multi-day
Liberating History: Leila and the Wolves (1984)
All day, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
Online screening of LEILA AND THE WOLVES followed by a pre-recorded discussion between filmmaker Heiny Srour and Dr. Rebecca C....
Past Events
multi-day
Serbest Kurdish Studies Conference
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
The conference convenes annually to discuss the experiences and struggles of Kurds, and the historical and comparative study of Kurdish...
multi-day
Serbest Kurdish Studies Conference
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Buffett Institute for Global Studies is hosting its inaugural Kurdish Studies Conference. The Kurdish Studies Conference Series aims to support...
Mar
6
2023
MENA Monday: Unearthing the Substrata of Images: Specters of Oil and Counter-Archives of Extraction in Iran
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join us for MENA Monday. Lunch will be provided. The event will be held in person, a Zoom option...
Feb
27
2023
MENA Mondays: FACULTY COLLOQUIUM | Sufi Ethics, Neoliberal Aesthetics, and Gendered Religious Authority in Turkey-CANCELLED
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this week's MENA Monday event. Lunch will be served. This event will be in person, but a...
Feb
20
2023
MENA Mondays: MENA CONVERSATION | Landscapes of Toxicity
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this week's MENA Monday event. This event is virtual. Register for the Zoom here: https://bit.ly/MENAFeb20 . Title: MENA CONVERSATION...
Feb
6
2023
MENA Mondays: FACULTY COLLOQUIUM | Childhood in Transformation
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this week's MENA Monday event. Lunch will be available. Attending by Zoom is available upon request. Speaker: Maayan...
Jan
30
2023
MENA Mondays: ROUNDTABLE | Dilemmas and Strategies of Research in the Contemporary MENA Region
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join us for MENA Monday. Lunch will be provided. The event is in person, a Zoom option is available...
Jan
23
2023
MENA Mondays: NEW DIRECTIONS IN MENA STUDIES | A Landscape of War
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this week's MENA Monday event. Lunch will be served. This event will be in person, but a...
Jan
9
2023
MENA Mondays: The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this week's MENA Monday event. Lunch provided. This event is co-sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program. Zoom...
Nov
21
2022
MENA Mondays: Everyday Policing in the MENA Region
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this week's MENA Monday *virtual* event. Speakers: Rema Hammami, Birzeit University; Jillian Schwedler, Hunter College; Omar Sirri, Human...
Nov
14
2022
MENA Mondays: Graduate Student Colloquium
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this week's MENA Monday event. Lunchboxes will be available at noon if attendees would like to eat...
Nov
7
2022
MENA Mondays: New Directions in MENA Studies
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this week's MENA Monday event held via Zoom. Register for the event. Speaker: Can Açiksöz, Anthropology, UCLA Salih Can...
Oct
31
2022
MENA Mondays: Faculty Colloquium with Fahri Oz
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this week's MENA Monday event. Lunchboxes will be available at noon if attendees would like to eat...
Oct
17
2022
MENA Mondays: Salafi Piety in the 20th-Century Middle East
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this week's MENA Monday event. Lunchboxes will be available at noon if attendees would like to eat...
Oct
3
2022
MENA Mondays: The Political Afterlives of Migration
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this week's MENA Monday event. Lunchboxes will be available at noon if attendees would like to eat...
Jun
9
2022
Open Studio / Screening - Vartan Avakian, artist in residence of Kaplan and MENA
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Open Studio / Screening With Vartan Avakian, spring 2022 artist in residence of the Kaplan Humanities Institute and the Middle East...
Jun
6
2022
MENA Studies Spring 2022 Graduate Student Colloquium
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
This is a hybrid event Participate via Zoom (must have a Northwestern NetID) Xena Amro, Comparative Literary Studies | Foreigners in Paris:...
Jun
3
2022
Like Water Through Stone: Celebrating Hamid Naficy’s Contributions to Iranian Film and Diaspora Studies (Day Two)
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Day two of our tribute to the extraordinary career and intellectual legacies of Hamid Naficy (Friday June 3) Zoom option (available...
Jun
2
2022
Like Water Through Stone: Celebrating Hamid Naficy’s Contributions to Iranian Film and Diaspora Studies (Opening Night)
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Opening night of our tribute to the extraordinary career and intellectual legacies of Hamid Naficy (Thursday June 2) This event is...
May
26
2022
Returning to Luqmān: Wisdom, Subjectivity, and Islamic Tradition (Dahlia E.M. Gubara)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
This is a hybrid event. No registration is needed to attend in person. Location: Forum Room (2nd Floor), University Library, Evanston...
May
25
2022
Your Skin Shall Bear Witness Against You — On Memory, Materiality, and the Body of the Witness (Vartan Avakian)
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Your Skin Shall Bear Witness Against You — On Memory, Materiality, and the Body of the Witness “This is the story...
May
23
2022
MENA Faculty Colloquium | Revolutionary Engineers: Learning, Politics, and Activism at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, 1966-1979
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
This is a hybrid event Register for Zoom option: https://bit.ly/mena-may-23 Presenters Sepehr Vakil is an assistant professor of Learning Sciences in the School of...
