Associate Professor of Middle Eastern History Nabil Al-Tikriti agreed to join the 2018 Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Book Prize Committee. For this service, the five committee members must review a total of approximately 125 books for three prizes: the Albert Hourani Book Award; the Nikki Keddie Book Award; and the The Fatima Mernissi Book Award.

Al-Tikriti Joins Middle East Book Prize Committee

On June 24, 2017, in his final capacity as MSF/Doctors Without Border USA’s 2016-17 Vice President, Nabil Al-Tikriti chaired a panel which he had co-organized, titled "Navigating in a New Political Environment." The panel was aimed at NGO stakeholders and held at the annual MSF USA General Assembly in New York City, an annual gathering where MSF field staff debate pressing issues in contexts where they operate as well as elect new members to the MSF USA Board of Directors.

Al-Tikriti Chairs MSF Panel in NYC General Assembly

Nabil Al-Tikriti, associate professor of Middle Eastern history, served as an election monitor for the Montenegro parliamentary elections. Joining eight other Americans in the U.S. delegation, Al-Tikriti worked as an OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) STO (Short Term Observer) in several rural villages and a provincial capital in the mountains, Mojkovac. His observation partner was a Russian diplomat based in Slovenia.

Al-Tikriti Monitors Montenegro Parliamentary Elections

In the summer of 2016, Associate Professor of History and American Studies Nabil Al-Tikriti carried out several activities while continuing to actively serve as a member of the Board of Directors of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders USA. Read more: https://eagleeye.umw.edu/2016/09/06/al-tikriti-serves-iraq-ethiopia-leads-international-migration-workshop/

Al-Tikriti Serves in Iraq and Ethiopia, Leads International Migration Workshop

Awarded by the American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT).

Faculty Research Grant

Awarded by the Georg-Eckert-Institut für internationale Schulbuchforschung.

Research Grant

Awarded by the University of Mary Washington.

Faculty Achievement Award

Awarded by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP).

Jennings Randolph Fellowship

Faculty Development Grant

Carried out dissertation-related archival research in the National Library of Malta

University of Chicago Humanities Division Overseas Research Grant

Awarded by Institute for Turkish Studies 

Dissertation Writing Grant

Finalist for Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Writing Grant for Ethics and Theology

Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Writing Grant

Examined and collected manuscript and archival materials at the Süleymaniye, Topkapı Palace, Istanbul University and Millet Library collections in Istanbul with official Turkish government research permission. 

Conducted research visits to manuscript collections in Ankara, Diyarbekir, Elmalı, Erzerum, Konya, Sivas and Damascus.

Fulbright-Institute for International Education Turkey Fellowship

Dissertation Title: “Şehzade Korkud (ca. 1468-1513) and the Articulation of 16th Century Ottoman Religious Identity” 

Thesis Title: “Philology of al-Jahiz’s (d. 869) Prose Works” 

MSF/Doctors Without Borders USA: Member, Board of Directors, 2011-2017

American Association of University Professors : Member

American Civil Liberties Union : Member

American Historical Association : Member

Middle East Studies Association : Member

Turkish Voters Upset Erdogan’s Competitive Authoritarianism

Civilians in Mosul's Battle of Annihilation

Extending the Borders of Europe: An Interview with Aurélie Ponthieu

Confronting the New Turkey

Syrian and Iraqi Conflicts Move Turkey to the Heart of Europe's Refugee Crisis

An Ottoman View of World History: Kātip Çelebi’s Takvīmü’t-tevārīẖ

The Limits of Soft Power: Why Kurdish Nationalism Failed in the French Mandate of Syria

Addressing Iraqi Forced Migration: U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Testimony

Was there an Iraq before there was an Iraq?

"Stuff Happens": A Brief Overview of the 2003 Destruction of Iraqi Manuscript Collections, Archives, and Libraries

Kalam in the Service of State: Apostasy and the Defining of Ottoman Islamic Identity

War, State Collapse and the Predicament of Education in Iraq

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Nabil Al-Tikriti doesn’t just teach Middle Eastern history, he lives it.

Aboard the Bourbon Argos rescue ship in May 2015, the University of Mary Washington professor witnessed the desperation of refugees making the perilous Mediterranean crossing from North Africa to Greece and Italy. As a relief worker in Somalia, he saw how famine ravaged millions in the country during the ’90s. As an official observer, he viewed the emotional 2014 presidential election in Ukraine in the aftermath of the country’s violent revolution. 

A native of New Orleans, Dr. Al-Tikriti has been a member of Médecins sans Frontières (MSF-Doctors Without Borders) since 1992. He’s traveled with the international humanitarian aid organization to Somalia, Iran, Albania, Turkey, Jordan, Syria, Iraq and Ethiopia, where he negotiated with community leaders, served as liaison with United Nations, nongovernmental organizations and local government personnel; dealt with personnel issues in a war zone, analyzed host government policies and leaders; and conducted an exploratory mission to determine potential MSF activity in Iraq. He joined an MSF team on a humanitarian mission to Syria in 2013 and served as a cultural facilitator on the organization’s ship that rescued thousands of immigrants in the Mediterranean. He served on the MSF-USA Board of Directors from 2011 to 2017, finishing his second term as the 2016-17 Vice President.

Dr. Al-Tikriti has served as a polling station supervisor or election monitor on numerous occasions since 1997, in Bosnia, Kosovo, Ukraine, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia, Montenegro and Albania, for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. 

A faculty member at UMW since 2004, the associate professor of history and American studies was awarded a 2018 Fulbright Scholar Fellowship to teach and conduct research in Azerbaijan; and a 2007 Jennings Randolph Fellowship at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., where he researched the effects on Iraqi civil society of the 2003 Anglo-American invasion. He also was recipient of a 2000 Fulbright DDRA Fellowship and a 2011 National Endowment for the Humanities grant. He has delivered conference lectures and presentations in more than a dozen countries, including a keynote lecture on “The State of the Middle East Studies in the American Academy,” for the 5th Joint International Workshop in Tokyo, organized by Kyoto University and the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies."

Humanitarian Affairs

Forced Migration (Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons)

The Modern Middle East

Cultural Patrimony

Modern Iraq

Islamic History

Conflict Studies

History of the Ottoman Empire

Genocide

Higher Education

Modern Turkey

UMW Academia Profile

Civilians in Mosul’s Battle of Annihilation

Suffering and the Limits of Relief

Fauquier schools consider Turkish language courses

"Up All Night radio program, BBC Radio 5 Live

Local professor caught up in Turkey tensions

Facts Behind the Rhetoric: An In-Depth Analysis of Obama's Speech on ISIS

BREAKING: Sunni Militants Capture Cities as Baghdad Braces for an Invasion

Al-Tikriti Participates in NGO Debate, Speaks at Stafford Rotary Club

Global Security

Fulbright Programs

Relief Work and Medical Humanitarianism

Between the World and Me

Usurpation: The Untold Stories of the Iraq War, 2003 to the Present

Northern Iraq

The Situation in Mosul

Refugees and Displaced Persons Exhibit Guide

Migration and Human Rights

Istanbul and Athens Debate

Forced Migration

MSF/Doctors Without Borders Association Event

Ottoman Seas

Integrating Humanitarian Response and Cultural Heritage in Disasters

The Iraq Crisis Today

Global Migration

 Living (with)out Walls: The Korean, Palestinian, Mexican Experience

Greatness Denied: Firdevsi-yi Rumi on the Cusp of Ottoman Sunnism

Associate Professor of History & American Studies

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