Text by Lena Katir, Yale Daily News
Yale’s Arabic program invited students and community members into the world of Arabic calligraphy through a Wednesday morning event with the award-winning Iraqi-born calligrapher and...
Jon Beltz, a graduate of Yale-NELC’s PhD program in Assyriology, has won the 2025 prize for the best Assyriological article written after the PhD from the International Association for Assyriology. Jon received the award,...
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...
