Feb 6, 2020
Tony Stewart – Parody and Persuasion: Narrative Strategies of Bengali Sufi Fictions
5:00 – 6:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Lectures
Jan 27, 2020
Narges Bajoghli – Understanding Iran and the IRGC: Beyond the Headlines
5:45 – 7:15 p.m. True North (101), 280 Brook St.
Nov 21, 2019
Jennifer Derr – The Lived Nile
12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Room 015, 85 Waterman St. (Hunter Psychology Lab)
Nov 13, 2019
Greg Burris – Palestine in Black and White: Black-Palestinian Transnational Solidarity
12:00 – 1:45 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Nov 12, 2019
Nov 7, 2019
Book Talk | Gender, Governance and Islam
5:00 – 6:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Oct 29, 2019
Vivien Sansour – The Palestine Heirloom Seed Library | A Journey of Reclaiming Life in One of the World’s Centers of Diversity: Palestine
4:00 – 6:00 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Oct 22, 2019
Adeeb Khalid – The Uyghurs’ China Problem, or How We Got to the Political Re-Education Camps of Xinjiang
5:00 – 6:30 p.m. True North Classroom (101), 280 Brook St.
Oct 16, 2019
Shahzad Bashir – Imagining Time in Early Modern India: Persian Chroniclers and Their Interpreters
5:30 – 7:00 p.m. Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown St.
Oct 11, 2019
Ayşe Parla – Precarious Hope: Migration and the Limits of Belonging in Turkey
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. 112, Giddings House
128 Hope St.
Oct 9, 2019
Clare Davies – The Artist’s Map of Tehran, 1956-1966
5:30 – 7:00 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Oct 8, 2019
Nada Mustafa Ali & Khalid Mustafa Medani – New Voices from Sudan
5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Oct 1, 2019
Sep 20, 2019
Apr 29, 2019
Raef Zreik – Palestine as a Question
3:00 – 5:00 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Apr 25, 2019
Sadia Abbas (’02 PhD) – Why Write (Fiction)?
4:00 – 6:00 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Apr 17, 2019
Peter Green Lecture on the Modern Middle East with Niloofar Haeri – The Story of Moses and the Shepherd: Debating Non-Ritual Prayer in Iran
4:30 – 7:00 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Mar 13, 2019
Lecture + Dinner with Mona Abo-Zena – “It Must be That time of the Month.”: Muslim Girls Navigating Coming of Age and Cultural Stigma around Menstruation
6:30 – 8:30 p.m. the Brown Faculty Club, Portrait Room
1, Bannister St.
Mar 7, 2019
Peter Green Lecture on the Modern Middle East with Abbas Amanat – From the Safavid Revolution to the Islamic Republic of Iran: Shaping of a Longue Durée
4:30 – 7:00 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Mar 6, 2019
Lecture + Book Signing with Blair Imani – The Revolution Will Be Ours
6:30 – 8:30 p.m. 85 Waterman St. Room 130
Feb 26, 2019
Rosie Bsheer – Yemen’s Forgotten Wars
5:00 – 6:30 p.m. Room 101, Stephen Robert '62 Hall
280 Brook St.
Feb 14, 2019
Maya Mikdashi – Afterlives of a Census: Inheritance, History, and Biopower in Contemporary Lebanon
4:30 – 6:00 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Nov 28, 2018
Ahoo Najafian — Staging the Aborted Past: Scenes from Alternative Theater in Iran
5:45 – 7:15 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Oct 23, 2018
Alia Al-Senussi (’03 A.M. ’04) — The New Saudi Arabia: A Kingdom Embraces Soft Power
4:30 – 6:00 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Oct 15, 2018
Shenila Khoja-Moolji (’05 A.B.) — Forging the Ideal Educated Girl: The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia
12:00 – 1:45 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute