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A scholar and translator of classical and medieval Arabic literature, Yale’s Shawkat Toorawa’s area of inquiry also includes modern poetry and science fiction film and literature — a range of...
By Lisa Prevost, YaleNews
Imagine, if you will, that an industrious scholar has unearthed credible evidence of a missing monarch in the accepted historical line of succession of the British crown.
Another...
By Mike Cummings, YaleNews
Photograph by Allie Barton
About 4,300 years ago, in the island city of Elephantine on the Upper Nile, a son sent his father a letter. In it, he mentions local gods as well Ptah, a god of...
Evelyne Koubková, a former PhD student in the NELC Department now holding a position as Assistant Professor of Assyriology at the Research Center for West Asian Civilizations at the University of Tsukuba (Japan),...
On May 20th, 2026, Agnete W. Lassen, Associate Curator of the Yale Babylonian Collection, delivered the annual Roger Moorey Lecture at Oxford University. The lecture was entitled “Set in Stone? Object Biography and...
