Events

The Middle East Center hosts a wide range of public events, including lectures, cultural events, film festivals, panel discussions, and interactive workshops. All of our events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise specified. 



Requiring Resistance: Life Against Carceral and Colonial Violence in Egypt and Palestine

Yasmin El-Rifae
Apr 8, 2025 at -

About the event



Islamic Socialism: The Difficulty of Justice as Equality

Apr 9, 2025 at -

Islamic Socialism: The Difficulty of Justice as Equality 



The Cultural Journey of Folklore and Dance: Halay

Apr 10, 2025 at -

Speaker: Dr. Ahmet KeskinDr. Ahmet Keskin is a faculty member in the Department of Turkology at Samsun University. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on Turkish culture and folklore. Keskin's research focuses…



2025 CARGC Fellows Biennial Conference: Unsettling Global Media and Communication Studies

Please join us on April 10 & 11, 2025 for a biennial CARGC fellows’ symposium that will explore the theme, "Unsettling Global Media and Communication Studies."
Apr 10, 2025 - Apr 11, 2025 (All Day)

The 2025 biennial fellows’ conference explores how the surge in political violence, the ongoing genocide and its subsequent censorship, conditions knowledge production in the field of global media and communication…



"How Local Can You (Really) Go?" Archaeology in the Ottoman Lands in the Long 19th Century

Humanities-at-Large Lecture with Prof Edhem Eldem
Apr 10, 2025 at -

Edhem EldemSakıp Sabancı Visiting Professor, History Department, Columbia University



Fragmented Return

Screening Scholarship Media Festival (SSMF): Sound & Color.
Apr 11, 2025 at -

Fragmented Return When Huda (b. 1982) and Farah (b. 1985) first met in Gaza in 1997, neither could have anticipated that their brief musical performance at the Latin Patriarchate School, also known as Deir al-…



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 -

"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…



The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran

Booktalk with Beeta Baghoolizadeh
Apr 24, 2025 at -

The Middle East Center is hosting Beeta Baghoolizadeh for a book talk on The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran.