Apr 24, 2019
Rawan Arar – Leveraging Sovereignty: Syrian Refugees and the Jordanian State
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
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 17, 2019
Peter Green Lecture on the Modern Middle East with Niloofar Haeri – ‘Say What Your Longing Heart Desires’: An Ethnography of Spontaneous Prayer in Iran
By invitation only
4:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Mar 15, 2019
New Directions in Palestinian Studies 2019 – Palestinian Homes and Houses: Subjectivities and Materialities
Closed workshop
9 a.m. – 3 p.m. Pembroke Center, PH305, 172 Meeting Street
Mar 13, 2019
Asli Zengin – Caring for the Dead: Intimacy, Abandonment and Transgender Funerals in Turkey
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. 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
By invitation only
4:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Feb 27, 2019
Lidia Gocheva – Three Refutations of the Philosophers’ View on Divine Knowledge
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Jan 30, 2019
Nadje Al-Ali – Feminist Dilemmas: How to Talk about Gender-Based Violence in the Middle East?
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Jan 29, 2019
Critical Conversations: Experiences of Incarceration in the United States & Syria
5 p.m. – 6:45 p.m. Room 101, Stephen Robert Hall, 280 Brook Street
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
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