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Arabic program talk spans historical calligraphy, speaker’s new style
October 3, 2025
Text by Lena Katir, Yale Daily News Yale’s Arabic program invited students and community members into the world of Arabic calligraphy through a Wednesday morning event with the award-winning Iraqi-born calligrapher...
Jon Beltz wins 2025 best article award
October 1, 2025
Jon Beltz, a graduate of Yale-NELC’s PhD program in Assyriology, has won the 2025 prize for the best Assyriological article written after the PhD from the International Association for Assyriology. Jon received the...
The students experimented with making ancient brews using replicas of ceramic vessels that scholars think might have been used to brew beer in Mesopotamia.
April 30, 2025
Text by Mike Cummings, YaleNews For several hours on a recent Friday morning, a Yale laboratory became a Bronze Age brewery. Inside the lab, in the Yale Chemistry Research Building, a group of students attempted to...
Addressing the Roots of Conflict through “The Human Needs Map: A Tool for Peacebuilding”
April 28, 2025
The Council on Middle East Studies (CMES) hosted a colloquium at the end of March to shed light on a proposed new tool for global peacebuilding: the “Human Needs Map,” developed and presented by Dr. Deborah Heifetz...
Cuneiform tablet of food recipe. Courtesy of the Yale Babylonian Collection
April 19, 2025
On April 19th, 2025 Live Science released a story by Marilyn Perkins featuring the Cuneiform tablets of food recipes housed at the Yale Babylonian Collection. The story was published under the title “What’s the...