The North American Society for Christian Arabic Studies or NASCAS is an informal association of researchers interested in Christian Arabic Studies. While most of us are from the United States and Canada, others are invited and encouraged to participate. Some of us are professors; others are students; others are lay people. All are welcome!
Duke University (June 26-29, 2011)
Conference theme: Syriac Encounters. "To serve as a general framework and an organizational guideline, the theme of Syriac Encounters has been chosen. It allows us to highlight various kinds of diachronic and synchronic interaction and dialogue, formation of communal identity, construction of tradition, language contact, and religious conversation both within Syriac Christianity and between Syriac Christianity and other traditions, in particular Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Islam, and various forms of Western C