Rawad Wehbe, PhD Candidate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania, Chef Osama Herkal
Oct 3, 2019
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Where do We Go Now ? is a comedy from director Nadine Labaki which explores the lives of Christians and Muslims in a small Lebanese village, as the women conspire to avert sectarian strife through a series of plots. The…
The Israeli writer Judith Katzir will be in conversation with Dr. Nili Gold, Professor of Modern Hebrew, Language and Literature, University of Pennsylvania. She will address the literary innovations brought by the wave…
Dr. Ian Hartshorn, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Nevada, Reno
Oct 2, 2019
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Based on more than 150 interviews with trade unionists, activists, politicians, and workers in Tunisia and Egypt, Dr. Ian Hartshorn explores how disgruntled workers broke away from their captured unions to create new,…
Dr. Ahmad Almallah, Lecturer of Arabic and Arabic Literature, University of Pennsylvania
Sep 26, 2019
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Through finely crafted poems Ahmad Almallah replicates his own verbal and cultural experience of existing between languages and socities. There is a sense of displacement to these poems as Almallah recounts the amusing…
Join us for an evening with Hisham Matar, Pulitzer winning Libyan memoirist and novelist. Matar's father, Jaballa Matar, a Libyan businessman who became a prominent critic of the Muammar el-Qaddaffi's dictatorship in…
Dr. Keren Friedman-Peleg, Visiting Assistant Professor, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Sep 25, 2019
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Dr. Keren Friedman-Peleg, Visiting Assistant Professor, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, will address the politics of trauma on the border of Israel and Gaza. Light lunch and…
Dr. Seth Anziska, Associate Professor of Jewish-Muslim Relations, University College London
Sep 24, 2019
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Dr. Seth Anziska, Associate Professor of Jewish-Muslim Relations, University College London, will give a talk based on his recent book Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo (2018). In this…
Dr. Robert Vitalis, Professor in Comparative International Relations, Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
Sep 19, 2019
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Dr. Robert Vitalis, Professor in Comparative International Relations, Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania will discuss the myth of a special US-Saudi relationship, its origin and why we tend to…
Professor Hugh Roberts, Edward Keller Professor of North African and Middle Eastern History, Tufts University
Sep 17, 2019
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Come join us for a talk by Professor Hugh Roberts, Edward Keller Professor of North African and Middle Eastern History, Tufts University, on the recent Algeria protests. Following his talk Professor Roberts will be in…
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How have people in Philadelphia, the Middle East, and North Africa shaped their urban…
