Past Events

Events



The Formation of the Arabic Novel and the Enlightenment Movement

Gaber Asfour, Undersecretary of the Egyptian Ministry of Culture and Professor of Arabic Literature, Cairo University
Apr 2, 2001 at



Islam in the Mix: Religion and the Globalization of Hip Hop Culture

Poor Righteous Teachers (C Rayz Walz, Grand Agent, Jamarah Leverette, Suheir Hammad)
Mar 30, 2001 at

Conference: 10AM to 4PM, Amado Recital Hall (at 34th & Spruce St.) Concert: 8PM, at the Rotunda (4012 Walnut Street). Admission is FREE For more information, call the Middle East Center at 215-898-6335.



Scholarship, Rebellion, and the Perfect Man: Themes in Chinese Muslim History

Zvi Aziz Ben-Dor, Fellow at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis
Mar 29, 2001 at



Medicine & Philosophy in the 10th Century: A Special Focus on Abu-Zayd al-Balkhi

Dr. Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum
Mar 22, 2001 at



Tel Aviv's Rothschild: When a Boulevard Becomes a Monument

Barbara Mann, Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
Mar 8, 2001 at



The Discovery of Urkesh and the Dawn of a Civilization

Giorgio Buccellati, Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, and Department of History, UCLA; Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati, Professor, Art History, California State University, Los Angeles
Feb 15, 2001 at

Come here professors Buccellati and Kelly-Buccellati speak about how they selected the site of Tell Mozan, located in northeastern Syria. They identify the site as Urkesh--an important third millenium B.C. capital…



Hegemony, Historical Memory, and State Power: Reflections from Iraq

Eric Davis, Professor of Political Science and Director of Rutger's Program in Middle East Studies
Feb 15, 2001 at



Preachers, Prayer-Leaders, and the Public in the Period of Crusades and Counter-Crusades

Daniella Talmon-Heller, Hebrew University visiting research fellow at Princeton University
Feb 8, 2001 at



Animal Style Art and/or Scythians and New Discoveries in the Northwest Caucasus (6th-4th Centuries B.C.)

Feb 2, 2001 at



Department of Classics Colloquium: Herodotus and the New Discoveries of Scythian Monuments

Feb 1, 2001 at