Skip to main content

News

2024

Visiting Calligrapher Instructs and Inspires
January 15, 2024

ISITA-CSMC Workshop Emphasizes Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Manuscript Studies 
January 5, 2024

2023

ISITA organizes symposiuim in honor of Lansine Kaba
October 2, 2023

Mauritanian calligrapher visits campus
October 2, 2023

ISITA resumes hybrid speaker series during spring quarter
March 27, 2023

ISITA co-sponsors translation symposium
February 1, 2023

2022

ISITA and University of Illinois awarded NEH planning grant
September 13, 2022

ISITA hosts hybrid speaker series during spring quarter
March 18, 2022

2021

Special issue of Religions: "Africa, Globalization and the Muslim Worlds"
October 25, 2021

Speaker series videos available
September 1, 2021

ISITA launches online speaker series
January 26, 2021

2020

Zachary Wright launches Tijani Literature Online project
September 30, 2020

Digital project widens impact of scholarly research at NU-Q
September 15, 2020 - from Northwestern Qatar News Stories

Book by NU-Q Professor focuses on Islam in Africa
August 5, 2020 - from Northwestern Qatar News Stories

NU-Q Professor Zachary Wright presents research on Islam in Africa
March 8, 2020 - from Northwestern Qatar News Stories

Hamza Yusuf speaks on the Mauritanian scholastic tradition
January 20, 2020

Muslim scholar Hamza Yusuf Hanson visits Northwestern, discusses scholarship in Mauritania
January 14, 2020 - from The Daily Northwestern

2019

ISITA-Harvard conference expands ideas on Islam in global Africa
October 30, 2019

Baraka Boys embody African Muslim identities in global contexts
October 30, 2019

Conference pluridisciplinaire "Africa, Globalization and the Muslim Worlds"
October 22, 2019 - from Xalimanews (Senegal)