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Congratulations to our 2025 MA graduates! We are incredibly proud of you and are excited to see what your futures hold. We hope you always think of the Kevorkian Center and its faculty and staff as a resource!
As the 2024–2025 academic year comes to a close, we want to take a moment to celebrate the incredible work of our graduate student workers. We are truly grateful for everything you’ve done. Your dedication & high-quality work have been central to our accomplishments this year.
Thank you Norma Claire Moruzzi, Ali Mirsepassi & @KeshavarzianA, as well as to everyone who joined us for "Tied Up in Tehran: Women, Social Change, & the Politics of Daily Life in Post-revolutionary Iran" last week on May 1, 2025. Future events: buff.ly/onbmGBV
Thanks to Iman Mersal, Khaled al-Hilli, Alex Tan, & all those in the audience, for contributing to the discussion about memory, motherhood, poetics, & translation that took place, April 29, 2025. Subscribe to our newsletter & never miss an event: buff.ly/YsHLe3p
We’re so proud to share that our second-year MA student, Sage Taber, has been named the 2025 @NYU_GSAS_MA Threesis Audience Choice Winner! Her presentation titled, “Framing Tehran: The rise of an Alternative Public Space” is part of Sage’s MA dissertation. Congrats, Sage!
Join us & the Iranian Studies Initiative TOMORROW for a book talk on women in post-revolutionary Iran! 📆 5.1.25 | 5PM 🎤 Norma Claire Moruzzi, @KeshavarzianA 📍 Kevorkian Center / Zoom 🎟️ Open to public w/ registration 🔗 buff.ly/onbmGBV
Congratulations to our faculty member, Tyson Patros, on his Teaching Innovation Award! Tyson received the award to design a series of assignments for topic-based graduate seminars that support student learning through hands-on empirical research. Congrats, Tyson!
Tomorrow!
Join us tomorrow for a conversation with award-winning Egyptian writer Iman Mersal, poet, & scholar. She’ll discuss memory, motherhood & translation w/ Khaled al-Hilli & Alex Tan. 📆 4/29/25 | 12:30PM 📍 Kevorkian Center 💡 Event will be in Arabic 🔗 buff.ly/XvlGESv
Join us & Iranian Studies Initiative for "Tied Up in Tehran: Women, Social Change, & the Politics of Daily Life in Post-revolutionary Iran"! 📆 5.1.25 | 5PM 🎤 Norma Claire Moruzzi, Marijeh Moradian, @KeshavarzianA 📍 Kevorkian Center / Zoom 🔗 buff.ly/onbmGBV
Join us tomorrow for a conversation with award-winning Egyptian writer Iman Mersal, poet, & scholar. She’ll discuss memory, motherhood & translation w/ Khaled al-Hilli & Alex Tan. 📆 4/29/25 | 12:30PM 📍 Kevorkian Center 💡 Event will be in Arabic 🔗 buff.ly/XvlGESv
A special thank you to @otsnyu & @IRNYU for organizing and co-sponsoring this event (respectively).
Thank you @aysenurdal, @LiselHintz, Bilge Yeşil, Aslı Iğsız, James Wahutu & all those in the audience, for contributing to the discussion about Turkey's media narratives & political legitimacy on April 24, 2025. For future events, check out our website: buff.ly/TchSLI1
Thank you @aysenurdal, @LiselHintz, Bilge Yeşil, Aslı Iğsız, James Wahutu & all those in the audience, for contributing to the discussion about Turkey's media narratives & political legitimacy on April 24, 2025. For future events, check out our website: buff.ly/TchSLI1
🚨TODAY!!
Join us today for a timely panel on Turkish media and state power. How does the Turkish government use media to frame its policies as empowering, competent, and legitimate—at home and abroad? Our panelists will unpack the narratives, the ideology, and what’s at stake.
Join us for "A conversation with the Egyptian writer and researcher Iman Mersal" حوار مع الأديبة والباحثة الأكاديمية إيمان مرسال 📆 April 29, '25 | 12:30PM 🎤 @Imanmersal, Khaled al-Hilli, Alex Tan 🎟️ Open to public w/ RSVP 💡 Event will be in Arabic 🔗 as.nyu.edu/research-cente…
