Ingraham 206 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Killian Clarke (Georgetown University) dives into the big question at the heart of his new book, "Return of Tyranny: Why Counterrevolutions Emerge and Succeed": why do some revolutions triumph while others collapse?
Past Events Category: MES Lecture Series
Palestine on Screen: Stories of Survival and Resistance
Memorial Library, Room 126 @ 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Join us for a powerful evening of award-winning Palestinian short films that bear witness to life under displacement, setller colonialism, and unyielding resilience.
Steadfast on Campus: A Century of Global Palestinian Student Activism
Online via Zoom @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
In this wide-ranging talk, Dr. Maha Nassar (University of Arizona) examines the transnational history of Palestinian student activism over the last century.
Society of the Righteous: Ibadhi Muslim Identity and Transnationalism in Tanzania
Ingraham 206 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Drawing from her new book "Society of the Righteous: Transregional Muslim Networks and Ibadhi Moral Reform in East Africa" (UNC Press, 2024), Dr. Kimberly Wortmann (Wake Forest University) will explore how Omani-Ibadi Muslims in Tanzania have navigated questions of religious belonging, moral reform, and heritage in the aftermath of empire.
Narrating the Margins: Mohamed Choukri’s Short Narratives
Ingraham 206 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Choukri blends harsh realism with creative storytelling, following Zola’s idea that literature should be rooted in real human experience. His stories reveal the difficult truths of poverty, oppression, and social exclusion, rejecting idealized portrayals.
Cross-Stitching the Scattered: Women’s Literary Subjectivities
Ingraham 206 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
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.
A Tale of Two Diasporas: The Iranian-Jewish Communities in the US and Israel
Ingraham 206 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Professor Lior Sternfeld (Penn State University) will discuss the making of the Iranian Jewish diaspora community in Israel and the US (especially in Southern California).
Projecting Anxiety: Lebanon, Africa, and the Diasporic Condition
Ingraham 206 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Ghenwa Hayek (University of Chicago) engages with critical contemporary scholarship in diaspora studies by using the Lebanese case to consider how the diaspora is imagined from within the homeland; and, further, how specific diasporic imaginaries and entanglements have been used to conceptualize national identity domestically.
The China-Morocco Relation: From Third World Internationalism to Strategic Hedging
Ingraham 336 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Zaynab El Bernoussi is an associate professor of political science at The Africa Institute specializing in dignity politics, international relations, and the international political economy.
Palestine and Arab-Israeli Peace
Ingraham 206 @ 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm
This presentation will cover Arab-Israeli peace initiatives and their impacts following the 1994 Oslo Accords. The focus will be on American-led peace initiatives under both the Trump and Biden administrations, with a discussion of projected American foreign policy under a second Trump term.
