May 26, 2019
MES Commencement Diploma Ceremony 2019
2:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
111 Thayer St.
Webcasts
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
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
Apr 3, 2018
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 9, 2018
Shahzad Bashir – India as a Sufi Timespace in the work of Jamali of Delhi
2 p.m. – 4 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 10, 2017
Conference | Middle East Toxic Wars
9am – 5pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Nov 8, 2017
Luncheon Seminar | Time Interrupted: Islamic Lives of a Historiographical Seduction
12pm – 1pm McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute
Nov 4, 2017
Symposium | "Afterlives of Witnessing: Moving Images from the Levant and the Political Imagination"
9:15am – 4:30pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Oct 16, 2017
Lecture | Digital Approaches to Ancient Literacy: The Case of Safaitic
12pm – 1:30pm Joukowsky Forum
Sep 26, 2017
Lecture + Book Talk | Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean: A Social History
5:15pm – 7pm Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute
Watch on Youtube
Podcast: Family, Sharia Law, and the Making of the Modern Middle East