November 13, 2015 12pm – 1:45pm
Peter Green Lecture on the Modern Middle East with Engin Deniz Akarli, Professor of History, Istanbul Şehir University, and Professor Emeritus, Brown University.
March 7, 2019 4:30 – 7:00 p.m.
Abbas Amanat is William Graham Sumner Professor of History at Yale University and Director of the Yale Program in Iranian Studies. His most recent book is Iran: A Modern History (Yale University Press, 2017). His other publications include: Apocalyptic Islam and Iranian Shi’ism (I.B. Tauris, 2009...
April 17, 2019 4:30 – 7:00 p.m.
Niloofar Haeri is Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University and Director of the Program in Islamic Studies. She received her B.A and Ph.D in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania. Her first book The Sociolinguistic Market of Cairo: Gender, Class and Education...
November 14, 2017 12pm – 2pm
Laleh Khalili is a professor of Middle East Politics at SOAS, the author of Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration (Cambridge 2007), Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies (Stanford 2013), the editor of Modern Arab Politics (Routledge 2008) and...
April 12, 2016 12pm – 2pm
Between people power uprisings and armed jihadism, how can we best understand transgressive mobilization in the Middle East and North Africa?
January 27, 2020 5:45 – 7:15 p.m.
Narges Bajoghli is assistant professor of Middle East studies at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University. She is an award-winning anthropologist, filmmaker, and writer. Her academic research focuses on the intersections of media, power, and military in Iran....
October 30, 2020 1:30pm – 3pm
Speaker Bios:Razan Idris is a Sudanese-American third-year PhD student in History at the University of Pennsylvania. She studies histories of blackness in Afro-Arab communities on the African continent and in diaspora. For her current project, Razan has been exploring black identity at the...
October 22, 2019 5:00 – 6:30 p.m.
Adeeb Khalid is Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies and History at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, where he has taught since 1993. He works on Central Asia in the period after the imperial conquests of the 19th century, with thematic interests in religion and cultural...
March 11, 2020 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Reese Erlich's history in journalism goes back over 45 years. He works as a full-time print and broadcast journalist, filing for PRI, CBC (Canada), The Progressive, VICE News, and Foreign Policy, among others. He writes a nationally distributed column "Foreign Correspondent," which appears every...
February 13, 2017 12pm – 2pm
April 17, 2018 12 p.m. – 2 p.m.
Peter Green Lecture on the Modern Middle East
September 29, 2016 12pm – 2pm
March 16, 2022 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
About the SpeakerAsef Bayat is a professor of sociology and the Catherine and Bruce Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Before joining the University of Illinois, he taught at the American University in Cairo for many years; and...
September 20, 2022 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
From feminist travelogues of the late nineteenth century that hint at anti-imperialism to techno-lyrical modes on social media that resist neocolonial militarism, this network grows through experimentation with genre and creation of new literary forms. In defying and expanding genre...