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The School of Modern Languages wishes to congratulate Professor Lorna Milne of the Department of French, who has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Saeed Talajooy’s translation and analysis book, The One Thousand and First Night, has been selected by BBC Persian as one of the ten important books published in the last Iranian year 1401 (20 March 2022- 19 March 2023).
Congratulations to Pauline Souleau in the Department of French, who has been awarded one of five University Teaching Excellence Awards
