Middle East Studies Program

Events

• Jul

  25

  Cases from Gaza: Etiologies and Interventions July 25, 2025 @ 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.

• Jul

  25

  The Ongoing Health Catastrophe in Gaza July 25, 2025 @ 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.

• Oct

  06

  Cross-Stitching the Scattered: Women's Literary Subjectivities October 6, 2025 @ 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.

• Nov

  03

  Sufi Conceptions of Love and Prayer in Rifaat’s "Distant View of a Minaret" November 3, 2025 @ 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.