"Language education in Morocco reflects a complex interplay between ethnic diversity/identities, political interests, and language ideologies and attitudes," writes Said Hannouchi, Preceptor in Arabic in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. "Economic realities and development in Morocco’s particular context also play a significant role in shaping education policy broadly, and language policy specifically. Above all, any discussion of the status of language education policy in Morocco must be conducted against the backdrop of the country’s historical experience...

Chloe Bordewich is a PhD candidate in History and Middle Eastern Studies.... Read more about Profile: Chloe Bordewich

Anna Boots is a second-year student in the AM in Middle Eastern Studies program.... Read more about Profile: Anna Boots

Eugene Rogan is Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History and Director of St. Antony’s Middle East Centre at the University of Oxford. He is the author of The Arabs: A History, which has been translated into ten languages and was named one of the best books of 2009 by the Economist, the Financial Times, and the Atlantic Monthly. He completed his AM in Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard in 1984 and his PhD in History and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard in 1991. Rogan returned to the Center for Middle Eastern Studies on September 21, 2017, to talk...

A talk by Alex Metcalfe, Senior Lecturer, Department of History, Lancaster University, UK.... Read more about Video: Conquest and Conversion in Medieval Muslim Sicily