Amitis Motevalli's work explores the cultural resistance and survival of people living in poverty, conflict and war.

At Brown, Babadi will be making connections between the transformations of intimacy in contemporary Iran and the recent feminist revolutionary movement (Woman Life Freedom) that is led by women demanding their rights to bodily autonomy and the freedom to choose their social and intimate lifestyles.

Graves's current book project, Invisible Hands, explores the craft skills of ceramics faking and forgery for the nineteenth- and twentieth-century antiquities market.

After 4 years of teaching as a Fellow and Lecturer at Columbia University, Meziane will join Brown University as an Assistant Professor during the fall of 2023.

Miled Faiza discusses the role poetry has played in his life, from journeys into translation and teaching, to inspiring students and changing perspectives of the Arab world

Michelle Quay traces her path from growing up as a non-native Persian speaker in the midst of "Tehrangeles" to translating Persian literature

Alex Winder furthers his research on indigenous forms of extralegal justice among Palestinian communities while teaching on the relationship between ancient and modern conceptions of the Middle East