Past Events

Join emerging scholars Sumaya Malas and Ibrahim Bakri for an insightful discussion on the future of Syria as it navigates the complex path of recovery after years of conflict. The conversation will delve into post-…

Join Dr. Mohamad Mokdad for an in-depth exploration of how emerging energy sources are reshaping global power dynamics and transforming relations within the MENA region. This insightful session will analyze the…

Between the 1850s and World War I, the Ottoman Empire welcomed about a million Muslim refugees from Russia. These refugees established hundreds of villages throughout the Ottoman Balkans, Anatolia, and the Levant. Most…

Salafis explicitly base their legitimacy on continuity with the Quran and the Sunna, and their distinctive practices—praying in shoes, wearing long beards and short pants, and observing gender segregation—are understood…

Join us for a conversation with Dr. Beshara Doumani, the Mahmoud Darwish Professor of Palestinian Studies at Brown University, where he will reflect on current affairs, future uncertainties and the challenges of…

Join us for this last-minute addition to our program.

During the Middle Ages, the Iberian Peninsula was home not to Spain and Portugal but rather to al-Andalus. Ruled by a succession of Islamic dynasties, al-Andalus came to be a shorthand for a legendary place where people…

Many life stories of actors and narratives who lived during the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic have been silenced by the official historiography of the state, institutionalised in …

Upon their independence, Moroccan, Algerian, and Tunisian governments turned to the Global South and offered military and financial aid to Black liberation struggles. Tangier and Algiers attracted Black American and…

In Revolution of Things, Kusha Sefat traces a dynamism between materiality and language that sheds light on how the merger of the two permeates politics. To show how shifting relations between things and terms form…