Middle East and Islamic Studies Minor, Rutgers —Newark

01/19/2026

Send your papers by January 21, 2026! 🤩

📣 📣 📣 We are delighted to announce the 6th Mid-Atlantic Ottomanist Workshop, hosted by Rutgers University, Newark on April 10–11, 2026.

The workshop brings together scholars of Ottoman Studies at all career stages and from across disciplines. Interdisciplinary approaches are especially welcome.

Call for Papers
Please submit an abstract (max. 300 words) by January 21, 2026 to: [email protected]

Join us for two days of engaging discussion and collaboration in Newark, NJ!

01/07/2026

📣 📣 📣 We are delighted to announce the 6th Mid-Atlantic Ottomanist Workshop, hosted by Rutgers University, Newark on April 10–11, 2026.

The workshop brings together scholars of Ottoman Studies at all career stages and from across disciplines. Interdisciplinary approaches are especially welcome.

Call for Papers
Please submit an abstract (max. 300 words) by January 21, 2026 to: [email protected]

Join us for two days of engaging discussion and collaboration in Newark, NJ!

12/12/2025

Rutgers University-Newark Middle East Orchestra
Rutgers University—Newark

06/10/2025

MEIS Professor Amir Moosavi's book, Dust That Never Settles is out with Stanford University Press!
Dust That Never Settles considers how Iraqi and Iranian writers have wrestled with representing the Iran-Iraq War and its legacy, from wartime to the present. It demonstrates how writers from both countries have transformed once militarized, officially sanctioned war literatures into literatures of mourning, and eventually, into vehicles of protest that presented powerful counternarratives to the official state narratives. In writing the first comparative study of the literary output of this war, Amir Moosavi presents a new paradigm for the study of modern Middle Eastern literatures. He brings Persian and Arabic fiction into conversation with debates on the political importance of cultural production across the Middle East and North Africa, and he puts an important new canon of works in conversation with comparative literary and cultural studies within the Global South.
Rutgers University-Newark School of Arts and Sciences

10/31/2024

Join us on November 12 and 13 for the Sawyer Seminar Aftermaths of War. Memory and Histories for the Future. Register at go.rutgers.edu/aftermathsofwar

05/20/2024

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05/13/2024

'Rhythmic Grooves of Liberation: Jazz, Islam, & Black Power' is an immersive exhibit that explores the intersections of jazz, Islam, and Black liberation during the golden age of African American Islam and jazz (1940s-1970s) through Institute of Jazz Studies (IJS) collections and beyond. Complimentary earbuds will be provided to enjoy the audio portion of the exhibit.

Monday, May 20, 2024, 1:30-3:30pm in the Dana Library lobby on the Rutgers-Newark campus
John Cotton Dana Library at Rutgers-Newark at Rutgers University—Newark

Please RSVP: https://libcal.rutgers.edu/event/12428300

05/04/2024

Please share:

At Rutgers-Newark, we are looking for an adjunct instructor for one section of elementary Arabic starting fall 2024. Classes will be M/W at 4:00-5:20PM, MSA focused. This is a good opportunity for someone looking for a bit of extra work and/or to expand their teaching experience on their CV. Pay is approximately $11K per semester. You only have to be on campus twice a week.

From NYC, Rutgers-Newark is only 20-30 minutes from Penn Station using NJ Transit (two stops). Path also goes to Newark, and NJ Transit lines connect Newark to other parts of NJ.

We’re hoping to grow the Arabic program and it would be great for this person to grow with it. Arabic Classes at RU-N are not large. They contain a good number of heritage students and others who can read the alphabet. There is a chance that this position could expand to two courses in the spring and following semesters.

If you know someone who might be interested, please send them this message and the link to the job application below. I’m happy to answer any questions about the job.

The official job announcement and application can be found here.

https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/226290 #:~:text=Position%20Details&text=The%20Department%20of%20Spanish%20and,teach%20elementary%20and%20intermediate%20Arabic.

04/15/2024

Meet our speaker for Wednesday's lecture series, Dr. Mbaye Lo, Associate Professor of the practice of Asian and Middle Eastern studies and international comparative studies at
Duke University.

Please join us!
April 17, 2024
2:30 PM - 3:50 PM
Dana Library
185 University Avenue
Dana Room/4th Floor
Newark, NJ 07102

Register by going to: https://go.rutgers.edu/Mbaye-Lo

Mbaye Lo is associate professor of the practice of Asian and Middle Eastern studies and international comparative studies at Duke University.

Originally from Senegal, Professor Lo is the author and editor of nine books in both English and Arabic that examine the intersection of intellectual and social discourse of Arabic/Islamic and African cultures. He has written widely on political Islam, Arabic literary traditions in West Africa, and ideas of civil society and governance.

This event is cosponsored by the Department of Africana Studies at Rutgers-Newark and the Islam, the Humanities and the Human Working Group at Rutgers University—Newark.

Please join us on 4/17 at 2:30pm.

Register here: https://go.rutgers.edu/Mbaye-Lo

03/11/2024

Ramadan Mubarak to all who observe in the Rutgers community!