Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Many congratulations go to Dr Michelle Quay (who received her PhD in Persian Literature from Cambridge in 2017) who has won the Inaugural Mo Habib Translation Prize at the University of Washington. Her translation of Reza Ghassemi's novel "Woodwind Harmony in the Nighttime" will be published with the MELC and Deep Vellum Publishings. Dr Quay, who now teaches at Brown University, is also co-organiser with Dr Annabel Keeler of the Persian Literature Reading sessions at this Faculty.

On May 9th, Noga Ganany gave a lecture titled "Rethinking Religious Textuality in Ming Literature" for the Konfuzius Institut at Leipzig, Germany.