Mbaye Lo Named Director of Duke’s Islamic Studies Center and Middle East Studies Center

Mbaye Lo has been appointed director of the Duke Islamic Studies Center and Duke University Middle East Studies Center, effective Aug. 1. Lo, a professor of the practice of Asian and Middle Eastern studies and international comparative studies, will serve a two-year term. He succeeds Adam Mestyan, who in July joined the faculty at Harvard University. Lo has written or edited nine books that examine the intersection of intellectual and social discourse of Arabic/Islamic and African cultures, including most recently “I Cannot Write My Life Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar Ibn Said…