Rachel Schine’s University of Chicago dissertation recently received honorable mention from Middle East Medievalists! She graduated from Williams in 2013. You can read more about their yearly prize here. The Dissertation Prize Honorable Mentions this year goes to @PaulaManstetten and… Continue reading »
Non Profit Organization I work at a national organization which advocates on behalf of academic innovation. The organization is currently cultivating partnerships with universities in the Middle East & North Africa, and my familiarity with the region has been helpful with research into new partnerships. My interest was piqued by the… Continue reading »
MBA Candidate, University of Washington Foster School of Management, Seattle, WA I am currently pursuing my MBA at University of Washington Foster School of Management in Seattle, WA. I served in the US Special Forces and used Arabic on a daily basis during a combat deployment in which we partnered… Continue reading »
Independent consultant, ConsenSys I am currently working at ConsenSys, a blockchain software technology startup in Dubai, but came here to work for Strategy& last year, a management consulting company. I think Arabic did help prepare me as I used to work with a lot of Middle Eastern clients, and Arabic… Continue reading »
PhD Candidate – Harvard Divinity School I am currently at Harvard Divinity School studying Islamic Studies. I have spent the last two years studying Classical Arabic texts, ranging from the 11th century to the 15th century, from texts on logic to theology to history. I am interested in continuing studying… Continue reading »
Masters’ Candidate at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich Germany I am currently studying for my Master’s at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, Germany. My program is entitled “American History, Culture, and Society” and focuses on a transnational and interdisciplinary examination of the Americas. I chose this program because it enables me to continue my interests… Continue reading »
PhD Student at the University of Chicago The Arabic studies major has basically set the stage for my entire life after Williams. I am currently a PhD student at the University of Chicago in the department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, focusing on medieval (re: Classical) Arabic literature, Judeo-Arabic,… Continue reading »
Graduate Law student and journalist I am currently a journalist and a graduate student in law and policy, based in New York. This summer, I am working in Turkey for an American law firm that works on the Syrian peace process. My studies focus on foreign policy, law, and technology, all of… Continue reading »
I am currently a first lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps, stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. I was deployed to Afghanistan from September 2015 to May 2016, and I am returning for another nine month deployment to Afghanistan in a few weeks. I initially majored in Arabic intending… Continue reading »
Like many people of my generation, my interest in the Middle East was piqued by 9/11 and the US decision to invade first Afghanistan and then Iraq. I found myself in disagreement with everyone I knew about these military interventions and was deeply uncomfortable with the intolerance I saw in… Continue reading »