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September 2011

September 29^th 2011: The Initiative on Academia & the Public Sphere recently hosted a conference in Berlin, titled The Public Mission of the Social Sciences and Humanities: Transformation and Renewal
September 20^th 2011: SSRC launches major new grants program on “New Directions in the Study of Prayer”
September 16^th 2011: Duke Islamic Studies Center (SSRC grantee) recently hosted a program for news reporters on "Muslims in America: The Next Ten Years"
September 14^th 2011: Ahlul Bayt, Iranian news agency, spotlights online course by SSRC grantee on "Covering Islam in America"

August 2011

August 31^st 2011: Listen to Lawrence Pintak, dean of SSRC grantee Washington State U. College of Communication, discuss the role of Qatar in Libya and the Arab world
August 5^th 2011: Listen to Pete W. Moore of Case Western Reserve University (SSRC Grantee) in "New Perspectives on the Middle East" for Northeast Ohio Public Radio

July 2011

July 6^th 2011: Muslims in Michigan series, funded by SSRC, receives both National Gabriel Award and Detroit Society of Professional Journalists, 1st Place

June 2011

June 29^th 2011: NYT: Michael Cohen and Daniel Serwer discuss withdrawing from Afghanistan for Islam in Focus, a project funded by the SSRC
June 16^th 2011: Marc Lynch on the continued violence in Syria for The Middle East Channel (SSRC Grantee)
June 2^nd 2011: SSRC Grantee POMEPS extends deadline for Middle East travel grants. Deadline: June 10

May 2011

May 4^th 2011: Marc Lynch on "Bin Laden's Quiet End" at the Middle East Channel (SSRC grantee)

March 2011

March 4^th 2011: Karam Dana and Matt A. Barreto of Muslim American Public Opinion Survey (SSRC Grantee) challenge perceptions of mosques in America (CNN)

February 2011

February 18^th 2011: "Arab Uprisings: Bahrain's Turn" from the Project on Middle East Political Science (SSRC grantee)

January 2011

January 31^st 2011: Read in-depth coverage of the developments in the Middle East and North Africa at the Middle East Channel (SSRC Grantee) of ForeignPolicy.com
January 31^st 2011: "Arab media revolution spreading change" by Lawrence Pintak of Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University (SSRC Grantee)
January 25^th 2011: "Tunisia and the Future of Democracy Promotion in the Arab World," by Steven Heydemann on The Middle East Channel (SSRC grantee)
January 24^th 2011: VIDEO BLOG: Ussama Makdisi and Stephen Kinzer discuss the Tunisian revolution

December 2010

December 21^st 2010: Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im Interviewed by BBC on Sudan

November 2010

November 29^th 2010: SSRC funded documentary "The Death of an Imam" to premiere at MSU Dec. 1
November 22^nd 2010: SSRC Grantee Mehrzad Boroujerdi is named President-Elect of the International Society for Iranian Studies

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