Center for Middle Eastern Studies

How 3,000-year-old poems landed in a top literary magazine

With new translations from the long-extinct Hittite language, UChicago Ph.D. student Naomi Harris brought verses from clay tablets to "The Paris Review"

Marvin Zonis, political economist and scholar of Middle East, 1936-2020

UChicago scholar remembered for interdisciplinary research, ‘lasting impact’ on students

Evolution of writing began with graffiti

Oriental Institute exhibition, running through March 6, explains origins of a seminal human invention.


William Harms