Apr 14, 2015
Sexualities and Queer Imaginaries in the Middle East
Middle East Studies Engaged Scholarship Conference
Sayles Hall
Center for Middle East Studies
The Center for 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 10–11, 2015
Apr 8, 2015
Elizabeth Wolfson ─ Training Mind, Body, and Spirit: American Education and Sports Culture at Robert College
Middle East Studies Luncheon Seminar Series
12 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Apr 3, 2015
Screening of Wadjda
"Dreaming of Tomorrow: Youth Culture in the Middle East" Film Series
5:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Apr 2, 2015
Ellen Amster ─ Healing the Body, Healing the Islamic Umma: Medicine and Sufi Saints in Morocco
Middle East Studies Lecture Series
5 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Mar 30, 2015
Mar 17, 2015
Screening of Kings and Extras – Digging for a Palestinian Image
"1948 – Once Upon a Palestine" Film Series
6 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Mar 11, 2015
Sarah Tobin ─ Early Marriage in Zaatari: Displacement and Agency Among Syrian Refugees
Middle East Studies Luncheon Seminar Series
12 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Mar 10, 2015
Yousef Hilmy '16 and Michael Chernin '15 ─ Transgressing Textual Borders: Taha Husayn's Intellectual Trajectory and The Death Penalty in Shari'a
Middle East Studies Undergraduate Paper Series
6:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Mar 6–7, 2015
Palestine: Political Cultures and the Cultures of Politics
New Directions in Palestinian Studies
Corporation Room, 3rd Floor, University Hall
Mar 5, 2015
Critical Conversations on Palestine/Israel ─ What is to be Done?
5:30 p.m. Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center
Feb 27, 2015
Screenings of Return to Haifa and Ma’loul Celebrates its Destruction
“1948 – Once Upon a Palestine” Film Series
5:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Feb 26, 2015
Arab Comics: 90 Years of Popular Visual Culture Symposium
1:30 p.m.-6 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Feb 19, 2015
Feb 17, 2015
Screening of The Time that Remains
“1948 – Once Upon a Palestine” Film Series
5:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Feb 11, 2015
Mai Al-Nakib ─ The Hidden Light of Objects: Fiction and the Quotidian in Kuwait
Middle East Studies Lecture Series
12 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Feb 6, 2015
Screening of Frontiers of Dreams and Fears
"Dreaming of Tomorrow: Youth Culture in the Middle East" Film Series
5:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Feb 4, 2015
Yara Jarallah ─ Marriage and Fertility under Occupation: A Study of the West Bank of Palestine
Middle East Studies Luncheon Seminar Series
12 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Feb 2 – Mar 30, 2015
Art at Watson and Middle East Studies Present Arab Comics: 90 Years of Popular Visual Culture
Weekdays, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Watson Institute
Dec 4, 2014
Sebouh D. Aslanian ─ Port Cities and Printers: Reflections on Early Modern Global Armenian Print Culture, 1512-1800
Middle East Studies Lecture Series
5 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Dec 3, 2014
Lisa DiCarlo ─ Are You Armenian Now? Christian Converts in Contemporary Turkey
Middle East Studies Luncheon Seminar Series
12 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Dec 2, 2014
Orient and Occident with Their Best Have Crowned Thee: Turbulent Times Across Ottoman Turkey
Middle East Studies Undergraduate Paper Series
6:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Nov 20, 2014
Amal Sachedina ─ Translating Tradition into Modernity: Refiguring Religion through Heritage Practices in the Sultanate of Oman
Aga Khan VP Lecture
5 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Nov 19, 2014
Nazila Fathi ─ Iran’s Islamic Revolution 35 Years Later
Iran in the 21st Century Luncheon Lecture Series
12 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Nov 18, 2014