May
16
2022
New Directions Lecture | Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt — Andrew Simon in Dialogue
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
This is a hybrid event Register to participate via Zoom Please join us for the Spring 2022 event in our New Directions...
May
11
2022
New Multilateral Development Banks in Turkey and Brazil: Green Lending vs. Business as Usual | Ali Rıza Güngen (York University), Stephen Nelson (Northwestern), Şeyma Kabaoğlu (Northwestern)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies (Northwestern Buffett)
New Multilateral Development Banks in Turkey and Brazil: Green Lending vs. Business as Usual | Ali Rıza Güngen (York University),...
May
9
2022
Archives without Documents — A MENA Conversation
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Register for the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/archives-without This conversation will bring together scholars working on questions of archives and documents, or their absence,...
May
2
2022
Oil and Arabic Literature in the Cold War — A Talk by Elizabeth Holt
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
This is a hybrid event Register to participate via Zoom When British Petroleum was looking to have their film The Third River...
Apr
25
2022
Luminous Shadows: Performance and Praxis in SWANA
12:00 PM - 2:45 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Luminous Shadows: Performance and Praxis in SWANA Performances: 12:30 - 1:50 pm faggy faafi Cairo boy: a staged reading by Mariam Bazeed a...
Apr
20
2022
CoGIS, "To See What Is Coming: Life, Death and their Ever-shifting Threshold In Contemporary Iran," A Talk by Dr. Shahla Talebi
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Colloquium for Global Iran Studies
Northwestern's Colloquium for Global Iran Studies (CoGIS) presents a Talk by Dr. Shahla Talebi: "To See What Is Coming: Life, Death...
Apr
20
2022
Conversation with Banu Gökarıksel (UNC Chapel Hill) on her book project, The Neighbor Who Might Kill You: Encounter and Difference in Urban Turkey, with commenter Kabir Tambar (Stanford University)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies (Northwestern Buffett)
Banu Gökarıksel (UNC Chapel Hill) joins us for an online conversation on her book project, The Neighbor Who Might Kill...
Apr
18
2022
Exploring Middle East & North Africa Resources at Northwestern University Libraries — A Tour with Curator Esmeralda Kalé
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this tour of the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, led by Esmeralda Kalé, the George...
Apr
4
2022
State Control in Turkey: Resistant Encounters in War and Peace | Umut Yıldırım (UCLA), Dilan Okçuoğlu (American University), Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies (Northwestern Buffett)
State Control in Turkey: Resistant Encounters in War and Peace | Umut Yıldırım (UCLA), Dilan Okçuoğlu (American University), Wendy Pearlman...
Mar
24
2022
International Relations Speaker Series: Prof. Ayşe Zarakol, "Before the West"
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Department of Political Science
Please join the International Relations Speaker Series as they host Dr. Ayşe Zarakol, Professor of International Relations at the University...
Mar
7
2022
“Let Yourself Rest”: A Lunchtime Conversation with Shirien Damra & Lux Eterna on Art as a Practice of Resistance
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
This is a hybrid event Register to attend in-person Register to participate via Zoom Please join the MENA Studies Program, the Center for...
Mar
4
2022
Book Discussion with Jenny White, Ergün Gündüz, and Özge Samancı
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies (Northwestern Buffett)
Book Discussion with Jenny White (author of graphic novel Turkish Kaleidoscope: Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence), Ergün Gündüz...
Feb
28
2022
Roundtable on Publishing in MENA Studies Journals
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join Rebecca Johnson (Associate Editor, Journal of Arabic Literature), Roberto Mazza (Executive Editor, Jerusalem Quarterly), and Jessica Winegar (Co-Editor, Political...
Feb
21
2022
The Uprisings Since the Uprisings: Algeria, Lebanon, Sudan — A MENA Conversation
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Register for the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/mena-uprisings This event in our quarterly MENA Conversations series will bring together scholars working on popular protest...
Feb
14
2022
Revolutionary Life: The Everyday of the Arab Spring — A Talk by Asef Bayat
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Register for the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/asef-bayat Please join us for this talk by Asef Bayat, Professor of Sociology and Catherine and Bruce...
Feb
7
2022
All Politics Are God’s Politics: Moroccan Islamism and the Sacralization of Democracy — A Talk by Ahmed Khanani
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Register for the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/ahmed-khanani Please join us for this talk by Ahmed Khanani, Plowshares Assistant Professor of Politics and co-director...
Jan
31
2022
New Directions | Visions of Beirut: The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure — Hatim El-Hibri
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Register for the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/visions-of-beirut Please join us for the Winter 2022 event in the New Directions in Middle East and...
Jan
24
2022
Using a MENA PhD Outside the Academy — A Talk by Rob Blecher of the International Crisis Group
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Register for the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/rob-blecher Robert Blecher is an old hand at the International Crisis Group. Currently he directs the organization’s...
Jan
10
2022
MENA Faculty Colloquium—Anoush Tamar Suni | Palimpsests of Violence: Ruination and the Afterlives of Genocide in Anatolia
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Register for the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/mena-anoush-suni Before the 1915 Genocide of Ottoman Armenians, the region of Van—in contemporary southeastern Turkey—held hundreds of...
