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20 Oct 2021

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Gender Differences in Approaches to Pandemics in the MENA Region

Wednesday, October 20, 2021 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Online
Sponsored By: 
University of Michigan’s International Institute and the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

*Promoted by the University of Pittsburgh*

Speaker: Ambreen Kazi Kamran

20 Oct 2021

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Gender Differences in Approaches to Pandemics in the MENA Region

Wednesday, October 20, 2021 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Online
Sponsored By: 
University of Michigan’s International Institute and the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

*Announced by the University of Pittsburgh*

Featuring Ambreen Kazi Kamran, Assistant Professor, Princess Nora bent Abdallah Women Health Research Chair; Dept. of Family & Community Medicine, College of Medicine King Saud University.

21 Oct 2021

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Turkish and Iranian Response to Refugees from Afghanistan

Thursday, October 21, 2021 - 12:00pm
Online
Sponsored By: 
New York University’s Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, Ottoman and Turkish Studies, and Iranian Studies Initiative

*Promoted by University of Pittsburgh*

21 Oct 2021

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Community in the Time of Corona

Thursday, October 21, 2021 - 3:00pm
online

*promoted by the University of Pittsburgh*

A year and a half into COVID-19 pandemic, we have published new reports and explored with partners certain trends in regards to important aspects of pandemic life, including vaccine uptake and hesitancies, masking habits, mental health, and more, among American Muslim communities. This webinar will discuss these trends and findings with experts in the health and research fields.

Webinar panelists:

21 Oct 2021

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Social Change and Contentious Politics in the Middle East

Thursday, October 21, 2021 - 4:00pm
Online
Sponsored By: 
Middle East Center at the University of Pennsylvania

*Promoted by the University of Pittsburgh*

26 Oct 2021

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Contesting Islam, Constructing Race & Sexuality

Wednesday, October 27, 2021 (All day)
Online

*Promoted by the University of Pittsburgh*

This title will be available starting October 27 on our virtual platform.

Set over the course of a tense day at an isolated boarding school, this moral drama follows a boy’s desperate fight to save his sick friend in the face of a rigid bureaucracy.

27 Oct 2021

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At the Cutting Edge of Atrocity Prevention: Law, Technology, and Journalism in Myanmar

Wednesday, October 27, 2021 - 9:00am to 11:00am

The February 1 military coup in Myanmar has challenged
international law and the global institutions tasked with
protecting civilians and preventing mass atrocities. What
started as a short-term crisis has turned into an ongoing
conflict that has exacerbated existing concerns of atrocities
targeting ethnic minorities. The current abuses by the
Tatmadaw have raised concerns around the role that
international law and technology have played in failing to
prevent or even facilitating the military?s actions. At the

27 Oct 2021

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Post Colonial Interstate Relations in the Nile Basin

Wednesday, October 27, 2021 - 11:00am
Online
Sponsored By: 
UCLA

*Promoted by the University of Pittsburgh*

UCLA is hosting a webinar series on the crisis around Ethiopia's new Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. While Ethiopia has begun to fill the Dam, tensions have emerged with Egypt and Sudan. This part of the series features Dr. Marina Ottaway, Middle East Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center.

27 Oct 2021

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Orientalism Webinar

Wednesday, October 27, 2021 - 8:00pm
Online

*Promoted by the University of Pittsburgh*

The speaker of the week will be Dr. Hatem Bazian, Director of Islamophobia Research & Documentation Project, University of California, Berkeley, also the author of “Palestine,” on Wednesday, Oct 27, at 08:00PM (Turkey Time; UTC+03:00). His talk is titled "An Assessment and the Challenges in the Islamophobia Studies Field."

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