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Jul25
Cases from Gaza: Etiologies and Interventions @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm First Unitarian Society, 900 University Bay Drive, Madison, WI
Hear from trauma surgeon Dr. Feroze Sidhwa about his recent experience working in a Gaza hospital.
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Jul25
The Ongoing Health Catastrophe in Gaza @ 7:00 pm - 8:15 pm Christ Presbyterian Church, 944 East Gorham Street, Madison
Hear from trauma surgeon Dr. Feroze Sidhwa about his recent experience working in a Gaza hospital.
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Oct06
Cross-Stitching the Scattered: Women's Literary Subjectivities @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm Ingraham 206
Professor Shereen Abouelnaga (Cairo University) looks at how women writers create their sense of self through stories that are often broken, layered, and full of contradictions. She uses cross-stitching—both as a real craft and a metaphor—to show how women piece together identity, memory, and voice across different times and places.
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Nov03
Sufi Conceptions of Love and Prayer in Rifaat’s "Distant View of a Minaret" @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm Ingraham 206
By looking at how Alifa Rifaat uses ideas of love and prayer from Sufism, Professor Elsayed shows how Rifaat sees faith not just as worship, but also as a way for women to better understand themselves.
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K.D. Thompson
Professor Thompson received an ASMEA (Association for the Study of Middle East and Africa) Research Grant of $2500 for “How to Be a Good Muslim in a Swahili Marriage: Gendering Marriage Advice through Writing and …
Aili Mari Tripp
Professor Tripp had an article accepted for publication by the International Journal of Feminist Politics on the “Instrumentalizing Women’s Rights in the United Arab Emirates.” Another piece, “Women Confronting Algerian Politics: Plus ça change,” was …
The 2026-2027 Fulbright U.S. Student Program competition
UW-Madison campus deadline is 10:00am CDT, Thursday, September 11, 2025.
International Winter School 2026: Call for Applications
The event will be held from 10 to 15 January 2026 in Doha, Qatar.
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Middle East Studies (MES) Certificate
The MES Certificate introduces undergraduate students to a multi-disciplinary course of study that provides them with an informed overview of the history, civilizations, religions, politics, geographies, and economic factors that shape the cultural landscape of this dynamic and often volatile region. It provides an in-depth training in a special area that may be particularly useful…