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Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies

Hagop Kevorkian Center Announcement (June 2021) 

 

Professor Mohamad Bazzi will become Director of the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies on September 1, 2021.

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Mohamad Bazzi is an associate professor of journalism at New York University, where he teaches international reporting. He is also the associate director of NYU’s Journalism Institute. From 2009 to 2013, he served as an adjunct senior fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He was also the 2008 Edward R. Murrow press fellow at CFR.

Before joining the NYU faculty, Bazzi was the Middle East bureau chief at Newsday from 2003 to 2008. He established Newsday bureaus in Baghdad and Beirut, and he was the lead writer on the Iraq war and its aftermath. He covered the 2000 Palestinian uprising, the war in Afghanistan, and the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel. He also served as Newsday’s United Nations bureau chief and as a metro reporter in New York City. His essays and commentaries on the Middle East have appeared in The New York Times, London Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Boston Review, Politico Magazine, Reuters, and other publications.

He has won numerous journalism awards, including the 2017 and 2016 National Headliner Award; the 2016 National Society of Newspaper Columnists Award; the 2008 Arthur Ross Award for distinguished reporting and analysis on foreign affairs, presented by the American Academy of Diplomacy; the 2008 American Academy of Religion Award for in-depth reporting on religion; the 2005 Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Prize from the United Nations Correspondents Association; and the 2004 James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism.

Please join us in welcoming Mohamad Bazzi to the Kevorkian Center! 

 

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Message from our Acting Director, Jared McCormick  (February  10, 2021)

 

To the larger Kevo Community, 

We are physically back at the Kevorkian Center in a hybrid model this Spring 2021 semester and I write to welcome everyone back! We are continuing with both the Digital Forays and the Global Uprising series and hope that you join us!

This semester our faculty fellow Nasser Abourahme is teaching a graduate workshop that will help our students write and finish their thesis, a core requirment of our program. I am teaching "Digital Metholodies of the Middle East" which is a broad survey of artistic, academic, and activist production of digital material over the last 15 year in the Middle East - as well as workshops that introduce and problematize certain “Digital Humanities” tools and methods to students.

We are working with 15 students that will graduate with an MA in Near Eastern Studies and a number with various concentrations such as Langauge, Museum and International Relations. 

Wishing you all the best starting the semester & hope to see you soon at some of our programing.
Please follow our Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn pages. 

Sincerely, 
Jared McCormick
Acting Director & Director of Graduate Studies & Faculty Fellow
Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies 

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Message from our Acting Director, Jared McCormick  (Sept 1, 2020)

To the larger Kevo Community:
We are physically back in the Kevorkian office - as of today - and I write to welcome everyone for the Fall 2020 semester.  In the last six months we have become accustomed to many phrases: unprecedented, uncertain, unforeseen … (etc). The un- prefix negates: highlighting what is “not.” I would like to start the semester with a different sentiment: one of opportunity.  

As we start Fall 2020 at the Kevorkian Center:
· We look forward to welcoming students in unprecedented ways - helping them develop their research and future goals.
· We embrace uncertain circumstances to develop new programing to reach our NYU/NYC community - and to widen the scope & mode of our events to those across the globe.
· We face unforeseen developments from COVID, unrest in the face of ongoing police killings across the country, and continuing dissent in the Middle East.
     Given all of this we continually reconsider how we serve our students, larger NYU community, and the broader public.  
  
Despite the difficulties we have faced over the last six months, and those which will emerge, the start of this semester forces us to be provisional, quick-footed, and reimagine many of the how’s and why’s which we have taken as assumed. It is in this spirit, that I enthusiastically welcome back our continuing students & our 20 incoming MA candidates! This was an admissions season unlike any other and it has been a pleasure to get to know the incoming class well in advance of the start of the semester. They hail from across the globe, and right in our backyard -- we look forward to seeing them in person as soon as it is safe.
This coming year we are holding two year-long series: 
· Digital Forays in Middle Eastern Studies will build conversations on how we do research in a quickly changing “digital age.” 
· Global Uprisings takes the 10th anniversary of the “Arab Spring” to explore ongoing waves of dissent and protest in the region - and connect it to our larger global present.  
Each series will present roughly 10 events across the year and they are designed specially for the context of zoom - creating conversation, engagement, and unique content between 3 presenters and 1 discussant. We are excited to integrate these events directly into some of our courses, as asynchronous content. In addition, we hope to develop two public facing interfaces that extend these individual events to explore knowledge production in/of the Middle East. 
Finally, during the summer we carried out our K-12 Summer Institute: TEACHING THE MIDDLE EAST & LATIN AMERICA IN THE TIME OF COVID-19. We had 40 teachers from across the country take part in a 5-week institute. This event was planned in collaboration with our National Resource Center partners, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Thanks to this virtual experience, we’ve learned a lot about running events on Zoom that we hope will translate into engaging programming that our whole community can enjoy and learn from. We also are looking forward to sharing with you the fruits of the institute in the form of new teacher resources and access to the lectures delivered by our guest speakers.

Wishing you all the best starting the semester & hope to see you soon at some of our programing.
Please follow our Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn pages. 

Sincerely, 
Jared McCormick
Acting Director & Director of Graduate Studies & Faculty Fellow
Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies 

 

 

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