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We are pleased to announce that Rushain Abbasi will join the Religious Studies Department in the Fall of ’23 as an Assistant Professor of Early Islam. Dr. Abbasi comes to this position as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Stanford…

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The Stanford student group, the Turkish Students Association is raising funds for aid via to victims. Donate here. Bridge to Türkiye Fund is…

Stanford faculty, staff, and students mobilized to support those affected by the disaster that has killed tens of thousands and injured many more.

In the aftermath of a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria in the early…

As relief efforts are underway in Turkey and Syria to rescue thousands of people trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings, on behalf of the staff and affiliates of the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies and its sister program, the…

Hannah Yuh Watkins is an undergraduate Stanford student majoring in Mechanical Engineering. She spent two weeks in Jordan this past summer to continue working with Mawa Modular, a company that builds modular, sustainable housing for refugees in…