May 2, 2018
MES Senior Paper Presentation Day 2018
8:30 a.m. – 3 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.
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
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 31, 2018
Shamiran Mako – Institutions, Exclusion, and Communal Conflict in Iraq
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
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