Facebook group: Madison Muslims Oasis
We are a group of Madison Muslims and friends who would like to reconnect with our spiritual roots through discussion & learning.
University of Wisconsin - Madison
We are a group of Madison Muslims and friends who would like to reconnect with our spiritual roots through discussion & learning.
A great part-time job opportunity!
Every Thursday this spring, hosted by Persian Lecturer Fatemeh Mirsharifi.
The WISLI Tuition Scholarship is open until March 15.
Jillian Schwedler (City University of New York) In the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the state’s political geography is incongruent with its geography of neoliberal investment. That is, large portions of the regime’s traditional East Bank tribal support base are located in areas outside of the major zones of urban investment, and they are deeply resentful …
Omnia Khalil (City University in New York) Since 2015, Cairo have been massively urbanely transformed according to a new urban agenda. My presentation would unpack these socio-economic transformation, and the transitions in Cairene lives. The Urban lives are shattered into spaces of territorialized spheres that are surveilled due to the political transformation post-2011 Revolution, and …
Lana Salman (Harvard University) A little over a decade after the Arab revolution, how have marginalized Tunisians claimed political space, at what level, and to which ends? What do these experiences of claiming political space show about democratic politics beyond the conventional procedural dimensions? And what, if anything, could these experiences add to our understanding …
Nancy Demerdash (Albion College) Many might argue that the prospects of a progressive politics and democratic governance that the 2011 Egyptian revolution sought to realize have completely vanished. Those revolutionary aspirations for social change, political justice, economic opportunity, or civic equality have disintegrated, for some, into disillusioned desperations. In turn, recent cultural discourse about Egypt’s …
Siobhan Shilton (University of Bristol) The revolutions that began to sweep across countries in North Africa and the Middle East in December 2010 – like other revolutions in diverse modern historical contexts – have often been articulated, internally and externally, in black and white terms of success or failure, liberation or constraint, for or against, …
Shereen Abounaga (Cairo University) In the last decade of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty first century women’s presence was conspicuous through the arts; terms like subjectivity formation and self-expression were not uncommon. With the advent of the sweeping protests in the MENA region, women could really carve a distinguished space …