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Shawkat Toorawa, Blanshard Professor
September 12, 2024
Text by YaleNews Shawkat M. Toorawa, a world-renowned scholar and translator of extraordinary breadth — who explores classical, medieval, and modern Arabic literature, the literary dimensions of the Qur’an,...
Cuneiform tablet of food recipe. Courtesy of the Yale Babylonian Collection
August 18, 2024
During the week of August 12, 2024 the BBC released a story by Veronique Greenwood featuring the Cuneiform tablets of food recipes housed at the Yale Babylonian Collection. The story was published under the title “...
Eckart Frahm, John M. Musser Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
March 21, 2024
Text by YaleNews Eckart Frahm, one of the world’s foremost experts on the Assyrian Empire, was recently appointed the John M. Musser Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, effective immediately. He...
Four junior faculty members receive this year’s Poorvu Innovation Award
February 12, 2024
Text and photo by Yale News. Four Yale faculty members — Nana Osei Quarshie, Ian Turner, Erika Valdivieso, and Meryem Ezgi Yalçın — have been named recipients of the 2023–24 Poorvu Family Fund for Academic...
Library joins “For Humanity Illuminated” celebration of Yale’s cultural heritage collections
August 17, 2023
Text by Deborah Cannarella. Photo by Raccoon London. In June, more than 300 members of the Yale community—including alumni, friends, faculty, and staff—gathered at the Savoy Hotel in London for the “For Humanity...