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
Lectures
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
Sep 21, 2018
Asli Zengin — The Afterlife of Gender: Sovereignty, Intimacy, and Transgender Funerals in Turkey
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Giddings House 212
Sep 19, 2018
Alireza Doostdar — Signs of Satan in Iran: Hollywood, Cosmopolitanism, Paranoia
4:30 – 6:00 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Apr 17, 2018
Khaled Fahmy – Open Up a Few Corpses: Dissection, Shari'a and Justice in Modern Egypt
Peter Green Lecture on the Modern Middle East
12 p.m. – 2 p.m. The Brown Faculty Club
Mar 12, 2018
Rana Dajani – Five Scarves: Doing the Impossible—If We Can Reverse Cell Fate, Why Can’t We Redefine Success for Women?
4:00 – 5:30 p.m. Metcalf Research Building, Room 101, Friedman Auditorium, 190 Thayer Street
Feb 21, 2018
Marwa M. Shalaby – Female Political Representation under Authoritarianism
Marwa M. Shalaby – Female Political Representation under Authoritarianism
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Feb 14, 2018
Rochelle Davis – Iraqis Displaced by ISIS: A Mixed Methods Study of Displacement and Durable Solutions
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Feb 5, 2018
Aisha Ahmad – Jihad & Co.: Black Markets and Islamist Power
4 p.m. – 6 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Nov 14, 2017
Nov 13, 2017
Lecture | New Models of Patronage within Arts and Culture: Focus on the Gulf Cooperation Council
4:30pm – 6pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Nov 8, 2017
Lecture | Desert Melody: Female Love Songs of the Bedouin Desert
5:30pm – 7pm Maddock Alumni Center, Brian Room, 38 Brown Street
Oct 16, 2017
Lecture | Digital Approaches to Ancient Literacy: The Case of Safaitic
12pm – 1:30pm Joukowsky Forum
Sep 28, 2017
Sep 26, 2017
Lecture + Book Talk | Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean: A Social History
5:15pm – 7pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Apr 5, 2017
Apr 4, 2017
Apr 3, 2017
Mar 17, 2017
Lecture | Stacey Philbrick Yadav - Horizons of Conflict and Reconstruction in Yemen
12pm – 1:45pm Joukowsky Forum
Feb 16, 2017
Lecture + Book Talk | The Singing Turk: Ottoman Power and Operatic Emotions on the European Stage from the Siege of Vienna to the Age of Napoleon
12pm – 2pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Feb 15, 2017
The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire
12pm – 2pm Joukowsky Forum
Feb 13, 2017
Peter Green Lecture with Suad Joseph | State of the Family and the Family of the State: Critical Arab Family Studies
12pm – 2pm Brown Faculty Club
Oct 19, 2016
Lecture + Book Signing | "The Battle for Algeria: Sovereignty, Health Care, and Humanitarianism”
12pm – 1:30pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St. Providence, RI 02906
Oct 5, 2016
Book Reading & Lecture | Elias Muhanna, “Translating a Classical Arabic Encyclopedia”
Elias Muhanna, Manning assistant professor of comparative literature, “Translating a Classical Arabic Encyclopedia” talk and book launch.
12pm – 1pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer St. Providence, RI 02906
Sep 29, 2016
Book Talk | Adventures in Field-Building: On the History of Area Studies/MES in the USA/Zachary Lockman NYU
12pm – 2pm Brown Faculty Club, One Magee Street Providence, RI 02912 United States