Text by Mike Cummings, YaleNews
In 1807, Omar ibn Said, an itinerant Islamic scholar in West Africa, was taken prisoner during a military conflict and enslaved. About 37 years old at the time of his enslavement, he...
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What do the American playwright Susan Glaspell, the renowned African blues guitarist Ali Farka Touré, and the Southeast Asian dyeing technique known as ikat have in common?
They are...
Professors Nadine Moeller and Eckart Frahm won two separate book awards at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Overseas Research(ASOR) last November.
For the five volumes of the ‘The Oxford History...
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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,...
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 “...
