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Bye Bye Tiberias

Film Screening, Followed by a Conversation with Director Lina Soalem
Feb 18, 2025 at - | Annenberg School for Communication, Room 109

Join us for a screening of the documentary film Bye Bye Tiberias (2023). After the screening, Director Lina Soualem will be in conversation with University of Pennsylvania Associate Professor of Arabic Literature Huda…



Keywords Symposium

Wolf Humanities Center's 2024-2025 Forum on Keywords Humanities Research Symposium - An MEC Co-Sponsored Event
Feb 21, 2025 at - | Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Van Pelt Library
3420 Walnut St 6th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19104

Keywords SymposiumIn conjunction with the Wolf Humanities Center’s 2024–2025 Forum on Keywords, this symposium engages mobile concepts and their genealogies, histories, structures of meaning, translations, and…



Book Talk: Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance

Written by Amy Kaplan, the late Edward W. Kane Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Her former colleagues and students will discuss the posthumously published work.
Apr 14, 2025 at - | Penn Bookstore, Second Floor

"Our American Israel is masterful and deserves a larger audience." --Ta-Nehisi Coates Join us in discussing Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance. Written by Amy Kaplan, the late Edward W. Kane…

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