Maktaba project introduced at ASA roundtable
Posted October 16, 2025
By Rebecca Shereikis, associate director of the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA) Scholars involved in the Maktaba project reflected...Category: ISITA
Scholars gather to celebrate the career of Charles Stewart
Posted October 16, 2025
By Rebecca Shereikis, associate director of the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA) A conference at the University of Illinois...
Visiting calligrapher instructs and inspires
Posted September 30, 2024
From October 13–20, ISITA hosted visiting artist and scholar Mohameden Ahmedou. A professional calligrapher and historian of the Arabic script based in Noukachott,...
Calligraphy: A bridge between the visual and the linguistic
Posted June 15, 2024
Arabic calligraphy has been a fascinating activity to participate in, revealing unforeseen dimensions of learning that extend far...
Collaboration with Boston University on Ajami in West Africa comes to fruition
Posted June 8, 2024
From 2019 to 2022, ISITA’s associate director Rebecca Shereikis and Northwestern University Libraries collaborated with a team led by Fallou Ngom and Daivi Rodima-Taylor...
ISITA-CSMC workshop emphasizes multidisciplinary approaches to manuscript studies
Posted June 7, 2024
by Rebecca Shereikis, associate director of ISITA A November 16–18, 2023 workshop at the University of Hamburg marked another stage in the ongoing collaboration...
The Lansine Kaba Symposium
Posted October 30, 2023
By Rebecca Shereikis, associate director of ISITA The Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa has organized a half-day symposium October 25,...
NEH award supports development of digital manuscript collection
Posted June 16, 2022
By Rebecca Shereikis, associate director of ISITA The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded a $59,571 planning grant to Northwestern’s Institute for...
Workshop on “Teaching with West African Manuscript Collections”: A student’s perspective
Posted June 14, 2022
By Xena Amro, Northwestern graduate student A May 2022 workshop organized by ISITA and the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures at the...
ISITA welcomes new grad assistant
Posted May 12, 2022
ISITA welcomes Xena Amro as the Institute’s part-time graduate assistant for the 2022-2023 academic year. Xena is a second-year Ph.D. student in Comparative Literary...