Bentley Layton, the Goff Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and a field-transforming scholar, died on March 26.

Every Tuesday, FAS professor Shawkat Toorawa invites members of the campus and New Haven communities to a short presentation on three topics he thinks they should know about.

FAS Professor Shawkat M. Toorawa’s new book is a curated English translation of Qur’anic verses that evokes the literary qualities of the original Arabic in fresh, living, lyrical prose.

Eckart Frahm is one of the world’s foremost experts on the Assyrian Empire. He joined Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 2002.