Middle East Studies

Professor Elias Muhanna writes for the New Yorker on paradigm shifting linguistic discoveries in early Arabic

May 24, 2018

Olivier-Kugler

Illustration by Olivier Kugler

Manning Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Middle East Studies Faculty Fellow Elias Muhanna, writes about the groundbreaking linguistic discoveries of Ahmad Al-Jallad in early Arabic in the New Yorker’s “A New History of Arabia, Written in Stone.”