Past Event Category: Sponsored by MESP
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Nov 30Biblicist Bias in Qur’anic Studies from the Middle Ages to the PresentThis presentation proposes models from within the Christian and Muslim traditions that can pave the way towards a break from Biblicist tropes towards an interfaith understanding based on the rich exegetical traditions of both faiths.
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Oct 12Embodying GeopoliticsBased on over a hundred extensive personal narratives from women of different generations in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon, Embodying Geopolitics traces women’s activism from national independence through to the Arab uprisings, arguing that activist women are critical geopolitical actors.
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Sep 14Arab Women’s Shifting Identities, Ongoing Activism(s) and Parallel StrugglesOnline via Zoom
Dr. Sahar Khamis of the University of Maryland discusses her co-edited book "Arab Women’s Activism and Socio-Political Transformation: Unfinished Gendered Revolutions" with Professor Marwa Shalaby.
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Mar 9Desert Melodies: Bedouin Women’s Oral Ghazal PoetryIngraham 206
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 Writing at Arizona State University.
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Mar 6HOMELAND inSECURITYNancy Nicholas Hall
Syrian artist and architect Mohamad Hafez will offer a very personal view of what it’s like for an upper-middle class Damascene family to become forced migrants – their lives before and after, decision points, forced hands, and adjustment to new realities.
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Mar 6International Conference: Refugees in/from the Middle EastPyle Center
This interdisciplinary conference brings together scholars from the social sciences and humanities who examine forced migration within the context of the Middle East. It is organized by Nevine El Nossery, the Director of the Middle East Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin and Nell Gabiam, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Political Science at Iowa State University.
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Feb 10Powering Empire: “How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global CarbonizationIngraham 206
Focusing on the flow of British carbon energy to the Middle East, On Barak excavates the historic nexus between coal and empire to reveal the political and military motives behind what is conventionally seen as a technological innovation.
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Jan 27The Salafi Mystique: The Rise of Gender Segregation in the 20th Century Middle EastIngraham 206
Drawing on two Egyptian Salafi magazines, alongside a variety of pamphlets and popularly-oriented works by Salafi and non-Salafi authors alike, he challenges the view that Salafis’ commitment to gender segregation is both longstanding and well-established. Instead, he shows how this practice arose in the 1970s out of a competition with the secular-nationalist project of State Feminism and the religio-political vision of the Muslim Brotherhood, respectively.
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Oct 28Desert in the Promised Land: The Politics and Semiotics of Space in Israeli CultureIngraham 206
Yael Zerubavel tells the story of the desert from the early twentieth century to the present, shedding light on romantic-mythical associations, settlement and security concerns, environmental sympathies, and the commodifying tourist gaze.
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Apr 8A Jewish history of Orientalism and its effect on hierarchies in IsraelIngraham 206
Aziza Khazzoom reviews her empirical work to specify the effects of westernization projects on Israeli subjectivity, hierarchies, and past and potential relationship to its Middle Eastern environment.