Dec
8
2021
Histories of the Iranian Left—A Conversation
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
A conversation with Naghmeh Sohrabi (Brandeis), Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi (Goldsmiths), and Manijeh Moradian (Barnard). Moderated by Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi (Princeton). Recent scholarship has...
Nov
18
2021
"7 Sins, 10 Fallacies, 4 Indicators, and What I Learned from Them About Decolonizing Academia" with Murat Ergin (Koç University)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies (Northwestern Buffett)
Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Presents "7 Sins, 10 Fallacies, 4 Indicators, and What I Learned from Them About Decolonizing Academia" with...
Nov
17
2021
The Translator: Film Screening and Panel Discussion
3:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
The in-person event is sold out! Virtual Access still available. Join us for a screening of award-winning filmmaker Rana Kazkaz's new...
Nov
15
2021
MENA Studies Core Faculty Meeting
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Quarterly meeting of the MENA Studies Program core faculty
Nov
8
2021
Refugee Status: Privileged — MENA Faculty Colloquium with Rana Kazkaz
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Register for the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/rana-kazkaz Rana Kazkaz is Assistant Professor in Residence in the Communication Program at Northwestern University in Qatar...
Nov
1
2021
Solidarity When: A MENA Conversation about the Past, Present & Future of Solidarity Politics
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Register for the Zoom link: https://bit.ly/mena-solidarity-when Please join us for this conversation with scholars working on connected political and social movements both...
Oct
25
2021
Testimony: Poetry as Storytelling — A Conversation with Nathalie Handal
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Register for this event: https://bit.ly/nathalie-handal The MENA Interdisciplinary Working Group on Story-telling and Violence: Narratives of Insecurity in the Middle East and...
Oct
11
2021
Western Privilege: Work, Intimacy, and Postcolonial Hierarchies in Dubai — A Lecture by Amélie Le Renard
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Register for this event: https://bit.ly/dubai-privilege Please join Northwestern's Middle East and North African Studies Program for this talk by Amélie Le Renard,...
Oct
4
2021
New Directions | The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity — A Dialogue with Darryl Li
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Register for this event: https://bit.ly/universal-enemy Please join us for the Fall 2021 event in the New Directions in Middle East and North...
Sep
27
2021
MENA Grad student Welcome Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Location TBD
Sep
24
2021
Welcome Reception for MENA Faculty & Graduate Students
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
RSVP: https://www.paperlesspost.com/events/43993549-b43d9a34/replies/649434218-a8529921
Jun
13
2021
Performance and Conversation with Ziv Yehezkel, Renowned Israeli Singer and Composer
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
ARAB-JEWISH CULTURE, IDENTITY AND LANGUAGE -PAST AND PRESENT Performance and Conversation with Ziv Yehezkel, Renowned Israeli Singer and Composer Ziv Yehezkel is...
Jun
4
2021
MENA Faculty Colloquium with Ibrahim Abusharif (NU-Q)
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Social Media and Religious Authority in the Gulf Crisis Ibrahim N. Abusharif is an associate professor in residence in the Journalism...
May
30
2021
Arab-Jewish Intersecting Identities: Gender, Protest and Politics
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
ARAB-JEWISH CULTURE, IDENTITY, AND LANGUAGE: PAST AND PRESENT Arab-Jewish Intersecting Identities: Gender, Protest and Politics Guest Speakers: “The History of the Mizrahi Protest:...
May
23
2021
Performance and Conversation with Tair Haim, Acclaimed Sololist of the band A-WA
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
ARAB-JEWISH CULTURE, IDENTITY, AND LANGUAGE - PAST AND PRESENT Performance and Conversation with Tair Haim, Acclaimed Soloist of the band A-WA Tair...
May
20
2021
The Colloquium for Global Iran Studies Presents: A Panel on Iranian Diaspora Studies
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Register for this event: http://bit.ly/iranian-diaspora-studies The Colloquium for Global Iran Studies Presents: A Panel on Iranian Diaspora Studies Panelists: Persis Karim, Neda Nobari Chair...
May
17
2021
MENA Languages Monday—Turkish Edition | Street Animals & their Place in Turkish Culture: A Conversation about the Film STRAY
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join us for this conversation on the place of street animals in Turkish history and culture, with special emphasis...
May
10
2021
MENA Graduate Student Colloquium
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Presenter: Jesús C. Muñoz (PhD Student, Comparative Literary Studies/MENA Program) Title: “Poetics of Glowing Histories in Flesh and Art: Witnessing the...
May
7
2021
GLOBAL LUNCHBOX | Book Launch for Rebecca C. Johnson's Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by WCCIAS
Registration is required for this event: http://bit.ly/stranger-fictions Please join the Weinberg College Center for International & Area Studies and the Middle East...
May
3
2021
MENA Graduate Student Colloquium
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Presenter: Jesús C. Muñoz (Comparative Literary Studies/MENA) Title: Poetics of Glowing Histories in Flesh and Art: Witnessing the Lives of the...
May
3
2021
Solidarity and Struggle: Connecting Student Movements
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join the MENA Undergrad Group on Monday May 3 at 12:00 p.m. Chicago time / 8:00 p.m. Beirut time...
