Nov 19, 2016 – Feb 5, 2017
Fatma Bucak | And men turned their faces from there
Bell Gallery and List Art Center Lobby
Arts
Nov 10, 2016
Film Screening | Ma’a al-Fidda (Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait)
6:30pm – 8:30pm Cable Car Cinema
Nov 9, 2016
Political Art & Satiric Expression: The Khartoon! Movement in Middle East Today
6pm – 7:30pm Wilson Hall, Room 302
75-91 Waterman Street
Nov 1, 2016
Turkish Film Series | Kasaba (The Small Town) 1998
“Us and Them: Across the Borders” MES film series on Displacement, presented by Prof. Pelin Kadercan and Kutay Onayli ’17 in partnership with BUFF (Brown Film Forum)
7pm – 9:30pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St. Providence, RI 02906
Oct 14, 2016
Arabic Calligraphy Workshop
12pm – 2pm MacMillan 115
Arabic
Arts
Arts & Social Change
Workshops, Conferences, Seminars
Oct 4, 2016
Turkish Film Series | Ruzgarin Hatiralari, 2015 (Memories of the Wind)
“Us and Them: Across the Borders” MES Turkish film series on Displacement, presented by Prof. Pelin Kadercan and Kutay Onayli ’17 in partnership with BUFF (Brown Film Forum)
7pm – 9:30pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St. Providence, RI 02906
Sep 20, 2016
Turkish Film Series Screening/ Gölgeler ve Suretler, 2010 (Shadows and Faces)
Original Title: Gölgeler ve Suretler (Shadows and Faces)
7pm – 9:30pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St. Providence, RI 02906
May 3–10, 2016
Contemporary art of Iran versus Cuba
Alumna Layla Heidari ’15 has been helping Roya Heidari in curating a number of art exhibits, the latest on the Contemporary art of Iran versus Cuba.
Rogue Space Chelsea, 508 West 26th St New York, NY 10001 United States
May 3, 2016
Apr 21, 2016
Film Screening: GRAMSCI44
Between 1926 and 1927, the Italian intellectual and Communist political figure Antonio Gramsci spent 44 days imprisoned on the island of Ustica, off the northern coast of Sicily.
6:30pm – 8:30pm Macmillan 117, 167 thayer street providence, RI 02912 United States
Apr 19, 2016
Film Screening and Talk “A Touch of Spice”
6:30pm – 8pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St. Providence, RI 02906
Apr 14, 2016
International Poetry Night
6pm – 8pm Smith-Buonanno Hall 106, 95 Cushing Street Providence, RI 02912 United States
Mar 23, 2016
Reading, Writing, Revolution: Educators in the Interwar Middle East
12pm – 1pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street Providence, RI United States
Mar 22, 2016
Film Screening: “Men on the Bridge” / Turkey
Men on the Bridge (2009) written and directed by Aslı Özge.
7pm – 9pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St. Providence, RI 02906
Mar 14, 2016
“Architecture of Exile. The Spatial Ordering of Palestinian Refugee Camps.”
Alessandro Petti is an architect and researcher in urbanism.
12pm – 1:30pm
Feb 24, 2016
Feb 2, 2016
Film Screening “A Separation” / Iran
“A Separation” (2011) directed by Asghar Farhadi 123 minutes.
Persian with English sub-titles.
7pm – 9pm
Dec 1, 2015
Nov 6, 2015
Nov 3, 2015
“From Forbidden Love to The Magnificent Century: Turkish Soap Operas in the Arab Middle East”
5pm – 6:30pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St. Providence, RI 02906
Oct 29, 2015
Garden of Love, Rumi’s Legacy of Poetry, Sufism and Music
7:30pm – 9pm Salomon 001, The College Green , Providence, RI 02912 United States + Google Map
Oct 28, 2015
Sep 25, 2015
Sep 23, 2015
Film Screening: “The Wanted 18 – directed by Amer Shomali and Paul Cowan
Middle East Studies film presented by Nicola Perugini, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Italian Studies and Middle East Studies.
7pm – 9pm
Sep 23, 2015
“Free Advice” Solo Performance – Farah Saleh
5:30pm – 7pm Granoff Center, 154 Angell St. Providence, + Google Map