Text by Mike Cummings, YaleNews
For several hours on a recent Friday morning, a Yale laboratory became a Bronze Age brewery.
Inside the lab, in the Yale Chemistry Research Building, a group of students attempted to recreate...
The Council on Middle East Studies (CMES) hosted a colloquium at the end of March to shed light on a proposed new tool for global peacebuilding: the “Human Needs Map,” developed and presented by Dr. Deborah Heifetz. A social...
On April 19th, 2025 Live Science released a story by Marilyn Perkins featuring the Cuneiform tablets of food recipes housed at the Yale Babylonian Collection. The story was published under the title “What’s the oldest known...
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...
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...
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 of the...
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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, medieval Baghdad...
