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November 2020
Christopher Livanos: “Biblicist Bias in Qur’anic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Present”
Christopher Livanos University of Wisconsin, Madison Virtual lecture About the talk: Western Qur’ānic studies continue to be affected by prejudices that the Western academy inherited from ancient and medieval heresiologists due to the academy’s origins…
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Walid El Khachab: “Mystical Patriotism: Palestine and the Politics of the National Dress”
Walid El Khachab Arabic Studies, York University Virtual lecture About the talk: The production of the “virtual” nation of Palestine in film is associated with fabric artifacts, such as rugs and dresses, since the inception…
Find out more »Nilay Özok-Gündoğan: “A Gordian Knot in the Ottoman East: Kurdish Nobility, the Ottoman State, and the Question of Fiscal Autonomy in the Long Nineteenth Century”
Nilay Özok-Gündoğan Ottoman and Middle East History, Florida State University Virtual lecture About the talk: Kurdish principalities came under the Ottoman rule in the sixteenth century within the context of the Ottoman-Safavid imperial rivalry and…
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Marwa Shalaby “Female Political Representation under Authoritarianism in the Middle East and North Africa”
Marwa Shalaby Departments of Gender & Women Studies and Political Science UW-Madison About the talk: TBA About the presenter: Prior to joining the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Shalaby was the Fellow for the…
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Steven Brooke: “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…
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