CERIS hosts the annual Undergraduate Research Symposium to encourage undergraduate students to advance their research experience, specially on issues that impact Muslims in historical or contemporary contexts or Islamic thought, history, and theology. A broad range of topics are accepted. Topics beyond theology may be covered, such as politics, policies, social change, culture, art, economy and technology. Former topics have included Hindu-Muslim Tension in India, Palestinian Hip Hop, Jordan’s Reproductive Policies, etc.
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The Library and the Middle East Studies Center at the Ohio State University are co-hosting a film screening of “Nefertiti’s Daughters”, a documentary about women artists of the Egyptian Uprising. We will screen the film in the Library on February 25th, 2016 at 4:00 EST. We need a scholar to conduct Q&A from 4:40 to 5:30 EST. We will use video conference technology for interaction with the audience. If you or someone you recommend could potentially conduct the Q&A, please let me know by Friday, January 29th We will offer a modest honorarium. |
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THE ISLAMIC CENTER OF PITTSBURGH AND CONFLICT KITCHEN PRESENT: MUSLIM SOLIDARITY POTLUCK Over 250 people from all walks of life came to meet members of the local Muslim community and learn about the Muslim experience in Pittsburgh. Approximately 80% of the people in attendance had never been to the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh before. |
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Mohammed Bamyeh is currently a professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh and the editor of International Sociology Reviews (ISR). He served most recently as the lead author of the first comprehensive report on social sciences in the Arab World. His books include Intellectuals and Civil Society in the Middle East (2012); Anarchy as Order (2009); Of Death and Dominion (2007); The Ends of Globalization (2000); The Social Origins of Islam (1999). He has also edited Palestine America (2003); and Literature and Revolution (2012). |
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World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh - Panel Discussion Understanding Islam: Voices from Pittsburgh Safdar Khwaja, Chapter President, Council on American-Islamic Relations Wasi Mohamed, Executive Director, Islamic Center of Pittsburgh Moderated by Paul Guggenheimer, Host of Essential Pittsburgh, 90.5 WESA Wednesday, February 10, 2016 Community Broadcast Center, 67 Bedford Square, Pittsburgh, PA 15203 |
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America's Unofficial Ambassadors is a DC-based non-profit, seeking to promote citizen diplomacy and increase the number of Americans who volunteer in the Muslim World. THeir programs are geared towards students, with Semester Abroad and Summer Service Internship opportunities in Morocco, Zanzibar, Tajikistan, and Indonesia. Through their programs, students are placed in an internship with a school or an NGO specializing in areas of human development. |
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he Women’s Institute at Chatham presents The Raizman Lecture featuring Jenny Nordberg, award-winning author of The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan. |
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Duquesne University’s Consortium for Christian–Muslim Dialogue invites you to its 2016 Symposium on Inter-religious Dialogue, a panel discussion by David Harris-Gershon, Haider Ala Hamoudi, and Mark Haas, moderated by Luke Peterson. The event is free, open to the general public, and streamed live. |
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