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New Book: "My Heart Became a Bomb" a book of al-Asheq’s poetry translated into English by Levi Thompson

Nov. 30, 2020

Levi Thompson , Assistant Professor of Arabic, was recently interviewed by the popular literary website ArabLit about his work translating the Syro-Palestinian poet Ramy al-Asheq, who now lives in Germany. You can read the interview by Tugrul Mende . Ever Since I Did Not Die , a book of essays...

Norlin Library

Levi Thompson Encouraging Students to Go to the Library

Dec. 18, 2019

“The students who took advantage of this opportunity had a good experience. Some of the freshmen told me that they had no idea about the amount and variety of resources available to them at the library. The upperclassmen in the other course reported that the experience helped them figure out...

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Mona Attwa Received Best Should Teach Gold Award for 2019

Sept. 23, 2019

Congratulations to Mona Attwa for being selected as one of this year's winners of the Best Should Teach Gold Award for for excellence in teaching and for outstanding contributions to improving higher education at the University of Colorado Boulder. The Best Should Teach initiative was established in 1996 and is...

East Podcast

Students in ARAB 3340 Representing Islam Worked on Podcast Episode for The East Is A Podcast

May 6, 2019

In the spring 2019 semester, students in Levi Thompson’s course “Representing Islam” created a podcast episode for the program The East Is A Podcast , produced by Sina Rahmani. During the course, students considered how Islam has been represented, by Muslims and non-Muslims alike, over the centuries. This project is...