Nov 28, 2018
Ahoo Najafian – Staging the Aborted Past: Scenes from Alternative Theater in Iran
5:45 p.m. – 7:15 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Middle East Studies
Middle East Studies at Brown University promotes knowledge, understanding, and informed discussion about the Middle East, Islam, and Muslim societies through research, teaching, and public engagement.
Nov 9, 2018
Warzones as Displacement in the Middle East: The Kurdish Case
9:15 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Nov 9 – Dec 13, 2018
Art at Watson presents The Displaced Language of Mesopotamia
Weekdays, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Watson Institute
Oct 23, 2018
Alia Al-Senussi – The New Saudi Arabia: A Kingdom Embraces Soft Power
4:30 p.m. – 6 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Oct 18, 2018
The Music of Syria: A Concert by Contemporary Syrian Composers and Performers with Ashraf Kateb & Hamsa Al-Wadi Juris
5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Maddock Alumni Center, 38 Brown Street, Providence, RI
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
Sep 25, 2018
Sep 19, 2018
Alireza Doostdar – Signs of Satan in Iran: Hollywood, Cosmopolitanism, Paranoia
4:30 p.m. – 6 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
May 2, 2018
MES Senior Paper Presentation Day 2018
8:30 a.m. – 3 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 13–15, 2018
Department of Egyptology and Assyriology Workshop – Rethinking the Origins: the Departure of Ancient Egyptian as a Branch from the Afroasiatic Family?
Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, RI Hall 108, 60 George Street, Providence, RI 02912
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
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 9–10, 2018
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