March 2025 News

Illuminated and ordinary: Exhibition explores the world of Islamic manuscripts
March 11, 2025
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 survived...
What do you know? Yale’s Dr. T aims to fill some gaps
March 4, 2025
Text by Lisa Prevost, YaleNews 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 all things...