University of Pittsburgh

Muslims in a Global Context is a semi-annual mini-course series for students, educators, and the broader community to learn from faculty experts and practitioners about issues of critical importance to the understanding of countries with significant Muslim populations. Each term the cluster of countries changes. In the past two years, three sections were offered covering Egypt and Northern African countries, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India and the Gulf States and Iran.

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.

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.

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.

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).