Iman Mersal in Conversation with Mona Kareem
Professor Iman Mersal is an Egyptian writer, translator, and literary scholar and a professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Alberta
Past Events
Choose Year:
Middle East / North Africa Film Series - Session One: Hassan wa Morcus
Facilitated by Dr. Younasse Tarbouni
William 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.
Zionism and Anti-Zionism: Beyond the Polemics
Ethan Katz is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley
Celebrating the Publication of Longing and Belonging: Jews in the Modern Islamic World
Nancy E. Berg is professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis.
Arab Brazil: Ternary Orientalism and the Question of South-South Comparison
Waïl S. Hassan, Professor and Head, Department of Comparative & World Literature, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
A Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) Policy Trap? Lessons from Israeli and American Higher Education
Prof. 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 Jerusalem; Dr. Kia Lilly Caldwell is the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Diversity, Professor of African and African American Studies, and Dean’s Distinguished Professorial Scholar in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.
The Political Geography of the Last and Largest Empire of the Long Late Antiquity
Stefan Heidemann is a Professor of Islamic Studies at Universität Hamburg
Middle East / North Africa Film Series - Session Two: Ten'ja
Facilitated by Dr. Younasse Tarbouni