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January 2020
MES Lecture: “The Salafi Mystique: The Rise of Gender Segregation in the 20th Century Middle East “
Aaron Rock-Singer (History, UW-Madison). About the talk: In this lecture, I trace the emergence of gender segregation within Salafism, Islam’s fastest growing movement. To do so, I focus on Egypt, examining the interaction between Salafism’s…
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On Barak: “Powering Empire: “How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global Carbonization”
“Powering Empire: How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global Carbonization” On Barak, Tel Aviv University About the talk: The Age of Empire was driven by coal, and the Middle East—as an idea—was…
Find out more »MES Lecture: “Powering Empire: “How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global Carbonization”
On Barak, Tel Aviv University. About the talk: The Age of Empire was driven by coal, and the Middle East—as an idea—was made by coal. Coal’s imperial infrastructure presaged the geopolitics of oil that…
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MES Lecture: “Desert Melodies: Bedouin Women’s Oral Ghazal Poetrys”
Miral Al-Tahawy, Arizona State University. About the presenter: Miral Mahgoub al-Tahawy is an associate professor of Modern Arabic literature, an award-winning Egyptian novelist and short story writer, and an affiliated member of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative…
Find out more »MES Lecture: “Mosques and Islamist Activism: Spatial Evidence from Interwar Cairo”
Steven Brooke (Political Science, UW-Madison). About the talk: Why do Islamists mobilize in some mosques, but not others? We answer this question by matching a list of mosque-based lectures, sermons, and collections carried out by…
Find out more »April 2020
MES Lecture: “Partial wholes: descriptions of early modern Africa (Leo Africanus, Ramusio, Mármol)”
Steven Hutchison (Spanish and Portuguese, UW-Madison). About the talk: This presentation would look at how Africa, known and unknown, was “described” both in cartography and geographies of that era. About the presenter: Steven Hutchinson…
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