Aimee Genell, Hasan Kayalı with Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano, Harun Küçük (moderators)
Nov 17, 2021
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Is it possible to think about the modern Middle East without thinking about the Ottoman Empire? Were the end of the World War I and the formal dissolution of the Ottoman Empire as significant as most Middle East…
Glenn Robinson, Associate Professor in Defense Analysis at the Graduate School of Operational and Information Sciences in the Naval Postgraduate School
Nov 3, 2021
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Most violent jihadi movements in the twentieth century focused on removing corrupt or repressive secular regimes throughout the Muslim world. But following the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, a new form of jihadism…
The last decade has seen a great deal of attention on the relationship between China and the Middle East. New economic and trade initiatives, a flurry of Chinese goods and construction services throughout the region,…
Mapping New Archival Sources to Village-Level Data
Daniel Arnon, Richard McAlexander, and Michael Rubin
Oct 26, 2021
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The historical literature on political conflict in Mandate Palestine richly emphasizes the Israeli and Palestinian narratives of the origins of the conflict and analyzes the lived experiences in specific localities,…
"Social Change and the Global Middle East" Series with the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy
Joel Beinin, Rashid Khalidi, and moderator Sean Yom
Oct 21, 2021
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The Middle East has a longstanding reputation as a place of contention, where ethnic groups and global powers alike have struggled over land, trade routes and, more recently, valuable resources such as oil. The Arab…
Hadi Jorati, Assistant Professor of History & Near Eastern Studies at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Oct 21, 2021
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In this talk, Professor Jorati will put the narratives of the Mongol Campaigns in the West and the establishment of the Ilkhanate under scrutiny, with a focus on the career of the thirteenth century mathematician,…
Harun Küçük, Director of the Middle East Center and Assistant Professor of History and Sociology of Science
Oct 19, 2021
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Join us for a very special evening, featuring the new director of the Middle East Center at the University of Pennsylvania, Harun Küçük. Dr. Küçük will be discussing the role and importance of science in …
After 15 years as prime minister of Israel, including a three-year stint in the 1990's Binyamin Netanyahu went down in history as that country's longest-serving leader — fundamentally transforming Israel's domestic…
“Can there be an Arabic prose poem?” is a specific instantiation of the more universal question “Can there be a prose poem?” In Arabic, however, the question takes on added urgency because it threatens to transform the…
