Lecture/Forum

28 Feb 2024

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Book Talk: My Brother My Land: A Story of Palestine

Wednesday, February 28, 2024 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
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Sponsored By: 
Global Studies Center

Sami Hermez is an anthropologist who teaches at Northwestern University in Qatar. He is the author of War Is Coming: Between Past and Future Violence in Lebanon (2017). His work in and out of the classroom reflects a strong commitment to freedom, justice, and equality. His family's history of migration spans the Levant, with roots in Al-Qosh, Aleppo, Beirut, and Jerusalem. Sami was a visiting professor of Contemporary and International Issues, at the University of Pittsburgh in 2012- 2013. He is a great speaker and intellect!

Contact: 
Elaine Linn eel58@pitt.edu

08 Dec 2023

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Palestine Teach Inn Series

Friday, December 8, 2023 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Hybrid
Sponsored By: 
Rutgers University

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

Rutgers University's Center for Security, Race and Rights presents Palestine Teach in Series
Dec 8 12 PM Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Territories

A discussion lead by Dr. Zachary Foster, Center for Security, Race and Rights Senior Fellow (Princeton University PhD, Middle East History)

Register: https://go.rutgers.edu/palestineteachin

29 Nov 2023

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Palestinian Music in Exile: A Virtual Book Talk with Louis Brehony

Wednesday, November 29, 2023 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
online
Sponsored By: 
American University in Cario

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

On the occasion of the "International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People" join us for a virtual book discussion of "Palestinian Music in Exile: Voices of Resistance" with author and activist, Louis Brehony, and in conversation with Dr. Tahrir Hamdi, professor of Decolonial Studies at Arab Open University, Jordan.

29 Nov 2023

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Ruling Islamists and Ethnic Minorities

Wednesday, November 29, 2023 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm
online
Sponsored By: 
George Mason University

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh.

07 Nov 2023

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Palestine and the Limits of the Law

Tuesday, November 7, 2023 - 5:30pm to 6:00pm
online
Sponsored By: 
Georgetown University Qatar, ACMCU, and the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS)

A discussion on "Palestine and the Limits of the Law," GU-Q Senior Visiting Fellow Professor Wadie Said, moderated by Professor Abdullah Al-Arian, Georgetown University

20 Oct 2023

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Israel Gaza War: A conversation with Peter Beinart

Friday, October 20, 2023 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Hybrid
Sponsored By: 
ACMCU, the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, and the Georgetown University MENA Forum

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

ACMCU, the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, and the Georgetown University MENA Forum invite you to a conversation with journalist and author Peter Beinart:

Contact: 
ACMCU ICC 260, SFS, Georgetown University 37th & O Streets, NW Washington, DC 20057

12 Oct 2023

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Whatever Happened to Ottoman Autonomy? Imperial Confrontation, Archival Dissonance, Epistemic Erasure

Thursday, October 12, 2023 - 12:15pm to 1:30pm
online
Sponsored By: 
The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for Humanities, Columbia University

announced by the University of Pittsburgh

Lecture by Youssef Ben Ismail
Chaired by Samuel K. Roberts

18 Oct 2023

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Book Talk | Creative Insecurity: Institutional Inertia and Youth Potential in the GCC

Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
online
Sponsored By: 
The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

The Middle East is experiencing the world's most prominent youth bulge. Yet many MENA economies' institutional designs, both formal and informal, favor the power of business elites, systematically discriminating against young people joining the workforce or opening businesses, and thus limiting their ability to contribute to innovation. Dania Thafer examines the issue of large youth populations and analyzes opportunities for Gulf states to reap their "demographic dividend.”

04 Oct 2023

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Writing Away From Home: In-Conversation with Rania Mamoun & Leila Aboulela

Wednesday, October 4, 2023 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Sponsored By: 
City of Asylum

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

This program presents a conversation between two female Sudanese writers, Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela and City of Asylum writer-in-residence Rania Mamoun. These two remarkable women will discuss the breadth of their work through multiple genres, and discuss their experiences living away from Sudan and how being away from home has influenced their work.

Contact: 
City of Asylum <info@cityofasylumpittsburgh.org>

13 Oct 2023

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https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/creees/events/touched-thaw-soviet-jews-between-stalins-death-and-1967-war-middle-east

Friday, October 13, 2023 - 3:00pm to 4:45pm
246A Baker Hall
Sponsored By: 
CMU

Gennady Estraikh, New York University

Touched by the "Thaw: Soviet Jews between Stalin's Death and the 1967 War in the Middle East

Contact: 
Wendy Goldman goldman@andrew.cmu.edu

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