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CAS Associate Student Rahil Asgari has published a new article ("The Notebook, the Closet, and the Film: Iranians Processing Trauma Through Public History, Case Study: The 1988 Executions") in International Public History with support from CAS's Writing Bootcamp. Link:

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CAS Director Dr. Hanan Hammad was featured on the podcast of Dr. Sari Hanafi, Professor of Sociology at the American University of Beirut, to discuss "Class, Gender, and the Archive: How Do We Write Egypt's History from the Bottom?" Listen here (in Arabic)! Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgObPMH86JY&list=PLPZFxeutK7wNZ7xGktzrNJ2nWdUUeQp0m&index=1&t=581s


حنان حمّاد أستاذة التاريخ العربي الحديث ومديرة مركز الدراسات العربية في جامعة هيوستن. وُلدت ونشأت في مصر، ودرست الإعلام والصحافة في جامعة القاهرة. وبعد عملها لعدة سنوات في مجال الصحافة، انتقلت إلى العمل الأكاديمي، وحصلت على درجة الماجستير في دراسات الشرق الأوسط، ثم على الدكتوراه في التاريخ والدراسات الفارسية من جامعة تكساس في أوستن عامي 2004 و2009 على التوالي. وهي مؤرخة اجتماعية وثقافية يركّز عملها على الطبقات العاملة، والنوع الاجتماعي والجنسانية، والطفولة، والثقافة الشعبية في العالم العربي الحديث، إضافة إلى التفاعل الاجتماعي والثقافي بين العرب والإيرانيين في القرن العشرين. من كتبها الجنسانية في العصر الصناعي: النوع الاجتماعي، والتحضّر، والتحولات الاجتماعية في مصر و ماضٍ مجهول: ليلى مراد، النجمة اليهودية-المسلمة في مصر. وقبل انضمامها إلى جامعة هيوستن، كانت حمّاد أستاذةً في جامعة تكساس كريستيان، حيث أسّست وأدارت برنامج دراسات الشرق الأوسط، كما ترأست قسم دراسات المرأة والنوع الاجتماعي

حنان حمّاد: الطبقة، الجندر، والأرشيف: كيف نكتب تاريخ مصر من أسفل؟ حنان حمّاد أستاذة التاريخ العربي الحديث ومديرة مركز الدراسات العربي...

Happy Birthday to one of the greatest living songwriters and composers, Marcel Khalife. To celebrate, we present our Director Dr. Hanan Hammad's exclusive interview with him, which just dropped today! Marking not only his birthday, but also the 50th anniversary of his first album Waʿūd min al-ʿĀṣifa (Promises of the Storm), Khalife tells Dr. Hammad all about life and art. https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/50/1205/570466/AlAhram-Weekly/Culture/I-Am-Marcel,-O-Nation.aspx?fbclid=IwY2xjawSWv1xleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEezrxXr1AT3N77flwC2X0DwEvEy6ZWgnoU9SrfKkhKymGZFDltBIeX1aD4iQ0_aem_M0PGFf655dWpKrYK90iUNg

INTERVIEW: I Am Marcel, O Nation - Culture - Al-Ahram Weekly Marking the 50th anniversary of his first album, Marcel Khalife tells Hanan Hammad all about life and art

Congratulations to CAS PhD Candidate in History, Rahil Asgari, for being awarded the John King Prize for Outstanding Graduate Student this year. Let’s go, Rahil!

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Congratulations to CAS Program Director and alumnus Dr. Patrick Higgins, who is now an Associate Editor at Middle East Critique, one of the top peer reviewed scholarly journals for the study of West Asia and North Africa.

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We congratulate our graduate student Zahra Tavana for receiving the English 1301 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award at the 2026 Honors Day in the Department of English. Zahra adds this honor to her university-wide Teaching Excellence Award, which she won last year!

CAS congratulates our Associate Student Dr. Priscilla JudsonWallace on her graduation after successfully defending her dissertation "Claudia Jones and the Black Radical Tradition: A Global Analysis." Her examiners were her advisor, Dr. David McNally, along with Drs. Tshepo Chery, Pratik Chakrabarti, and James Parisot.

Congratulations to our valued undergraduate students of the Arabic Language and Middle East Studies as they wrap up their semester today. A special shout out to those who stopped by the CAS office to be honored for their outstanding performances over the past academic year: Noor Karn, Cadence Babineaux, Noor El-Gendy, Amman Dhanani, Ibrahim Tayyan, Abeer Alqadi, Hanein Al-Maliki, and Hussain Rangwala. We're proud of you!