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<div style="font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 28px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria">"Christianity and Islam in the Middle East: </font></b></span></div>
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<p style="text-align: justify; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria">Stephen Davis is Professor of Religious Studies, specializing in the history of ancient and medieval Christianity, with a special focus on the eastern Mediterranean and the Near
East. In 2013, he was appointed Master of Pierson College, one of the twelve residential colleges at Yale. Prior to coming to Yale in 2002, Davis lived in Egypt for four years, where he was professor and academic dean at an Arabic-language theological college
in Cairo. His areas of teaching and research at Yale include the study of women and gender, pilgrimage and the cult of the saints, the history of biblical interpretation and canon formation, Egyptian Christianity, Arabic Christianity and its relation to Islam,
early Christian art and material culture, and the application of anthropological, sociological, and literary methods in the study of historical texts.</font></p>
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<div class="field-item even" style="text-align: justify; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria">Frank Griffel: After studying philosophy, Arabic literature, and Islamic studies at universities in Göttingen (Germany), Damascus, Berlin,
and London, Frank Griffel received his PhD in 1999 from the Free University in Berlin. In his thesis he wrote about the development of the judgment of apostasy in classical Islam. After that he worked as a research fellow at the Orient Institute of the German
Oriental Society in Beirut, Lebanon. In 2000 he came to Yale where he teaches courses on the intellectual history of Islam, its theology (both classical and modern), and the way Islamic thinkers react to Western modernity.</font></div>
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<div class="field-item even" style="font-size: medium; text-align: center; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria">The event is organized by the Hellenic Studies Program and the Council on Middle East Studies at the MacMillan Center</font></div>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria">For more information about the Program's activities visit our website at <a href="http://www.yale.edu/macmillan/hsp"><span style="color: rgb(0, 14, 237); ">http://www.yale.edu/macmillan/hsp</span></a> . Please also
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="Cambria">The activities of the Hellenic Studies Program are generously funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for Hellenic Studies at Yale University. </font></p>
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