May
2
2021
Arab-Jewish Culture in Israel Today: Producers, Consumers, and Gatekeepers
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
ARAB-JEWISH CULTURE, IDENTITY, AND LANGUAGE - PAST AND PRESENT Arab-Jewish Culture in Israel Today: Producers, Consumers, and Gatekeepers Guest Speakers: “Arab-Jewish Language,...
Apr
26
2021
Spiritual Subjects: Central Asian Pilgrims and the Ottoman Hajj at the End of Empire (Lâle Can)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Register for this event: http://bit.ly/spiritual-subjects Please join us for the Spring Quarter lecture in our New Directions in Middle East and North...
Apr
18
2021
"In-Between": Arab-Jews in Palestine/Eretz Israel at the Turn of the 20th Century
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
ARAB-JEWISH CULTURE, IDENTITY AND LANGUAGE - PAST AND PRESENT "In-Between": Arab-Jews in Palestine/Eretz Israel at the Turn of the 20th Century Guest...
Apr
15
2021
Glimpses of Iranians in Wander-land: Threshold Literature and the Satire of Survival
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join the Colloquium for Global Iran Studies for an event in which the critically acclaimed novelist and writer Bahiyyih...
Apr
12
2021
MENA Faculty Colloquium with Charif Shanahan: Reading from a New Poetry Collection in Progress
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Charif Shanahan (he/him/his), Associate Professor of Instruction in the Department of English and an Affiliate Faculty Member of the MENA...
Apr
5
2021
The Colloquium for Global Iran Studies (CoGIS) Launch Event
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
You are cordially invited to the launch of The Colloquium for Global Iran Studies (CoGIS) at Northwestern. CoGIS aims to...
Apr
2
2021
Political Violence and Self-Defense in Turkey: History and Ethnography (Melissa Bilal and Haydar Darıcı)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Registration is required for this event: http://bit.ly/political-violence-turkey This event brings together two scholars working on two self-defense struggles of the peoples of...
Mar
8
2021
Dialogue with Kamran Heidari, Director of the Documentary Film Dingomaro: Iran’s Black South
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Registration is required for this event: bit.ly/dingomaro Please join the MENA Graduate Student Group for this dialogue with the Iranian filmmaker Kamran...
Mar
5
2021
Cancelled - Global Lunchbox: Stranger Fictions: A History of the Novel in Arabic Translation (Rebecca Johnson)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by WCCIAS
Please join us for the Global Lunchbox series, a weekly conversational forum hosted by the Weinberg College Center for International...
Feb
22
2021
Racializations: MENA and US Perspectives (A MENA Conversation)
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
This event is free and open to everyone, but registration is required: bit.ly/mena-racializations Please join the Middle East and North African Studies...
Feb
15
2021
Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia—A New Directions Lecture by Rosie Bsheer
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join us for the Winter Quarter lecture in our New Directions in Middle East and North African Studies series,...
Feb
8
2021
Aravrit: Language as a Space of Inclusion
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for a conversation about the potential encapsulated in a language to create powerful emotional space and visibility. We...
Feb
1
2021
Octavia Butler’s KINDRED in Translation: Examining Oppression via Genre-Writing — Mona Kareem in Conversation with Justin Mann
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join the Middle East and North African Studies Program for this conversation with poet and translator Mona Kareem, moderated...
Jan
18
2021
A Roundtable on U.S. Foreign Policy under Biden: China, Africa, Latin America & the Middle East
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by WCCIAS
Please join Northwestern's Center for International and Area Studies and the Evanston Public Library for this roundtable discussion examining the...
Dec
8
2020
Itinerant Objects: Early Modern Mobility and the Spaces In Between
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Elizabeth Rodini will present Itinerant Objects: Early Modern Mobility and the Spaces In Between on Tuesday, December 8th at 4...
Dec
3
2020
There and Back Again: Tracking Gentile Bellini’s Portrait of Sultan Mehmed II
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
On Thursday, December 3rd at 4 PM CT, Elizabeth Rodini will present There and Back Again: Tracking Gentile Bellini’s Portrait...
Nov
30
2020
Race and Blackness in Middle East Studies: A MENA Conversation
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
This event is free and open to everyone, but registration is required: bit.ly/race-middle-east-studies Participants Mandana Limbert is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Queens...
Nov
23
2020
MENA Graduate Colloquium
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Fall Quarter MENA Graduate Colloquium Presenters Maryam Athari (Art History): "Diagnostic Revelations: Rifat Chadirji's Street Photography" Issrar Chamekh (Political Science) "Pathways to Elective Office: Candidate...
Nov
17
2020
Slavery, Colonialism, and Race in the Muslim World
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM, sponsored by Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
The Northwestern University in Qatar Faculty Working Group on Race Invites you to this event in the year-long series Decentering...
Nov
14
2020
kaçak: forms of informality and commodity in modern turkey -- a virtual symposium of ethnography
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies (Northwestern Buffett)
Saturday Nov 14 10 am Chicago / 7 pm Istanbul Please register for this event: https://bit.ly/2GA5qAO Electricity and petroleum stolen from state laid...
Nov
13
2020
Global Lunchbox: Writing Games and the Making of Literary Worlds: The Case of the Afghan Writer Asef Soltanzadah
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by WCCIAS
Please join us for the Global Lunchbox series, a weekly conversational forum hosted by the Weinberg College Center for International...
