Middle East Studies Program

Events

• Dec

  18

  Children’s African Story Hour: “The Arabic Quilt” December 18, 2023 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Pinney Library, 516 Cottage Grove Rd., Madison, WI 53716
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  We will introduce basic Arabic words, a display of Egyptian artifacts, create an art project based on the book, and sample Egyptian cuisine!

• Feb

  26

  A Lecture with Jessica Barnes February 26, 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm Online via Zoom
  

  Dr. Barnes's research examines the culture and politics of resource use and environmental change. Her award-winning first book, Cultivating the Nile: The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt (Duke University Press, 2014) is an ethnographic study of water and the politics surrounding its use.

• Mar

  18

  Livability under Siege: Infrastructure's Everyday Worlds March 18, 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm Online via Zoom
  

  This talk draws on long term fieldwork for two book projects, one based in Palestine and the other based in Greece, to make the case for thinking about the strategies people use to mitigate besieging circumstances through questions about infrastructure.

• Apr

  12

  MESP Annual Conference: Environment and Climate Change in the Middle East April 12, 2024 @ 8:30 am - 5:15 pm Memorial Union, UW-Madison
  

  Hear academic experts across a variety of fields present new and cutting-edge work on this important issue.