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
Nov
18
2024
EPL & MENA Present | Sudan's Delayed Transition: How Did We Get Here?
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
In 2019 the Sudanese people peacefully overthrew the military dictatorship that had ruled them for more than 30 years. This...
Nov
18
2024
MENA Monday | The Afrabians: The Rise of the Arab Gulf in the Horn of Africa | Alden Young
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join MENA in welcoming Alden Young, Yale. He will give a lecture "The Afrabians: The Rise of the Arab...
Nov
7
2024
Film Screening: Parviz by Majid Barzega
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by SOC - Department of Radio/TV/Film
We will watch and discuss Majid Barzegar’s film Parviz, which tells the story of a fifty-year-old man who has lived...
Nov
4
2024
MENA Monday | Elastic Empire: Refashioning War Aid in Palestine | Lisa Bhungalia
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join MENA in welcoming Lisa Bhungalia, University of Wisconsin-Madison. She will give a New Directions in Middle East and...
Oct
30
2024
Book Launch Event: Zainab's Traffic: Moving Saints, Selves, and Others Across Borders by Emrah Yildiz (Anthropology & MENA Studies)
3:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Department
Please join us for the book launch event for Zainab's Traffic: Moving Saints, Selves, and Others across Borders. Emrah Yıldız...
Oct
29
2024
Film Screening: Writing on the City by Keywan Karimi
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, sponsored by SOC - Department of Radio/TV/Film
We will watch and discuss Writing on the City by Keywan Karimi. This film explores the history of writings, chants,...
Oct
28
2024
Emergency Teach-In: Understanding Israel's War from the Perspectives of Lebanon and Iran.
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join MENA and International Studies for a roundtable discussion of Lebanese and Iranian perspectives on the current conflict. The...
Oct
24
2024
Women Life Freedom: A Transnational Feminist Dialogue on Social Movements and Solidarities
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
This dialogue brings together feminist scholars and social activists from Iran and the United States to think together about progressive...
Oct
14
2024
MENA Monday | My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine | Sami Hermez and Sireen Sawalha
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join MENA in welcoming Sami Hermez, Northwestern University in Qatar, and his co-author, Sireen Sawalha. They will give a...
Oct
8
2024
MENA | Understanding Allied Struggles: Palestine, Turtle Island, United States
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join MENA for a conversation among leading scholars of violence, racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and militarism in Palestine, Turtle...
Oct
4
2024
WCCIAS Ice Cream Social
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Welcome back to campus for the new academic year! We hope you will join us for an informal ice cream...
Oct
2
2024
Șarık Tara Memorial Lecture: "The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina"
4:30 PM - 8:00 PM, sponsored by Keyman Modern Turkish Studies (Northwestern Buffett)
Join KMTS and Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular, Rutgers University, Newark, for the Șarık Tara Memorial Lecture on October 2, 2024 at 4:30PM...
May
29
2024
Post-1948 Transformations II: Arab-Jews before & after Israeli Statehood | Israel & Palestine: Joint Speaker Series Exploring Fundamental History
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Israel & Palestine: Joint Speaker Series Exploring Fundamental History
Please note that the location for this lecture in the series has changed. This event will take place in the...
May
24
2024
MENA | Palestine in Context | Exile, Palestine, and the Limits of Dissent: Being Syrian in Germany after October 7th
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
In this conversation, Berlin-based Syrian exile playwright Mohammad Al Attar will explore the current climate for discussions of Israel/Palestine in...
May
22
2024
MENA | Towards an Objective Legal Standard: Overcoming the Palestine Exception to Free Speech on Campus
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
The MENA Studies Program invites the university community to this scholarly event delving into some of the most pressing issues...
May
21
2024
Post-1948 Transformations I: The Nakba & Palestinian Identity | Israel & Palestine: Joint Speaker Series Exploring Fundamental History
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Israel & Palestine: Joint Speaker Series Exploring Fundamental History
Since this fall, intense attention has turned to Israel and Palestine. Many on campus who are following events find themselves...
May
20
2024
MENA | Palestine in Context | Stories from the Center of the World: New Middle East Fiction
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join MENA, the Markaz Review, and City Lights Books for a book launch. Editor Jordan Elgrably and contributing author Sahar...
May
20
2024
MENA Monday | MENA Graduate Students Colloquium, Part 2
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Lunch will be served at this event. MENA Program graduate students share their original work. Featuring Aseel Abulhab of Anthropology, Lauren...
May
13
2024
MENA Monday | MENA Studies Graduate Student Colloquium, Part 1
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Lunch will be served at this event. MENA Program Graduate Students will present their original work. Featuring Yousef Bouccetta of Spanish...
May
6
2024
The 1948 War | Israel & Palestine: Joint Speaker Series Exploring Fundamental History
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Israel & Palestine: Joint Speaker Series Exploring Fundamental History
Please note the location for this lecture in the series has changed. It will now take place in the Lake...
May
6
2024
MENA Monday | Fraught Balance: The Embodied Politics of Dabke Dance Music in Syria
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Lunch will be served at this event. Dabke, one of Syria’s most beloved dance music traditions, is at the center of...
