Professor Valerie Hoffman (U of I Dept. of Religion) writes that she is was in Ghardaia, the main town of the Wadi Mzab in Algeria. The Wadi Mzab, a desert valley 375 miles south of Algiers, is one of the few places in the world where most of the Muslims belong to the Ibadi sect. She arrived February 2 and stayed until February 16. Then She went to Tunisia, where the island of Djerba was also a...
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- Professor Matthew S. Winters (U of I Dept of Political Science) coedited a special issue of Studies in Comparative International Development with Rob Blair (Brown University). The issue was titled "Foreign Aid, Service Delivery, and State-Society Relations in the Developing World" (https://link....
- Professor Ken Cuno (U of I Dept. of History) published “Ismāʿīl Pasha,” in The Encyclopaedia of Islam Three. He was nominated for the Illinois Student Government Teaching Excellence Award. (The award ceremony is delayed indefinitely due to the pandemic.) During a spring sabbatical and over the summer, he finished an article and two more chapters of a short history of Egypt and...
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- “Congo to the Mississippi”: Recent Socially Conscious Music from Africa and the Americas http://publici.ucimc.org/2021/02/congo-to-the-mississippi-recent-socially-...
- Summer Arabic Study Application to Qatar Foundation International will receive funding for the amount of $32,535.00. The money will be used to support a Summer Intensive Arabic Course for High School Students here at UIUC. This is a two-week residential program which will happen...
- The city of Timbuktu in Mali epitomizes the intellectual vibrancy of African Muslim societies. These lectures explore past and contemporary aspects of Islamic Africa. The attached flyer can be found...
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GEOG 455Rather than the old adage: “To think of Africa is to think of poverty” (O’Connor 1991), in the year 2020, any geographer would agree that “To think of Africa is to think of many things”, like all places! To name a few: its 55 diverse countries; economic growth over the last two decades; new...
