July 2026 News

Shawkat Toorawa. Photo by Dan Renzetti
July 31, 2026
Text by YaleNews staff 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 interests...
Fragment of a cuneiform tablet inscribed with a royal grant from 762 B.C.E., issued in the name of a newly discovered Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria. Rm 75, obverse. Image courtesy of The British Museum and the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative
July 9, 2026
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 Elizabeth who...