Congratulations to Ramon Stern who successfully defended his dissertation. Geographies of Escape, Pathologies of Attachment: Diasporic Difference and Arab Ethnicity Re-Examined. Congratulations also to Co-chairs, Cristina Mereiras-Menor and Ruth Tsoffar, and the rest of the committee, Yago Colas, Elliot Colla (Georgetown University), Christi Merrill, and Anton Shammas.