News
2025
Zachary Wright named incoming director of ISITA
June 26, 2025
Maktaba project introduced at ASA roundtable
January 10, 2025
2024
Visiting calligrapher instructs and inspires
January 15, 2024
ISITA-CSMC workshop emphasizes multi-ddisciplinary approaches to manuscript studies
January 5, 2024
2023
ISITA organizes symposium 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)