May 19–26, 2020
Report from Iran with Reese Erlich and Stephen Kinzer
2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Webcasts
Mar 11, 2020
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
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 19, 2018
Alireza Doostdar — Signs of Satan in Iran: Hollywood, Cosmopolitanism, Paranoia
4:30 – 6:00 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Jun 1–8, 2018
May 27, 2018
MES Commencement Diploma Ceremony 2018
2:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Apr 20–21, 2018