Oct
30
2020
Liberating History - Inherited Memory: Blood Runs Thicker Than Water (Habibi Collective Shorts II)
All day, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
INHERITED MEMORY: BLOOD RUNS THICKER THAN WATER is a program of short films from Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia, and their diaspora,...
Oct
29
2020
Liberating History - Present Futures: Sci-Fi and Social Ecology (Habibi Collective Shorts I)
All day, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
PRESENT FUTURES: SCI-FI AND SOCIAL ECOLOGY is a program of short films from Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt and their diaspora, guest...
Oct
26
2020
Archival Studies in Arab Women's Essay Film (Róisín Tapponi of the Habibi Collective)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
In this talk, the London-based curator, writer and editor Róisín Tapponi will explore the role of the archive in Arab...
Oct
22
2020
Liberating History: Fatma 75 (1975)
All day, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
Online screening of FATMA 75 followed by a live discussion with a scholar of Maghrebi women's cinema Florence Martin FATMA 75 (Selma...
Oct
20
2020
[UN SDGs Webinar 2] Ecologies of Crisis and the Proliferation of Violence
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
The year 2020 has brought about global insecurity in unprecedented and inexplicable ways. This panel will take the Arab World,...
Oct
15
2020
Liberating History: The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni (2011)
All day, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
Online screening of THREE DISAPPEARANCES followed by a pre-recorded discussion between filmmaker Rania Stephan and Dr. Hannah Feldman THE THREE DISAPPEARANCES...
Oct
2
2020
Global Lunchbox: Funerals, Protests, and Martyrs: Listening to the Arab Revolutions (Shayna Silverstein)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by WCCIAS
Please join us for the Global Lunchbox series, a weekly conversational forum hosted by the Weinberg College Center for International...
Sep
28
2020
Support the 41: Iranian Student Activism in Northern California, 1970-1971 (Ida Yalzadeh)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join the Middle East and North African Studies Program, the Asian American Studies Program, and the Chabraja Center for...
Sep
2
2020
Meet the MENA Program (on Zoom) at the Academic Directions Fair!
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this Zoom session to learn about Northwestern's Middle East and North African Studies Program at the Academic...
Jun
8
2020
Offshore Citizens: Permanent Temporary Status in the Gulf — New Directions Lecture by Noora Lori (via Zoom)
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join us on Zoom for this discussion with Professor Noora Lori of Boston University, author of Offshore Citizens: Permanent...
May
11
2020
Webinar: Watermelon Democracy: Egypt’s Turbulent Transition (Joshua Stacher)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join the MENA Program and the Evanston Public Library for this FREE webinar with the political scientist Joshua Stacher,...
May
4
2020
Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria (Lisa Wedeen)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join the Middle East and North African Studies Program for this discussion with Lisa Wedeen on her new book,...
Apr
20
2020
Webinar: Public Diplomacy Mediawork—The Exercise of Soft Power Between Iran & the US (Hamid Naficy)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join the MENA Program and the Evanston Public Library for this FREE webinar with Hamid Naficy, a pioneering scholar...
Mar
9
2020
Keyman Visiting Professor talk, "Local elections in competitive authoritarian regimes: Turkey’s 2019 municipal elections as critical juncture"
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies (Northwestern Buffett)
Kerem Öktem, 2019-2020 Keyman Visiting Professor presents his talk, "Local elections in competitive authoritarian regimes: Turkey’s 2019 municipal elections as...
Mar
9
2020
MENA Graduate Student Colloquium
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Presentations by MENA graduate students on their research Details to come...
Mar
5
2020
Block Cinema: A Moon for My Father (2019) with filmmaker Mania Akbari in person
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
A Moon For My Father (Mania Akbari, 2019, UK/Iran/Germany, DCP, 85 min) At age 30, Iranian filmmaker Mania Akbari was diagnosed with...
Mar
2
2020
The Criminalization of Kindness: The Legality and Politics of Migrant Rescue across the Sahara and the Mediterranean
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Across the globe in migrant receiving states there has been an increase in state criminalization of civil assistance for refugees...
Feb
28
2020
Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality — A Talk by Ian Lustick
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join the MENA Program at the Evanston Public Library for this presentation by political scientist Ian Lustick of the...
Feb
20
2020
Film Screening & Discussion: The Fabulous Life and Thought of Ahmad Fardid
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join us for this FREE screening of the documentary film The Fabulous Life and Thought of Ahmad Fardid (Ali...
Feb
14
2020
The Aftermath of the Assassination of Qassem Soleimani
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
The assassination of Qassem Soleimani and the subsequent shooting down of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 shook the world. But...
Feb
3
2020
A Tale of Two Camps: Yemeni Refugees & Ethiopian Migrants in the Horn of Africa (Nathalie Peutz)
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join the MENA Program and the Colloquium on Refugees, Migrants, and Statelessness at the Evanston Public Library for this...
Feb
3
2020
New Directions Lecture: Islands of Heritage: Conservation and Transformation in Soqotra (Yemen) (Nathalie Peutz)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join us for the Winter 2020 lecture in our quarterly New Directions in Middle East and North African Studies...
