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Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Studies
Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Studies is an interdisciplinary program whose purpose is to explore the historical experience, literary, religious and cultural expression, and political and material life of the Jewish, Islamic, and Near Eastern civilizations.
The program incorporates diverse disciplinary perspectives, including history, religious studies, literary criticism, anthropology, political science, and film studies.
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Musica Ebraica
Israeli musicologist and pianist Assaf Shelleg to lecture at Washington University, Sept. 2
Aug. 25,
2009 --  "Embattled Israeliness, Embedded Jewishness: Jewish Influences on Israeli Music" is the focus of a lecture by visiting Israeli scholar Assaf Shelleg at 8 p.m., Sept. 2, in the Whitaker Hall Auditorium at Washington University.
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Disputed election
Iranian administration losing legitimacy, says expert
June 23,
2009 --
As the Iranian government continues to crack down on citizens protesting against the recent disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, an expert on Iran at Washington University in St. Louis says the Iranian administration wants the legitimacy of having won an election without actually having allowed a true election to take place.
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Windows on Iran
Iranian-American scholar posts daily updates on election-related turmoil in Iran
June 22,
2009 --
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An Iranian-American scholar at Washington University in St. Louis has been posting daily updates on election-related turmoil in Iran as part of her long-running electronic newsletter on cultural, political and social issues in Iran. Fatemeh Keshavarz, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures in Arts & Sciences, posts news, filled with cell phone videos and firsthand anecdotes from friends and academic contacts within Iran, at Windows on Iran Web site. She is available for media interviews on the day-to-day news reports she's receiving from contacts within Iran and for broader discussions of the cultural context of these events, including the role of women and the unique ways that this protest is being shaped by the use of cell phones, instant messaging and other online social media.
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Hillel J. Kieval
Chair of history and the Gloria M. Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and Thought in Arts & Sciences
Professor Kieval's work focuses on transformations in Jewish culture and society in East Central Europe (Austria-Hungary, Germany and Poland) from the Enlightenment to the Second World War; more specifically, on the effects of modernization projects, ethnic and national struggles, social conflict, ...
Expertise: Jewish culture in East Central Europe, antisemitism on Jewish life, Jewish-Gentile relations, linguistic, cultural and communal affiliations among Jews, Jewish society in Bohemia, Jewish experience in Czech lands, …
Direct contact: 314-935-5426
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hkieval@wustl.edu
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Lois Beck
Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology in Arts and Sciences
Expertise: Qashqa'i nomadic pastoralists, Iran, Islam, political anthropology, history, tribe-state relations, gender, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-5290
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Ahmet Karamustafa
Associate Professor of Religious Studies Program
Karamustafa is a medievalist/premodernist and works on the intellectual and social history of Islamic societies from the 13th to the 16th centuries. He is an expert on Islam and the theory and methods of all religions. Karamustafa specializes in premodern Islamic thought. His most recent book, God's ...
Expertise: Understanding Islam, premodern Islamic thought, world religions, religious studies
Direct contact: (314) 935-4446
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akaramus@artsci.wustl.edu
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Robert L. Canfield
Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology in Arts & Sciences
Canfield, a sociocultural anthropologist, spent nine years in Afghanistan. His research focuses on Islamic movements in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and other Central Asian countries. He supports the U.S. war in Afghanistan, but was highly critical of the Bush administration regarding the war in Iraq. ...
Expertise: Islamic politics, U.S. anti-terrorism policy, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Central Asia, Eastern Islamic World, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-5282
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canfrobt@artsci.wustl.edu
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