Nov 13, 2020
Writing Queer / Queer Writing: Diasporic Dialogues between the Middle East and Brazil
12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Virtual event. Registration required.
Webcasts
Oct 30, 2020
Racialization and Racism in the Middle East: Historical Perspectives
1:30pm – 3pm A Peter Green Lecture on the Modern Middle East
Register here to attend the webinar
Lectures
Racialization and Racism in the Middle East and its Diasporas
Virtual Event
Oct 20, 2020
Gender, Protests and Political Change in Africa ─ Virtual Book Talk
12pm – 1:30pm Register here to join the webinar, or tune in to the talk live on Watson's youtube channel
Racialization and Racism in the Middle East and its Diasporas
Women and Gender
Sep 22, 2020
Emily Drumsta – Ways of Seeking: The Arabic Novel and the Poetics of Investigation
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Virtual event
Sep 15, 2020
Zahra Ali – Women and Gender in Iraq
5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Virtual Book Event
Webcast .Please click on this link to buy the book from the Brown Bookstore. The Bookstore is offering a 10% discount on event books using the code EVENT10.
May 19–26, 2020
Mar 11, 2020
Report from Iran with Reese Erlich and Stephen Kinzer
2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Mar 5, 2020
Rashid Khalidi – The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
5:30 – 7:00 p.m. True North (101), 280 Brook St.
Feb 26, 2020
Tarek El-Ariss – Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age
5:30 – 7:00 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Feb 7, 2020
Workshop – Gendered Approaches to Restitution: Labor, Migration, Structural Amnesia and Trauma
2:00 – 6:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
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.
Jan 28, 2020
Coup 53 Screening and Panel Discussion
6 p.m. – 9 p.m. (Doors open at 5:30 p.m.) Martinos Auditorium, Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, 154 Angell Street
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 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 7, 2019
Book Talk | Gender, Governance and Islam
5:00 – 6:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Watch on YouTube
Podcast: 'Gender, Governance, and Islam' with Nadje Al-Ali
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.
Watch on Youtube
Podcast: 'Repression and Surveillance for China's Uyghur Minority' with Adeeb Khalid
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.
May 26, 2019
MES Commencement Diploma Ceremony 2019
2:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
May 7–14, 2019
Mar 11, 2019
Chas Freeman ─ Order in Turmoil: Making Sense of Kaleidoscopic Change in the Middle East
4pm – 5:30pm McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
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.
Jan 29, 2019
Critical Conversations: Experiences of Incarceration in the United States and Syria
5:00 – 6:45 p.m. Room 101
Stephen Robert '62 Hall, Watson Institute
280 Brook Street, Providence, RI 02912
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