Dr. Fadi Bardawil recently published an essay on the Metropolitan Left’s abandonment of the Syrian struggle for emancipation in the Syrian electronic magazine, aljumhuriyya. Read it here.
Arabic lecturer Khalid Shahu took students to Apex Mosque to learn about Muslim culture. Read about it in the Daily Tar Heel.
Sarah Muscutt ’15 is an Asian studies major, Carolina Covenant scholar, and first-generation college student who has pursued study and work opportunities in South Korea through a Critical Language Scholarship and Fulbright award. Read all about it here.
Arabic Lecturer Farida Badr developed the idea and organized this event held December 1st, 2016, to showcase Arabic students’ facility and artistry with the Arabic script. Around eleven current and former students in Asian Studies’ Arabic classes participated in this … Read more
Japanese Lecturer Katsu Sawamura organized an event to help UNC students find employment in Japan after graduation. About thirty current UNC students and two alumni participated in this event. Maura McCarthy (class of 2012) talked about her experiences working as … Read more
An esteemed trio from the state of Kerala in South India—artists Viswanath Kaladharan and Kalamandalam Manoj, and makeup artist Kalamandalam Sukumaran—came to Chapel Hill to present Kathakali, a revered form of devotional dance-drama, to the UNC community on September 23, … Read more
An alumna of the Department of Asian Studies, Ashley Rivenbark, who earned a B.A. with a concentration in Chinese, recently published an article, “Of Art and Cultural Revolution,” in China Hands Magazine. Her article explores the cultural politics of remembrance and forgetfulness … Read more
We, the undersigned faculty and staff in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, welcome Chancellor Folt’s recently published statements on inclusion and diversity. Likewise, we emphatically reaffirm University policy on discrimination, academic freedom, and … Read more
You may know Dr. Afroz Taj as a professor of South Asian Studies, but did you know that he’s also a poet, stage actor, and host of his own popular radio show? And he’s in the spotlight this week on … Read more
Congratulations to Arabic majors Peter Cooke and Summer Najjar and Chinese major Ezra Baeli-Wang!
