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Research Highlights

Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah, 2025

In his first new novel since winning the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, Abdulrazak Gurnah writes a story about young people in Tanzania in a time of dizzying global change in post-colonial Africa.

Nathalie Handal Recieves National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowshp 2025

Professor Nathalie Handal is one of 35 writers selected to receive the esteemed FY 2025 Creative Writing Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts. Many recipients of this very award have gone on to receive the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Pulitzer Prizes in Poetry and Fiction. 

Spectral Evidence, 2024

Finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Chautauqua Prize, named one of the Ten Best Poetry Books of 2024 by Poetry Mutual, longlisted for the National Book Award and winner of a Pushcart Prize. Gregory Pardlo’s exceptional third collection of poems, brilliantly explicates the way the mind is culturally programmed to deal with otherness by projecting racist and sexist fears onto that other. - Los Angeles Review of Books.

Geography of Loss by Nathalie Handal, translated into Bengali, 2025

This collection of Nathalie Handal's poems, rendered into Bengali by a constellation of gifted translators, resonates with the profound echoes of loss, separation, and the displacements wrought by war and conflict. Amid these shadows, her verses illuminate the enduring quest for borderless love, peace, and solidarity. In this anthology, esteemed poets and writers have woven their artistry to convey the intricate essence of Handal's work to our Bengali readers. Their translations, steeped in the vision of a connected world, celebrate the unifying threads of human closeness and shared experience.

Maya Kesrouany Awarded Crown Faculty Leave Fellow

Professor Maya Kesrouany will be a Crown Faculty Leave Fellow in the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University for the Academic Year 2025-2026. The Crown Center for Middle East Studies is committed to conducting balanced and dispassionate research of the modern Middle East that meets the highest academic standards. The Center seeks to help make decision- and opinion-makers better informed about the region.