Past Events

In the second half of the twentieth century, the notion of convivencia—the peaceable coexistence of Muslims, Christians, and Jews living in medieval Spain—dominated the art historical discourse on cultural interaction…

Join us for a fireside chat between UPenn PhD candidates Sirwan Renas and Daniel Shapiro, where they will explore how ethnic politics intersect with state foreign policy across the Middle East and neighboring regions,…

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

On Monday, April 21at 5:30 pm, the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures will hold its annual Trehan Lecture in Islamic Studies featuring Sunil Sharma of Boston University speaking on "The Landscapes of…

"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…

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-…

Edhem EldemSakıp Sabancı Visiting Professor, History Department, Columbia University

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…

Islamic Socialism: The Difficulty of Justice as Equality