The Global Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh in collaboration with CERIS will lead a four-week study program in Jordan this summer. Through this amazing experience, high school teachers will enhance their ability to educate students about the Arab and Islamic world and become proficient in colloquial Arabic.
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Dr. Luke Peterson will speak on "The Settler Movement: History, Impacts, and Perceptions" at his lecture this Friday, February 7, 3:00 pm, in 4130 Posvar Hall. Sponsored by the Global Studies Center |
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Join us for an informal lunch and conversation about current events in Egypt. The lunch will be held in the Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh, in Room 1228 on the 12th floor. We will begin at noon. The meal and discussion will last about an hour. The lunch is open to public. Our speakers will be: Dr. Fatma El-Hamidi, Pitt Dept. of Economics |
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Medieval Arabic sources are replete with stories about Muslims traveling far and wide. The abundance of such examples tempts one to believe that these traveling individuals created and maintained the pan-Islamic cultural commonwealth. Yet the Islamic written legacy is so vast that drawing decisive conclusions that traveling was indeed as widespread as our sources suggest is hardly possible. |
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Microcredit (small loans to start small enterprises in the informal sector) has been praised in many quarters as a panacea for the poverty and patriarchy that poor women in Third World countries confront. Securing poor women access to credit, for enterprises in the small-scale agricultural sector and the urban informal sector is at the center of a significant chunk of “women and development” agendas today. |
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Global Cultural Studies Program at Point Park University as we screen the 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo classic, The Battle of Algiers. This film illustrates in excruciating detail the horrors of French colonialism in Algeria and the resistance movement that eventually succeeded in overthrowing it. Although it is a dramatization of these historic events, the film nonetheless brings to life the violence, hope, and struggles inherent to any decolonization process. The film is in Arabic and French with English subtitles. The Battle of Algiers continues our Fight Back! |
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Pitt's Muslim Student Association, co-hosting with Pitt's FORGE this year, is holding their 4th Annual Fast-A-Thon and the theme is HUMANITY. Come for the fasting experience, to learn about what's happening in different countries around the world, and to MAKE A DIFFERENCE. Sign up to fast with us for a day to promote awareness around campus and bring in clothes to help refugees in Syria. Come to the O' Hara Student Center ballroom on Friday, February 7th for a FREE, delicious meal to break our fast. |
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Approved by the Knesset in June of 2013, The Prawer-Begin Plan, if implemented, will see the destruction of over 40 unrecognized Palestinian Bedouin villages in the Naqab (Negev) desert. The Plan is the second step taken by the Israeli government to confiscate Palestinian land in the Naqab, after the "Negev 2015" plan in 2005 and the appointment of the Goldberg committee in 2007. |
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5pm Friday March 21 - 1:00 pm Sunday, March 23, 2014 Room 100, Porter Hall, Carnegie Mellon University |
