The Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University in Durham, NC invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in South Asian cultural … Continue reading Position opening: Assistant Professor in South Asian Cultural Studies, The Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University, November 15, 2023
Islam and Data Science Roundup
The Middle East Studies Center at Duke University is convening an online summer workshop entitled "Islamicate Digital Humanities: TEI XML for Arabic-Script Texts." A recent report released by the Council … Continue reading Islam and Data Science Roundup
Lecture: A North African Slave Advocating for Abolition in the US: Debating Slavery in Ottoman Tunis 1864, Middle East Studies Center (Duke University), November 9, 2020 @1:00 pm – 2:45 pm
In 1864 as the Civil War raged in the United States, a Circassian manumitted slave and Tunisian official named Husayn advocated for the abolition of slavery in the US. In … Continue reading Lecture: A North African Slave Advocating for Abolition in the US: Debating Slavery in Ottoman Tunis 1864, Middle East Studies Center (Duke University), November 9, 2020 @1:00 pm – 2:45 pm