February 13, 2025 5:40 PMIman Mersal in Conversation with Mona KareemProfessor Iman Mersal is an Egyptian writer, translator, and literary scholar and a professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of AlbertaThe Ginko Room | Olin Library
February 17, 2025 5:00 PMMiddle East / North Africa Film Series - Session One: Hassan wa MorcusFacilitated by Dr. Younasse TarbouniBusch Hall Room 100
March 06, 2025 5:00 PMWilliam H. Matheson Lecture | March 6, 2025 The William H. Matheson Lecture will be held Thursday March 6, 2025 at 5 PM. Our guest speaker will be Aron Aji, Ph.D. | Director of Translation Programs, Associate Professor of Instruction at The University of Iowa. Duncker Hall | Hurst Lounge
March 25, 2025 6:00 PMZionism and Anti-Zionism: Beyond the PolemicsEthan Katz is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, BerkeleyClark-Fox Forum | Hillman Hall, 1st Floor
March 27, 2025 12:00 PMCelebrating the Publication of Longing and Belonging: Jews in the Modern Islamic WorldNancy E. Berg is professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. Zoom Webinar
April 10, 2025 4:00 PMArab Brazil: Ternary Orientalism and the Question of South-South ComparisonWaïl S. Hassan, Professor and Head, Department of Comparative & World Literature, University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignHurst Lounge
April 17, 2025 5:30 PMA Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) Policy Trap? Lessons from Israeli and American Higher EducationProf. Ayala Hendin is an Israel Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis; Prof. Mona Khoury is the Vice President for Strategy and Diversity at the Hebrew University of JerusalemBrown Lounge in Brown Hall
April 21, 2025 4:00 PMThe Political Geography of the Last and Largest Empire of the Long Late AntiquityStefan Heidemann is a Professor of Islamic Studies at Universität HamburgWeil Hall, Room 10
April 21, 2025 5:00 PMMiddle East / North Africa Film Series - Session Two: Ten'jaFacilitated by Dr. Younasse TarbouniBusch Hall Room 100