The Middle East Institute, together with Tembusu and Cinnamon Colleges at University Town, is holding an inaugural lecture series, “Introduction to the Study of the Contemporary Middle East,” beginning on January 31. The weekly lectures, which will be given by MEI’s research professors on topics ranging from colonialism to oil...

The Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore, is pleased to announce that Visiting Research Professor Peter Sluglett has been named President-Elect of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA).

Professor Sluglett will serve a three-year term from 2011 through 2014, first year as President-Elect, second year as...

This article is written as a response to the previous four articles in the series 'USP and UTown'. It mainly addresses the concerns of the author in her own article "USP: From an Outsider's Perspective", and is not a representative of a collective 'KRC statement', of which there is none,...

By Professor John Richardson, Director of USP

The recent articles about USP raise important issues. I thought it worth my explaining more fully from our perspective what USP is and what it is trying to be.

First, USP is not an identity club or a CCA. It is an academic and intellectual...

This article is a response to another article in this series "USP and UTown", titled "Whither USP?" This article is also written by a non-USP student, who hopes to be able to shed a different light on the issue currently raging within the system....