Apr
29
2024
MENA Monday | Understanding the Struggle for Sudan
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
This virtual panel discussion convenes leading experts to delve into the causes and dynamics of the current war and humanitarian...
Apr
25
2024
Foundations of Palestinian Nationalism | Israel & Palestine: Joint Speaker Series Exploring Fundamental History
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Israel & Palestine: Joint Speaker Series Exploring Fundamental History
Since this fall, intense attention has turned to Israel and Palestine. Many on campus who are following events find themselves...
Apr
22
2024
CANCELLED-MENA Monday | Transnational Palestine: Migration and the Right of Return Before 1948
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Lunch will be served at this event. Tens of thousands of Palestinians migrated to the Americas in the final decades of...
Apr
15
2024
World War I & European Intervention: Origins of the Palestine Mandate | Israel & Palestine: Joint Speaker Series Exploring Fundamental History
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Israel & Palestine: Joint Speaker Series Exploring Fundamental History
Since this fall, intense attention has turned to Israel and Palestine. Many on campus who are following events find themselves...
Apr
15
2024
MENA Monday | Water on Fire: A Memoir of War
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Lunch will be served at this event. Water on Fire tells a story of immigration that starts in a Beirut devastated...
Apr
9
2024
Zionisms: Variations on a Theme | Israel & Palestine: Joint Speaker Series Exploring Fundamental History
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Israel & Palestine: Joint Speaker Series Exploring Fundamental History
Since this fall, intense attention has turned to Israel and Palestine. Many on campus who are following events find themselves...
Apr
8
2024
MENA Monday | The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Lunch will be served at this event. In The Digital Double Bind, Mohamed Zayani and Joe F. Khalil explore how the...
Apr
4
2024
Late Ottoman Palestine | Israel & Palestine: Joint Speaker Series Exploring Fundamental History
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Israel & Palestine: Joint Speaker Series Exploring Fundamental History
Since this fall, intense attention has turned to Israel and Palestine. Many on campus who are following events find themselves...
Apr
1
2024
MENA Monday | Melancholy Acts: Defeat and Cultural Critique in the Arab World
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Lunch will be served at this event. How do the literatures and cultures of oppressed societies survive and flourish in spite...
Mar
9
2024
LIVE SET PERFORMANCE / DANCE PARTY - DJ İpek İpekçioğlu
9:30 PM - 11:30 PM, sponsored by Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Dance to the tunes of internationally renowned music producer, DJ, and queer activist İpek İpekçioğlu in a live-set performance! Ipek...
Feb
26
2024
POSTPONED TO SPRING (DATE TBD): MENA Monday | Book Talk | My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
MENA welcomes Dr. Sami Hermez (Northwestern University in Qatar). He will discuss his book My Brother, My Land: A Story...
Feb
12
2024
PALESTINE 101 | Building Coalitions for Justice in Gaza & Beyond--An Intergenerational Conversation
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
The impressive local activism we have recently witnessed calling for an end to violence and a just peace in Israel...
Feb
12
2024
MENA Monday | Book Talk | Palestinian Chicago: Identity in Exile
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
MENA welcomes Dr. Loren Lybarger, of Ohio University, who will discuss his book, Palestinian Chicago: Identity in Exile. Lunch will...
Feb
8
2024
PALESTINE 101 | Music Making in the West Bank from 1973 to Oslo: Identity, Agency, and Innovation
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
MENA welcomes musician Issa Boulos for this lecture in the Palestine in Context series. The period from 1973 to 1993 was...
Feb
5
2024
MENA | Virtual Roundtable | Uneven and Sedimented Disasters in Libya and Morocco
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
MENA is pleased to present a roundtable discussion on Zoom, featuring Brahim El Guabli (Williams College), Hamza Hamouchene (Transnational Institute),...
Jan
29
2024
MENA Monday | Eklektik Berlinistan: Queer Pathways through Berlin's Middle Easts
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
MENA is excited to welcome DJ Ipek Ipekcioglu, in conversation with Emrah Yildiz, Northwestern University. Lunch will be served at...
Jan
22
2024
MENA Monday | NEW DIRECTIONS | Revolution Squared: Tahrir, Political Possibilities, and Counterrevolution in Egypt
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
MENA welcomes Dr. Atef Said (University of Illinois Chicago), who will speak on his book, Revolution Squared: Tahrir, Political Possibilities,...
Jan
8
2024
MENA Monday | Mapping as Decolonial Praxis: From Algeria to Palestine and Hawaii
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
MENA welcomes Dr. Nour Joudah (University of California, Los Angeles) as a speaker in the MENA Monday lecture series. Lunch...
Jan
5
2024
MENA | Palestine 101 | Palestine Lives: A Story of Survival
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
MENA welcomes Dr. Nour Joudah (University of California, Los Angeles) to speak in the Palestine 101 event series. In the last...
Nov
20
2023
MENA MONDAY | Digital Pyropoesis: The Flame and the Dish in Islamic State's Universe
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
In this faculty colloquium, Marwan Kraidy, Dean and CEO of Northwestern University in Qatar, will share recent research. As dean and...