Jan
13
2020
The Kurdish Question and Academic Expertise: Borders, Territories, and Statelessness
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
The Kurds, a nation that most Americans had not heard of until 2014, have been in the headlines since Kurdish...
Jan
7
2020
The Promises and Perils of Conducting Academic Research in Egypt: A Lecture by Khaled Fahmy
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
In light of the severe crackdown in Egypt on press freedom, academic inquiry and research in general, this talk will...
Jan
6
2020
Opening up a Few Corpses: Islam, Dissection and Modernity (Khaled Fahmy)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
In this lecture, historian Khaled Fahmy will describe the process by which modern medicine was introduced in early 19th-century Egypt....
Dec
2
2019
MENA Graduate Student Colloquium
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Presentations by MENA doctoral students Open only to Northwestern graduate students and faculty Hazal Ozdemir (Department of History) “They Migrate by Renouncing Their...
Nov
25
2019
Fog in Seven Movements: Connecting Anti-Atlas Communities to Fog-Harvested Water (Jamila Bargach)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
This presentation will take as its initial moment the situation of some 15 villages living with no water-access, as it...
Nov
18
2019
Defeated Revolutionaries, Lasting Legacies: The Afterlife of Revolution in Dhufar, Oman (Alice Wilson)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Post-conflict authoritarian states often rely on patronage and repression as strategies to quell dissent and to win hearts and minds....
Nov
11
2019
Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora (Devi Mays)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Devi Mays is Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, where she is...
Nov
4
2019
The Rise of Populist Majoritarianism in Turkey and Greece (Ioannis Grigoriadis)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join the MENA Program and the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program for this lecture by Keyman Visiting Scholar Ioannis N. Grigoriadis, who...
Oct
28
2019
The Powers of the Matriarch: Capital, Culture and Kindred in an Arab-Asian Diaspora (Michael Gilsenan)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join the Middle East and North African Studies Program for this lecture by Professor Michael Gilsenan of New York...
Oct
23
2019
A Conversation with New Yorker Writer Dexter Filkins & Kickoff Reception for the Weinberg College Center for International & Area Studies
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by International Studies
Please join the Weinberg College Center for International and Area Studies at Northwestern for this special event featuring New Yorker...
Oct
7
2019
Becoming Shinqiti: Saharan Islamic Scholars and Global Religious Authority (Zekeria Ahmed Salem)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Zekeria Ahmed Salem is Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University and Director of the Institute for the Study...
Sep
30
2019
Documenting Syria: Film-Making, Video Activism & Revolution (Joshka Wessels)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Syria is one of the most important countries in the world for the documentary film industry. Since the 1970s, Syrian...
Sep
18
2019
MENA Languages at the Academic Directions Fair
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Want to find out about studying Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, and Persian, study abroad and other options for your course of study?...
Sep
18
2019
MENA Studies Program at the Academic Directions Fair!
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Want to find out about studying the cultures, history, politics, and arts of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)?...
Sep
17
2019
Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish Placement Exams/Oral Interviews
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
If you still need to take the Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish or Persian placement exam, would like to discuss placement results,...
Jun
3
2019
How Can This be Legal? Religion and the “Muslim Ban” — Beth Hurd
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Within one week of becoming president in January 2017, Donald Trump issued an executive order entitled “Protecting the Nation From...
Jun
3
2019
MENA Movie Night: The Matchmaker (Israel)
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
From the New York Times: In the summer of 1968 in Haifa, Israel, a teenager named Arik (Tuval Shafir) finds his...
Jun
3
2019
The Border President: The "Muslim Ban,” National Security, and the Politics of Religion — A Talk by Beth Hurd
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Within one week of becoming president in January 2017, Donald Trump issued an executive order entitled “Protecting the Nation From...
May
30
2019
The Music Scene in Iran: A Screening of the Documentary Film Bazm-e Razm
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Vahid Hosseini’s 120-minute documentary Bazm-e Razm (Feast of War) tells the tumultuous story of the Iranian music scene between 1979...
May
21
2019
Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires — A Lecture by Faiz Ahmed
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
August 19, 2019 will mark the 100th anniversary of Afghanistan’s independence from Britain. Commemorating the roots and legacies of that...
May
20
2019
Rethinking Politics from Below in Contemporary Turkey — A Talk by Elise Massicard
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Political science schlarship on Turkey has long been dominated by top-down and macro approaches. In recent decades, other disciplines have challenged the institutional...
May
18
2019
Film Screening + Discussion: Naila and the Uprising
1:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join us for this FREE screening of the documentary film Naila and the Uprising, followed by an in-depth discussion with...
May
16
2019
Last Days of the Man of Tomorrow: Screening of the Lebanese Science-Fiction Short & Discussion with the Director
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join the MENA Program and the Block Museum of Art for this FREE screening of Last Days of the Man...
May
13
2019
Refugees and Asylum Seekers —Telling their Stories, Understanding their Journeys
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join us for this discussion about how to tell the stories of refugees and asylum-seekers — in Chicago and...
May
13
2019
Kedi: A Documentary Film about the Stray Cats of Istanbul
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
MENA Movie Night! A profile of an ancient city and its unique people, seen through the eyes of the most mysterious...
