Past Events
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Mar 6Teach-In: US Empire & IranPyle Center, 121 Auditorium
Panelists: Monica Kim: US Empire Giuliana Chamedes: Fascism Daniel Williford: Middle East/Tech Alfred McCoy: War/Global Empire/CIA Others to Be Confirmed
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Mar 6Inheriting An Invented Tradition: Islamic Art in the Arabian PeninsulaMemorial Union, 800 Langdon Street
With Professor Jennifer Pruitt, Howard & Ellen Louise Schwartz Professor of Islamic Art & Architecture, UW–Madison
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Mar 4Film: “The Voice of Hind Rajab”Union South, 1308 W Dayton St, Madison, WI 53715
Winner of the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival and current nominee for Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards.
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Mar 2America’s Middle EastIngraham 206
Marc Lynch (George Washington University) details the United States’ disastrously failed approach to the post–Cold War Middle East, where aspirations for US leadership and a calm region have only produced war, instability and humanitarian catastrophe.
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Feb 27Gaza and the US Academy: Scholasticide and Educational Resilience in PalestineSewell Social Sciences Bldg., Room 8108
Abdel Razzaq Takriti (Rice University) is a historian of anticolonialism, revolutions, intellectual and political currents, and state formation in the modern Arab world
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Feb 25Moroccan Jews, American Jews, and French Decolonization in North Africa, 1945-1955Emma Kuby
Ingraham 206
After the Holocaust, American Jewish groups shifted aid from Europe to Jews in French North Africa—especially Morocco—funding relief programs and backing continued French rule, efforts met with mixed reactions from Moroccan Jews.
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Feb 24Children’s African Story Hour: “The Arabic Quilt”University Apartments Community Center, 611 Eagle Heights Dr.
Join us as we share award-winning children’s literature with food, music, & activities that celebrate the diversity of culture, art, and language across the African continent.
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Feb 23Fluid FrontiersIngraham 206
Seçil Binboğa (University of Minnesota) will discuss how US influence expanded through Turkey’s airspace between 1951 and 1954, crossing borders to counter the spread of communism.
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Feb 9Return of Tyranny: Why Counterrevolutions Emerge and SucceedIngraham 206
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?
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Feb 2Children’s International Story Hour: “These Olive Trees”Pinney Library, 516 Cottage Grove Rd., Madison, WI 53716
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, creating an art project based on the book, and sampling Palestinian cuisine! This is part of a series that introduces children’s literature that celebrates the …