In the past few years, Islamophobia Studies has experienced the arrival of numerous new scholars, researchers, community organizers, journalist and social media contributors to the field. The field has been enriched and challenged by this rapid expansion. Each contributor to the field has set out to provide a working definition for Islamophobia, selection of an academic and research methodology and collecting relevant data to qualify their thesis.
World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh | Point Park University
Join us on Thursday, November 2 at 6:00 p.m. for a free film screening of the National Geographic documentary “Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS.”
108 Center for Media Innovation
(corner of Wood Street and Third Avenue)
Point Park University
UPAC, The Department of African American Studies, Africana Research Center, African Studies Program, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of English, Department of History, Department of Sociology, Egyptian Student Association & more!
Join the Global Studies Center at The Pennsylvania State University for a weekend of free events with Bassem Youssef. On Friday we will enjoy the comedy stylings of Youssef in his "The Joke is Mightier Than The Sword" and on Saturday we will watch an exclusive film Screening of "Tickling Giants" followed by discussion with Youssef and the film's director Sara Taksler. A reception will follow. Please not that this event is free to the public and first come first serve. Get ready for some laughs!
University of Pittsburgh Global Studies Center, Political Science Department & CMU's Office of the Provost, Division of Student Affairs
This one-credit mini-course is part of a series organized by regions around the world based on their role on the world stage, their importance within the Muslim world, and the critical influence they play in the global community. The series seeks to illuminate the various perspectives of the Muslim community around the world.
Contact:
Veronica Dristas Assistant Director of Outreach Global Studies Center University Center for International Studies (UCIS) University of Pittsburgh 4101 Wesley W. Posvar Hall Pittsburgh, PA 15260 dristas@pitt.edu 412 624-2918 / 412 624-2918
Mariah Idrissi is an international model and public speaker promoting modest fashion and female empowerment. She has been interviewed by national and international news and radio stations such as CNN, BBC and Al Jazeera. She has also been featured in high fashion magazines worldwide such as Marie Claire, Teen Vogue and Grazia.
Mariah will be giving a talk on representation and changing the face of fashion. All are welcome and there will be food!
This year's Global Issues Through Literature series, a reading group designed for K-12 educators to learn and use new texts in the classroom, will travel the world through the eyes of authors writing under authoritarianism to try to understand the role of literature as document, commentator, and critic of restrictive regimes.
World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh in partnership with The Iran Project
Ambassador Thomas Pickering served more than four decades as a U.S. diplomat. He last served as under secretary of state for political affairs, the third highest post in the U.S. State Department. Pickering also served as ambassador to the United Nations, the Russian Federation, India, Israel, and Jordan, and holds the personal rank of Career Ambassador. The Ambassador will speak on the current threats to the Iran deal and their possible outcomes in addition to how the current administration is affecting U.S. Middle East policy.
University of Pittsburgh Students for Justice in Palestine
Abdel Salam Shehada, A Palestinian filmmaker from Rafah, Gaza will join us to screen and discuss his very moving and personal film "To My Father". He looks at the changing role and meaning of photography in the lives of people in Gaza in his lifetime, especially since the Israeli occupation began in 1967. Shehada has been making documentary films for over thirty years and his work has been screened at film festivals around the world.
The film will be followed by questions and discussion.
Islamic Art and Modernism are both terms which have been written about, discussed, and mentioned as a period of style extensively- yet both terms remain fluid. This study by Kaz Rahman takes a new look at how we position Islamic Art- how it in fact embodies, exemplifies and invents many aspects of Modernism in Painting and Architecture and how it relates to Film.
Join Kaz Rahman for a discussion of his new book "Islamic Art and Modernism" right at Pittsburgh's Few of a Kind Store. Be sure not to miss Rahman, a director, artist, and author, discuss his latest work!