May
13
2019
Maimonides the Mālikī — A Lecture by Marc Herman
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Moses Maimonides (1138-1204) penned perhaps the most comprehensive medieval account of rabbinic tradition. But his ideas were at odds with...
May
6
2019
MENA Graduate Student Colloquium
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Presentations by MENA doctoral students Open only to Northwestern graduate students and faculty Özge Karagöz (Department of Art History) Turkish Post-Revolutionary Figuration in the...
Apr
29
2019
Dilemmas of an Israeli Journalist Covering Palestine: Amira Hass
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Amira Hass has been a correspondent for Haaretz, Israel’s oldest newspaper, for 30 years. She joined the paper in 1989...
Apr
29
2019
Dilemmas of an Israeli Journalist Covering Palestine: Amira Hass
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Amira Hass has been a correspondent for Haaretz, Israel’s oldest newspaper, for 30 years. She joined the paper in 1989...
Apr
25
2019
Reporting Islam: Media, Policy, Politics
All day, sponsored by Global Politics and Religion Research Group
This international symposium will bring scholars of Islam, international and public affairs, education, race, and law together with practicing journalists...
Apr
23
2019
The Aftermath of ISIS in Iraq: A Talk by Nussaibah Younis
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
The Iraqi government, with support of coalition forces, has mounted an effective military defeat of ISIS in Iraq. But the...
Apr
15
2019
CANCELLED Anthropology Colloquium: Orkideh Behrouzan, SOAS, University of London
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Co-sponsored by MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICAN STUDIES PROGRAM
Apr
15
2019
The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
In the 17th and 18th centuries, a pioneering community of Christian scholars laid the groundwork for the modern Western understanding...
Apr
12
2019
Apr
11
2019
Saharan Futures Conference Keynote
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Program of African Studies
Keynote Address by Ann McDougall, University of AlbertaShifting Desert Sands: Mobility, Migration and Memory in Saharan Time and SpaceReception to...
Apr
8
2019
Voices of Jordan — A Talk by Jordanian Journalist Rana Sweis
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join the MENA Program, the Medill School of Journalism, abd the Evanston Public Library for this discussion with Jordanian...
Mar
11
2019
Anthropology Colloquium: Brinkley Messick, Columbia University
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
The Anthropologist as Reader My recent book, Sharīʿa Scripts: A Historical Anthropology (Columbia. 2018), offers an interdisciplinary account of a locally...
Mar
6
2019
Space for Historians: Preliminary Reflections on a Monograph Précis — A Talk by Cyrus Schayegh
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Cyrus Schayegh is Professor of International History at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Before joining the...
Mar
4
2019
War Is Coming: Between Past and Future Violence in Lebanon
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
From 1975 to 1990, Lebanon experienced a long war involving various national and international actors. The peace agreement that followed...
Mar
4
2019
Sireen: An Oral History of Palestinian Dispossession and Resistance
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
This talk is based on an oral history of a Palestinian family, tracing its experience from 1967 to the present....
Feb
25
2019
Sovereignty as Self-Elimination: The Israeli Case — A Lecture by Joyce Dalsheim
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Joyce Dalsheim is a cultural anthropologist and Associate Professor of Global Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is...
Feb
23
2019
Film Screening — Mouth Harp in Minor Key: Hamid Naficy on/in Exile
1:00 PM - 3:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Mouth Harp in Minor Key: Hamid Naficy on/in Exile(Maryam Sepehri, 2017, Iran/USA, digital, 62 min.) Please join us for this FREE...
Feb
20
2019
MENA Movie Night: Amreeka
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join us for the 1st screening of the new MENA Film Series! We will see Amreeka, by the Palestinian-American director...
Feb
19
2019
Revival from Below, The Deoband Movement and Global Islam
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Religious Studies Department
Revival From Below: The Deoband Movement and Global Islam Faculty Book Colloquium presented by Professor Brannon Ingram, featuring panelists Professor Michelle...
Feb
18
2019
The Saudi-Iranian Struggle for Supremacy — A Talk by Simon Mabon
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
For two consecutive years now, the International Crisis Group has put the Saudi-Iranian rivalry on its annual list of the...
Jan
28
2019
Why Alliances Fail: Islamist and Leftist Coalitions in North Africa — Evanston Public Library
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
The Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA) and the Middle East and North African Studies Program...
Jan
28
2019
Why Alliances Fail: Islamist and Leftist Coalitions in North Africa
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
The Middle East and North African Studies Program (MENA) is pleased to present this program in partnership with the Institute for the...
Jan
24
2019
Can Candan: The current state of academic freedoms in Turkey
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies (Northwestern Buffett)
In January 2016, 1128 academics in Turkey signed a petition as "Academics for Peace" protesting the Turkish government's attack on...
Jan
17
2019
Robert Launay: Savages, Romans, and Despots
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Department
Robert Launay presents work from his new book "Savages, Romans, and Despots," a tour of early modern and modern history...
Nov
28
2018
"The Feeling of Being Watched" - Documentary film / Q&A with director Assia Boundaoui
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
A filmmaker digs into tales of surveillance inside her Arab-American neighborhood in Chicago’s south suburbs and discovers that her hometown...
