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‘Building bridges’: Iraqi Global Guide offers tours, personal insight
Yaroub Al-Obaidi stands in front of a sign reading Middle East Galleries inside the Penn Museum.

Yaroub Al-Obaidi is a Global Guide at the Penn Museum’s Middle East Galleries.

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‘Building bridges’: Iraqi Global Guide offers tours, personal insight

Yaroub Al-Obaidi, an Iraqi artist and scholar who settled in Philadelphia in 2016, gives Penn Museum visitors an insider’s view of the Middle East Galleries and creates connections with U.S. Iraq War veterans.

Kristen de Groot

A new role for NATO in conflict zones
A damaged area in Mosul. Image: Gina Haney

A view of Mosul following attacks on the city by ISIS. Image: Gina Haney

(Image: Gina Haney)

A new role for NATO in conflict zones

One year after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, PIK Professor Lynn Meskell calls on the alliance to take a more expansive view of cultural property protection.

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Understanding India’s urban future
khandela city streets

An unpaved road in Khandela. Most small towns have poor-quality roads, Thachil says. “They need everything.”

(Image: Tariq Thachil)

Understanding India’s urban future

A two-year project supported by Penn Global and the Center for the Advanced Study of India takes a deep dive into the political workings of India’s rapidly urbanizing landscape.

Kristina García

The future of health research in Malawi
Four peple standing, posing for the camera. Three are students at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences. The fourth is a professor there, Adamson Muula.

Adamson Muula (second from left), a professor of public health & epidemiology at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, and students.

(Image: Courtesy of Young Researchers Forum Malawi and KUHeS Research Support Center)

The future of health research in Malawi

A workshop convened by Penn, University College Dublin, and the Young Researchers Forum in Malawi brought together stakeholders to discuss the African nation’s use of technology in health care and the double burden of non-communicable and infectious diseases.

Michele W. Berger

Marci Hamilton works to prevent child sex abuse globally
Marci Hamilton sits at a table beside large windows overlooking campus.

Marci Hamilton, Professor of Practice in Political Science. (Image: Jason Varney/OMNIA)

Marci Hamilton works to prevent child sex abuse globally

A new initiative from Hamilton’s CHILD USA and a survivor-led nonprofit called the Brave Movement will research statutes of limitations for every country in the world and track their findings in a global dashboard.

Michele W. Berger

Archiving empire with religious studies’ Megan Robb
Three people stand in front of Cohen Hall

Professor Megan Robb (center) worked with a team of students including Michael Goerlitz (left) and Juliana Lu (right) to create a digital archive centered on Elizabeth Sharaf-un-Nisa, an 18th-century Mughal woman who cohabited with a European man working for the East India Company, bearing children, marrying him, and ultimately living out the remainder of her life in England. 

Archiving empire with religious studies’ Megan Robb

A long-unseen archive centered on an 18th-century Mughal woman will soon be publicly accessible, thanks to the work of religious studies professor Megan Robb of the School of Arts & Sciences and a team of Penn students.

Kristina García

Connecting students with Indigenous leaders
Tirua Sur Chile statues In Tirua Sur, Chile, carved wooden figures called chemamüll mark the graves of deceased Mapuche people. (Image: Tulia Falleti)

Connecting students with Indigenous leaders

People of the Land, a new Penn Global seminar taught by political science Professor Tulia Falleti, enables students to learn from Indigenous community members in South America.

Kristina García

Historian Mia Bay on ‘Traveling Black’
Historical photograph of Union Terminal waiting room with African American travelers

Jacksonville Union Terminal segregated waiting room during the Great Migration.

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    • Historian Mia Bay on ‘Traveling Black’

    The professor of history’s new book explores the intertwined history of travel segregation and African American struggles for freedom of movement.

    Kristen de Groot

    Connecting with a Deaf community on the other side of the world
    A group of people standing in front of a white statue in Rome, Italy.

    A Penn Global Seminar on global deaf culture led by Penn linguist Jami Fisher (5th from left) included visiting sites in Rome, Italy, like Bernini’s Fontana dei Quatro Fiumi in Piazza Navona, above. Often, the group was led by a guide who was signing in Italian sign language. It gave the students a chance to experience what life is like not only for deaf people in general, but also a deaf community in another part of the world. (Photo courtesy: Jami Fisher)

    Connecting with a Deaf community on the other side of the world

    On a trip abroad to Italy that capped off the Penn Global Seminar taught by linguist Jami Fisher, students got a firsthand look at the diversity and variety of global deaf culture.

    Michele W. Berger

    Can social media be less toxic?

    Can social media be less toxic?

    A new study by Annenberg School for Communication doctoral student Timothy Dörr explores how social media can encourage good behavior online.

    Hailey Reissman

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