Barnard College News
This year, 11 alumnae were selected to serve as researchers, graduate students, or English teaching assistants in eight countries.
Prof. Lisel Hintz explains the challenges and inspiration behind researching Turkey's failed policies.
English professor reflects on persistent violence in Benghazi
In honor of International Women's Day 2014, a look back at recent conversations and events on international issues.
Religion professor provides commentary for Al Jazeera America
Political science professor's op-ed appears in The New York Times
Political science professor interviewed about her book, Warlords: Strong-arm Brokers in Weak States.
Prof. Matar, Libyan author and member of Barnard's English faculty, answers questions on Libya through The New Yorker's "Ask the Author" webpage.
Leader of Ras Al Khaimah, UAE, speaks with Barnard students about education and globalization.
In Newsweek, political science professor discusses “how Pentagon billions are flowing to the strongmen in the Middle East.”
On Monday, May 23, at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Barnard partnered with Bishvilaych, Israel’s premier women’s health clinic, to host a forum entitled “Perspectives on Gender Medicine and Women’s Health.”
Political Science Professor Mona El-Ghobashy considers the events leading to Hosni Mubarak's ouster.
The contrast could not have been starker. On one day in August two glossy magazines showed up in my mailbox. One, the Barnard Magazine, showed three beautiful young women, elegantly dressed and beaming, holding champagne glasses and enjoying the festivities around their fifth reunion. The other,
TIME, depicted a once equally beautiful woman, looking out from her head shawl and into the camera, revealing nothing. Her nose had been cut clean off—punishment by the Taliban, the article explained, for having fled her abusive in-laws. The woman, Aisha, was 18.
Everything in Dubai is tall, it seems, and everyone is from somewhere else. The man who greeted me at the airport was from Bosnia. The cabdriver was Sri Lankan; the hotel clerk, Nigerian. (Yes, I am one of those annoying travelers who ask a lot of questions.) Like the buildings that tower over what was recently desert, the people of Dubai appear almost to have dropped from the sky, hailing from across the planet and now mixed randomly, picturesquely, in this tiny crossroads by the sea.
The chair of the political science department draws on history to assess what's really needed in Afghanistan.
A revealing exchange of personal histories and ideas about the future.
