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October 2021
Introduction to Islam
UW-Madison Students are invited to 336 Ingraham Hall Tuesday, October 26, 6-7:15pm Join the Center for Religion and Global Citizenry’s Interfaith Fellows for an introductory lecture on Islam by Rohany Nayan Ph.D. This 45 minute…
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Arab Fairy Tale Feasts: A Delicious Way to Explore Arab Culture, with author Karim Alrawi
Register We are excited to virtually host the renowned author, playwright, and educator Karim Alrawi on November 8th, and to celebrate the publication of his new children's book: Arab Fairy Tale Feasts, A Literary Cookbook.…
Find out more »First Graders – Iranian Movie Screening at UW Cinematheque
In November, we are pleased to present a restored DCP of Abbas Kiarostami’s marvelous non-fiction portrait of Tehran school boys, First Graders (1984). Often overlooked in the shadow of the more widely-shown Homework (1989), First Graders is the first of Kiarostami’s…
Find out more »Gendering Protest and Revolutionary Moments: the significance of body politics in the Middle East, with Nadje Al-Ali (Brown University)
Register This talk will address gender as a central analytical concept in understanding contemporary processes and developments in the Middle East, and ask what feminist scholarship has contributed to our understanding of developments in the…
Find out more »December 2021
Chess of The Wind – Iranian Movie Screening at UW Cinematheque
CHESS OF THE WIND (SHATRANJ-E BAAD) Iran | 1976 | DCP | 93 min. | Farsi with English subtitles Director: Mohammad Reza Aslani Cast: Fakhri Khorvash, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Shahram Golchin A major rediscovery, this beautifully restored landmark of pre-revolution Iranian cinema was banned after a…
Find out more »Queer-Jewish-Muslim: Constructing Hyphenated Religious Identities through Tactics of Intersubjectivity, with Katrina Daly Thompson (UW-Madison)
Register Like normative conceptions of binary sex and gender, scholars and laypeople alike often treat religious identities as bounded categories: one must either be male or female, a man or a woman, and, if religious,…
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Nov
08
Arab Fairy Tale Feasts: A Delicious Way to Explore Arab Culture, with author Karim Alrawi
November 8 @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Nov
22
Dec
06
Arab Fairy Tale Feasts: A Delicious Way to Explore Arab Culture, with author Karim Alrawi