The Whiting Foundation has named Professor Elias Muhanna a Public Engagement Fellow. Muhanna's project will focus on "the ways in which the rise of mass literacy in the 20th century and the onset of the digital age in the 21st are transforming the relationship between written and spoken Arabic, and, by extension, the cultural and political landscape of the modern Middle East." Professor Muhanna's award was featured in the April 19 issue of the Brown Daily Herald.