Events
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Dec 2Writing and Filming Queer North African StoriesAbdellah Taïa
1155 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706, 206 Ingraham Hall
Through his writing and filmmaking, Taïa challenges dominant representations of gender, sexuality, migration, and North African experience while opening space for other ways of imagining identity, intimacy, and belonging.
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Jan 25The Arab of the Future: Reading (critically) the Work and its AcclaimProfessor Carla Calargé
In this workshop, Professor Carla Calargé of Florida Atlantic University will lead group activities exploring how culture shapes the way we see others. She will discuss Riad Sattouf’s graphic memoir L’Arabe du futur, which recounts his childhood in France, Libya, and Syria, and explores questions of identity, politics, and belonging. The talk will also examine …
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Feb 22To Exist as a Problem: Being Black, Being PalestinianZahi Zalloua
Ingraham 206
Drawing on W. E. B. Du Bois's question, "How does it feel to be a problem?", Professor Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College) examines the shared experiences of Black and Palestinian people as groups racialized as threats. He argues that anti-Blackness and anti-Palestinian racism are foundational to systems of white and settler dominance, casting Black people as criminals and Palestinians as terrorists to justify oppression.
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Mar 15Children’s International Story Hour: “These Olive Trees”Imagination Center Library, 1814 Parkside Dr Madison, WI 53704
We are excited to present the children’s book: These Olive Trees by Aya Ghanameh (Author, Illustrator). We will be reading the book to children, introducing basic Arabic words, teaching basic facts about Palestine, and creating an art project based on the book! This is part of a series that introduces children’s literature that celebrates the diversity of art, culture, food, …
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Mar 29The Revolution Within: Islamic Media and the Struggle for a New EgyptYasmin Moll
Ingraham 206
Yasmin Moll is an assistant professor of anthropology at University of Michigan. She is an anthropologist of religion and media with a focus on the Middle East as well as a practicing visual ethnographer.
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Apr 14Sharing Jerusalem: Urban Mixing and Its Limits in a Late Ottoman CityMichelle Campos
Michelle Campos is a scholar of 19th- and early 20th-century Jewish Studies and Middle Eastern history whose work focuses on three overlapping fields: the history of Palestine and Israel; the late Ottoman Empire and the making of the modern Middle East; and Sephardic Jewish studies.
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Apr 23The Annual Middle East Studies Conference: Technology, Media and Power in the Middle EastSave the date for our annual conference! This will be a one-day, in-person gathering that will bring together scholars from across disciplines to examine how technological and media infrastructures shape political power, cultural production, and social life in the Middle East.
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May 24Children’s International Story Hour: “Salma the Syrian Chef”Pinney Library, 516 Cottage Grove Rd., Madison, WI 53716
We are excited to present the children’s book: Salma the Syrian Chef by Danny Ramadan (Author), Anna Bron (Illustrator). We will be reading the book to children, introducing basic Arabic words, teaching basic facts about Palestine, and creating an art project based on the book! This is part of a series that introduces children’s literature that celebrates the diversity of art, culture, …