Nov
13
2023
Difficult Conversations on Israel and Palestine
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Please join MENA Studies & Jewish and Israeli Studies for this conversation *What is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict all about? Why has...
Nov
13
2023
MENA MONDAYS | Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Book talk by Jillian Schwedler, Hunter College. Kyle Craig, Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, will be discussant. Lunch will be served...
Nov
7
2023
Storytelling & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Nathan Thrall presents A Day in the Life of Abed Salama
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
A semitrailer hits a schoolbus. A father cannot reach his injured child because he holds the wrong ID. Interwoven with...
Oct
30
2023
Anthropology Colloquium: Amahl Bishara, Tufts University
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence & Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression Palestinian activists who are citizens of Israel and those living...
Oct
25
2023
Settler Colonialism and the Question of Palestine
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Nadia Abu El-Haj will speak to the historical context around current events in the Middle East while discussing whether there...
Oct
25
2023
Wahhābism: The History of a Militant Islamic Movement: A Book Discussion with Cole Bunzel
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, sponsored by Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA)
Join ISITA for a talk by Cole M. Bunzel about his recent book, Wahhābism: The History of a Militant Islamic...
Oct
23
2023
MENA MONDAYS | NEW DIRECTIONS | Queer Palestine & the Empire of Critique
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Sa'ed Atshan of Swarthmore College with discuss his book Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique. Lunch will be served at...
Oct
20
2023
Palestine and Israel 101: What is the conflict about?
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Prof. Wendy Pearlman will provide a historical overiew of the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its major milestones, actors,...
Oct
17
2023
MENA | Revolutionary Defeat & the Future of Struggle
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Syrian Writer and Former Political Prisoner Yassin al-Haj Saleh in Conversation with Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern University) and Danny Postel (New...
Oct
16
2023
MENA MONDAY | Torture as Power: Political Relations in "Assad's Syria"
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Yassin al-Haj Saleh, intellectual & writer, with discussant Sara Kayyali, Northwestern University. In this talk, Yassin al-Haj Saleh considers how torture...
Oct
2
2023
MENA MONDAYS | Virtual Roundtable | Pasts and Futures of MENA Gender Studies
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Beth Baron, City College CUNY; Maya Mikdashi, Rutgers University; Mejdulene Shomali, University of Maryland Baltimore County; moderated by Jessica Winegar,...
May
22
2023
MENA Mondays: Book Talk: Sentient Flesh
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
In Sentient Flesh R. A. Judy takes up freedman Tom Windham’s 1937 remark “we should have our liberty 'cause ....
May
15
2023
MENA Mondays: FACULTY COLLOQUIUM , Thadeus Dowad | Ottoman Portraiture between Revolution and Empire: Kapıdağlı Paints Selim III
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
This faculty colloquium will be a manuscript workshop for an upcoming article adapted from a chapter of Thadeus Dowad's dissertation,...
May
8
2023
MENA Mondays: New Directions in Middle East and North African Studies: States of Subsistence
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
The Spring Quarter 2023 New Directions in Middle East and North African Studies talk will be given by José Ciro...
May
4
2023
MENA | SESP | Education and the Cultural Cold War in the Middle East
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
This book talk is co-presented by MENA and SESP. Lunch will be served at the event. The event is hybrid,...
May
1
2023
MENA Mondays: Bringing Turkish Literature in English: Translating Murathan Mungan's Valor
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Winner of the 2021 Global Humanities Translation Prize Among Murathan Mungan’s signature works, Cenk Hikâyeleri (Valor: Stories) has long been considered...
Apr
24
2023
MENA Mondays: Book Talk: Iran in Motion
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Completed in 1938, the Trans-Iranian Railway connected the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf. Drawing on newspapers, industry publications, travelogues,...
Apr
17
2023
Anthropology Colloquium: Lara Deeb, Scripps College
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Anthropology Colloquia and Events
“What Will People Say? Love Across Difference in Lebanon” Intersectarian and interreligious marriages often provoke strong opposition from Lebanese of all...
Apr
17
2023
MENA Mondays: ROUNDTABLE | Trauma and Its Afterlives in the MENA Region
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Zoom: register at bit.ly/MENA_4_17 Orkideh Behrouzan, SOAS University of London; Nora Parr, University of Birmingham; Lara Sheehi, George Washington University; moderated...
Apr
11
2023
Zeina Hashem Beck: Reading and Conversation
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Join MENA and Creative Writing for an evening with acclaimed poet Zeina Hashem Beck! Reception followed by poetry reading. Zeina Hashem Beck...
Apr
10
2023
MENA Mondays: Multilingual Poetics: A Reading and Conversation with Zeina Hashem Beck
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Middle East and North African Studies
Zeina Hashem Beck joins NU poets Fadia Antabli and George Abraham in conversation on the poetic process across English and...
Apr
10
2023
Fulbright Visiting Scholar Lecture: Large-Scale Social Engineering in Egypt
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM, sponsored by Buffett Institute for Global Affairs
As part of Northwestern University’s Fulbright Week, the Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs will host a lecture from Dr....
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....