Past Events
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Jan 13Children’s African Story Hour: “My Father’s Shop”Pinney Public Library, 516 Cottage Grove Rd, Madison, WI 53716
We will be reading the book to the children, introducing basic Arabic words, teaching basic facts about Morocco, creating an art project based on the book, and sampling Moroccan cuisine!
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Dec 7International Children’s Literature Event: Stories of Separation and Belonging: Exploring Migration, Partition and DisplacementMadison Concourse Hotel
Join us for an in-person daylong workshop for K-12 pre-service and current educators, librarians, and children’s literature enthusiasts
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Dec 4Navigating Childhood and Conflict in “The Cat at the Wall”Online via Zoom
"Cat at the Wall" is a thought-provoking novel that invites middle school students to delve into themes of empathy, conflict, and cultural understanding through the eyes of a cat observing life in the war-torn environment of the Occupied West Bank. The story encourages discussions about perspectives and the ultimate impact of war on individuals and communities.
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Nov 25Children’s African Story Hour: Egyptian LullabyGoodman South Library, 2222 S Park St., Madison, WI 53713
We are thrilled to be partnering with the African Studies Program here at UW-Madison to present a children’s book entitled "Egyptian Lullaby" by Zeena M. Pliska (Author) and Hatem Aly (Illustrator).
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Nov 11Children’s African Story Hour: Egyptian Lullaby
Pinney Library, 516 Cottage Grove Rd., Madison, WI 53716
We are thrilled to be partnering with the African Studies Program here at UW-Madison to present a children’s book entitled "Egyptian Lullaby" by Zeena M. Pliska (Author) and Hatem Aly (Illustrator).
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Nov 7Reinventing Islamic Architecture in the 20th and 21st CenturiesEleven scholars from the U.S. and abroad will present papers that investigate the phenomenon of 20th- and 21st-century architecture making references to pre-modern Islamic monuments and built environments.
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Nov 4Arab Brazil: Ternary Orientalism and the Question of South-South ComparisonIngraham 206
Waïl S. Hassan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) will discuss how the Arab world in Brazil works paradoxically as a site of otherness (different language, culture, and religion) and solidarity (with cultural, historical, demographic, and geopolitical ties).
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Oct 21Subaltern Intellectuals in Muslim Africa: Slavery, Artisanship, and Transregional Networks of Knowledge and MigrationIngraham 206
Khaled Esseissah (UW-Madison) is an assistant professor and a historian of Islam, colonialism, slavery, race, and gender, with a focus on nineteenth- and twentieth-century West Africa.
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Oct 16Revolution Squared: Tahrir, Political Possibilities, and Counterrevolution in Egypt206 Ingraham Hall
Atef Said presents few key threads from his book Revolution Squared (Duke U Press 2024) about the Egyptian Uprising of 2011 and the military counter-revolution in its aftermath.
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Oct 2Gaza Apocalypse: Causes and ConsequencesMouin Rabbani, researcher & commentator
Online via Zoom
Mouin Rabbani is a researcher, analyst, and commentator specializing in Palestinian affairs, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the contemporary Middle East.