CMES and the Arabic program at Harvard are delighted to congratulate three students of Arabic who recently took the entrance exam for the Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA), Egypt, and were awarded full-year and summer fellowships.
Dan Stolz will be a full-year fellow at CASA. Dan is a senior at Harvard College (Cabot House) concentrating in History and NELC. After CASA he hopes to enter a graduate program in modern Middle East history. His main interest is in intellectual history of the Arab world, particularly of modern Egypt. He spent the fall of '05 in Cairo and is very excited to be going back.
Luke Leafgren will be a summer fellow at CASA. After taking bachelor degrees in English Literature from Columbia University and Theology from the University of Oxford, Luke entered Harvard’s doctoral program in Comparative Literature in 2004 with a concentration on medieval Europe. Since then, the pleasure of learning Arabic has shifted the focus of his studies to the interactions between European and Arabic cultures during the Middle Ages. Though he has spent summers in Damascus, Syria, and Irbid, Jordan, he has never been to Egypt and is thrilled to have the chance to study in Cairo.
Hannah-Louise Clark will be a full-year fellow at CASA. Hannah holds a bachelor's degree in Modern History from Oxford, and an A.M. in Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard. In the fall of 2008 she will begin a doctoral program in History of Science, and will focus on the history of medicine in European colonial contexts in the Middle East and North Africa during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She has worked as Coordinator of Graduate Studies at CMES since August 2005, living vicariously through the academic and travel experiences of others; she can't wait to get back to work on her Arabic, and to live in Cairo.
CASA offers advanced level coursework in Arabic language and culture, at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. A second program will be offered in Damascus, Syria beginning June 2007. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents and should have at least 2 or 3 years prior formal instruction in Arabic. For detailed information regarding the various CASA programs visit the official website.