{"id":309,"date":"2013-04-17T15:26:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T19:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tumena\/?page_id=309"},"modified":"2016-02-04T09:50:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T14:50:47","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tumena\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">Welcome to the Middle East and North Africa Study Group!\u00a0 We are a productive network of scholars and researchers from various humanities and social science departments at Temple University.\u00a0 Our goal is to advance a broader public understanding of the region from diverse perspectives, to share insights and materials to enhance scholarship and teaching, and finally to promote peace and knowledge through convening academic events and workshops.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">Since 2012-13, we have been hosted by the Center for Humanities at Temple University (CHAT).\u00a0 Since 2015-16, we have\u00a0received funding from the Office of the President&#8217;s\u00a0Arts and Humanities Research Program in our new guise as the Middle East Initiative.\u00a0 We have received also\u00a0event-level support from CHAT, the Department of Political Science, the Department of History, CENFAD, the Global Studies Program, and the Tyler School of Art.\u00a0 We are also grateful for pilot grant\u00a0support from the United States Institute for Peace under their Institutional Peacebuilding Initiative.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Middle East and North Africa Study Group!\u00a0 We are a productive network of scholars and researchers from various humanities and social science departments at Temple University.\u00a0 Our goal is to advance a broader public understanding of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tumena\/about-us\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":470,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-309","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tumena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tumena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tumena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tumena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tumena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tumena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/tumena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}