PATH+

Active Focal Group

PATH+ is a DLCL focal group that is considering new directions for Persian, Arabic, Turkish, and Hebrew languages, literatures, and cultures.

In 2025-2026, this group is run by Professor Alexander Key and Hevin Karakurt.

See our Colloquy in Arcade: Comparing Literatures: Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish, Urdu

 

 

Faculty Chairs

Graduate Chairs

Upcoming Events

Past Events

November
18

PATH+: Suleiman Hodali: Crusading, Orientalism, and the Geographies of Modern Arabic Philology

Date
Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
November
4

PATH+: Jad Kiadan: Decolonization without Desoulment: Reconsidering Iḥsān within the Palestinian Condition

Date
Tuesday, November 4, 2025, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
April
29

Migration and the Transnational Development of Palestinian Political Consciousness in the Early 20th Century | Nadim Bawalsa

Date
Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
April
26

Kî ne em? Kurdish Literature and Its Studies: An Interdisciplinary Conference

Date
Saturday, April 26, 2025, 9:30am - 6:00pm
April
22

Symposium on The Islamic Secular with Sherman Jackson

Date
Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 4:00pm
April
17

The Endurance of Palestinian Political Factions | Book Talk with Perla Issa

Date
Thursday, April 17, 2025, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
April
11

Comparative Methodologies: Ayoush Lazikani (English Language and Literature, University of Oxford)

Date
Friday, April 11, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
April
3

An Evening with Mosab Abu Toha

Date
Thursday, April 3, 2025, 5:30pm
March
17

​​​​​​​Alissa Walter | Contested City: Citizen Advocacy and Survival in Modern Baghdad 

Date
Monday, March 17, 2025, 5:00pm
February
5

PATH+ with Huda Fakhreddine (Arabic Literature, University of Pennsylvania)

Date
Wednesday, February 5, 2025, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
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