Category: Faculty

The Community-Engaged Alliance has awarded the IU Indy Arabic Studies Program a $4,000 grant to support the work of IU Indianapolis students and members of ADC Indiana, the Indiana chapter of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), during the spring, 2025, semester. Their goal is to use art, legal advocacy, and community-building to prevent or mitigate the harm caused by the …

“I wish my Arab granny were here to see this,” said Dr. Edward Curtis, the new director of the Arabic Studies program at the IU Indianapolis School of Liberal Arts. It’s been a long journey from his rural Southern Illinois hometown. Curtis, the William M. and Gail M. Plater Chair of the Liberal Arts and …

After more than twenty years at the helm of IUPUI’s Arabic Studies Program, Senior Lecturer Amira Mashhour (Ph.D., Cairo University) has retired from the faculty of the World Languages and Cultures Department. For decades, students consistently testified to her gentle, encouraging, and supportive approach to studying what is, for many Americans, an exceedingly difficult language. …