani, 1876-1940: The Apostle of the Arab-American Relationship
By: Irfan Shahid -
December 05, 2009
Contexts of Language in Mahmoud Darwish
By: Ibrahim Muhawi -
December 05, 2009
Obama's First 150 Days: Perspectives from an Arab American Writer
By: Gregory Orfalea -
February 05, 2009
Passing a Flaming Torch: The Middle Eastern Issues Confronting the Obama Administration
By: Rami G. Khouri -
February 05, 2008
Is the Maghreb the 'Next Afghanistan'?: Mapping the Radicalization of the Algerian Salafi Jihadist Movement
By: Noureddine Jebnoun -
December 05, 2006
A View from the Inside: Congressional Decisionmaking and Arab-Israeli Policy
By: David Dumke -
October 05, 2006
Theater and Radical Politics in Beirut, Cairo, and Alexandria: 1860-1914
By: Ilham Makdisi -
March 05, 2006
Research Cultures in Local and Global Contexts: The Case of Middle East Gender Studies
By: Zeinab Abul-Magd, Aurelie Evangeline Perrier -
September 05, 2005
Uncovered: Arab Journalists Scrutinize Their Profession
By: Hafez al-Mirazi, Thomas Gorguissian, Rami Khouri, Salameh Nematt -
January 05, 2005
The US And Yemen: A Half-Century of Engagement
By: Edward Prados