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Due to public health concerns around COVID-19, all in-person lectures will take place online during the fall semester, until further notice.
Steven Brooke: “Mosques and Islamist Activism: Spatial Evidence from Interwar Cairo”
Egypt’s Struggle with the Role of Islam in Contemporary Society
Wisconsin Film Festival
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Free Screening of Arab-American High School Football Team Documentary
The Milwaukee Muslim Film Festival is showing Fordson: Faith, Fasting, Football, an award winning documentary from 2011. The film follows a predominately Arab-American high school football team from a working-class Detroit suburb as they practice …
The Return of the Gaze: On Modern Pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Melancholies of a Blessed View, with Prof. Avinoam Shalem, April 15, 2021
Please join the Medieval Studies Program on Thursday, April 15, 3pm, for their guest lecture with Professor Avinoam Shalem (colombia University). Click here to join on zoom. The lecture is part of the Borghesi-Mellon Interdisciplinary …
Watch two Iranian films at the Wisconsin Film Festival, May 13-20, 2021
The 2021 Wisconsin Film Festival, presented by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Communication Arts, will take place virtually from May 13, 2021 – May 20, 2021. The festival will present eight solid days of refreshing, …
Apply for the 2021 Jack Shaheen Scholarship! Due April 12, 2021
Apply for the Dr. Jack Shaheen Mass Communications Scholarship! The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is offering scholarships of $2,500 in honor of Dr. Jack G. Shaheen for Arab American students who excel in Media Studies. …
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…