Mar 11, 2019
Chas Freeman ─ Order in Turmoil: Making Sense of Kaleidoscopic Change in the Middle East
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Middle East Studies
Oct 15, 2018
Shenila Khoja-Moolji – Forging the Ideal Educated Girl: The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia
12 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Apr 25, 2018
Screening of 3000 Nights+ Q&A with Mai Masri
5:30 p.m. – 8 p.m. Smith-Buonanno Hall 106
Apr 24, 2018
Faiz Ahmed – Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
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 13, 2018
E. Natalie Rothman – Trans-Imperial Archives: Rethinking Spatial Knowledge Production in the Venetian-Ottoman Borderlands
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Italian Studies, Room 102, 190 Hope Street, Providence
Apr 12, 2018
Tony Stewart – Mapping the Bengali Imaginaire: Fictional Encounters of Hindu & Muslim Worlds
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Apr 11, 2018
Alex Winder – Race, Religion, Empire, and the Palestine Police: In Pursuit of "A Suitable Proportion of 'Neutrals'"
Rescheduled from March 21st.
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Apr 10, 2018
Apr 3, 2018
Fatma Müge Göçek – Gender and Nationalism in Turkey and Kurdistan
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Mar 21, 2018
CANCELED: Alex Winder – Race, Religion, Empire, and the Palestine Police: In Pursuit of "A Suitable Proportion of 'Neutrals'"
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
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 p.m. – 6 p.m. Friedman Auditorium, Metcalf Hall
Mar 8, 2018
9th Critical Conversations Panel – Permission to Speak: Boycott and the Politics of Solidarity
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Friedman Auditorium, Metcalf Building, 190 Thayer Street
Mar 6, 2018
Feb 28, 2018
Undergraduate Paper Series Spring 2018
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Birkelund Board Room
Feb 28, 2018
Guy Ben-Porat – Police, Violence and Legitimacy: From Baltimore to Tel-Aviv
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Feb 21, 2018
Marwa M. Shalaby – Female Political Representation under Authoritarianism
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
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 S. Ahmad – Jihad & Co.: Black Markets and Islamist Power
4 p.m. – 6 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Jan 30, 2018
Screening of Cairo Station (Bab el hadid): An Appreciation, Sixty Years On
7 p.m. – 9 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Dec 6, 2017
Undergraduate Paper Series | Juan Colin '19, Benjamin Gladstone '18, Ryan Saadeh '20, and Rhea Stark '18
6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Nov 30, 2017
Karim Nagi – Arab Arts vs. Cultural Stereotyping: Multimedia Interactive Lecture & Concert
6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Salomon Center 101, De Ciccio Auditorium
Nov 17, 2017
Nicola Perugini – "Hospitals-shields": The Italo-Ethiopian War and the Global Transformation of International Law
12 p.m. – 2 p.m. Italian Studies Deparment, Room 102, 190 Hope Street, Providence, RI
Nov 15, 2017