Nov
28
2018
Ismail Besikci and Wendy Pearlman: Kurds’ Right to Self-Determination and the International Political Order
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
Ismail Beşikçi is a renowned sociologist, Kurdologist, PEN Honorary Member, and former Nobel Peace Prize candidate who caught the attention...
Nov
12
2018
MENA Study Abroad Information Session
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Come learn from the Undergraduate Learning Abroad Office about study abroad options in the MENA region including Israel, Jordan, Morocco,...
Nov
12
2018
Irfan Ahmad: Beyond the “Secular/Enlightenment” Frame: Critique as an Everyday Practice among Muslims
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Global Politics and Religion Research Group
Challenging common views of Islam as hostile to critical thinking, Ahmad delineates thriving traditions of critique in Islamic culture, focusing...
Nov
5
2018
Signs of Satan in Iran: Hollywood, Cosmopolitanism, Paranoia — Alireza Doostdar
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Hollywood productions live complex social lives in Iran. They are consumed as objects of entertainment, contemplated as vehicles of spiritual...
Oct
8
2018
Timothy Mitchell - "On Capitalization"
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Science in Human Culture Program - Klopsteg Lecture Series
Speaker Timothy Mitchell, Columbia University Title On Capitalization Abstract We have recently come to understand “the economy” not as a feature of all societies,...
Jun
7
2018
Symposium: Rethinking the 'Muslim World': Concepts, History, Law, Politics
All day, sponsored by Global Politics and Religion Research Group
Symposium: Rethinking the 'Muslim World': Concepts, History, Law, Politics.” The event will feature the recent work of Iza Hussin (The Politics...
Jun
4
2018
Why is Sectarian Conflict on the Rise in the Middle East? A Talk by Danny Postel
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
As the Middle East descends further and further into a maelstrom of violence and state breakdown, the new conventional wisdom in Western...
May
25
2018
Life on the Border: The Cinema of Bahman Ghobadi — No One Knows About Persian Cats
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this series of screenings and conversations with the critically-acclaimed Iranian-Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi, who has been called...
May
24
2018
Life on the Border: The Cinema of Bahman Ghobadi — Turtles Can Fly
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this series of screenings and conversations with the critically-acclaimed Iranian-Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi, who has been called...
May
23
2018
Life on the Border: The Cinema of Bahman Ghobadi — A Time for Drunken Horses
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join us for this series of screenings and conversations with the critically-acclaimed Iranian-Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi, who has been called...
May
21
2018
The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt — Omnia El Shakry (New Directions Lecture)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
In 1945, psychologist Yusuf Murad introduced an Arabic term borrowed from the medieval Sufi philosopher and mystic Ibn ‘Arabi — al-la-shu‘ur —...
May
14
2018
The Quotidian Politics of Agrarian Rurality in Morocco — Karen Rignall
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
This talk will explore what the experience of commoning in a Moroccan oasis might tell us about land, politics, and...
May
10
2018
"Nazım Hikmet and the Prose of Communism" (Nergis Ertürk, Penn State University)
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Comparative Literary Studies
Comparative Literary Studies Program Speaker Series. Professor Ertürk will discuss current book project on early twentieth-century Turkish and Soviet literary encounters. Please note,...
May
7
2018
Religious Freedom in Arab States: Who Is Free and What Are They Free to Do? A Talk by Nathan Brown (MENA Monday Night at the Evanston Public Library)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Most Arab states have an official religion and make some provisions for religious law in some areas. But they also...
May
7
2018
Reinventing the Wheel: Constitutions as Iterative Documents — Nathan Brown
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Constitutions are often seen — and present themselves — as moments of creation. But in fact, most states writing constitutions...
Apr
30
2018
Counter-Revolutionary Aesthetics in Egypt — Jessica Winegar
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Fresh back from Egypt, Jessica Winegar will present preliminary material from her book-in-progress that examines how aesthetic forms, judgments, and practices...
Apr
23
2018
When Law is Not Enough: Controversies over Muslim Rights in the US — Nadia Marzouki (MENA Monday Night at the Evanston Public Library)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Disputes over the scope of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution have played a central role in contemporary debates about...
Apr
23
2018
Back to the Future? Tunisia's Democratic Constitutional Order Under Threat — Nadia Marzouki
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
The adoption of Tunisia's 2014 constitution has been widely celebrated as a major achievement of the North African country's 2011 revolution....
Apr
20
2018
Footnotes and Fragments: Rabih Mroué on War and Its Images
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Block Museum of Art
Please join us for a screening of Footnotes, a recent video by the celebrated Lebanese artist, actor, and playwright, Rabih...
Apr
16
2018
Political Spectacles and Emotional Mobilization in Turkey — Senem Aslan
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
This paper explores the symbolic foundations of power-making in Turkey over the last decade. Particularly after the Gezi Protests, as the...
Apr
7
2018
Free Performance by Iraqi-Canadian Hip-Hop Artist Yassin “Narcy” Alsalman
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join us for this FREE performance by Iraqi-Canadian Hip-Hop Artist Yassin NARCY Alsalman! YASSIN "Narcy" ALSALMAN is an Iraqi-Canadian musician,...