Together, the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations and UNC Global, with support from the Iranian Cultural Society of North Carolina, hosted a performance of folk music from Iran on Friday, September 21, 2018 in … Read more

Mina Vakil-Zadeh, who has now lived in Chapel Hill for 50 years, has recently assisted in the curation and organization of an exhibition at the FedEx Global Education Center, loaning many of her own cultural items to be displayed and shared with the Carolina community.

The notion of returning to a better Syria drives Hiba Alzouby ’21, a doctor of pharmacy candidate at UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Born in New Jersey and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina, Alzouby lived in Syria between the ages … Read more

For Carl Ernst, Islamic studies is about much more than studying the languages and cultures of the Middle East — it’s about fostering a much needed awareness of an area of the world with which many people in the United … Read more

Educators from around the U.S. tuned in on October 12, 2017 to learn about cultural geography and artistic expression in the midst of revolution. Organized by the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies in partnership with the National Humanities Center, … Read more

A team of specialists and students led by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor Jodi Magness has uncovered additional mosaic scenes in the Late Roman synagogue at Huqoq, an ancient Jewish village in Israel’s Lower Galilee. The new finds … Read more

For Claudia Yaghoobi, a passion for learning and education was instilled in her from a young age. Now an assistant professor of Persian studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Yaghoobi grew up in an Armenian family … Read more