Kelly J. Shannon, Associate Professor of History at Florida Atlantic University
Oct 18, 2018
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Join Dr. Kelly Shannon for a discussion of long-standing stereotypes about Muslims, transnational feminism and the global human rights movement, and how US foreign policy has responded to intensifying concerns about…
Aron Rodrigue, Stanford Unversity, will be in conversation with Julia Phillips Cohen (Vanderbilt University), Lital Levy (Princeton University) and Jessica Marglin (University of Southern California) about Jews, Muslims…
Juan Cole, Professor of History at the University of Michigan and Director of its Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies
Oct 16, 2018
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In this talk Professor Cole will give a talk titled "Mecca as a sanctuary of peace during the Roman-Iranian War" based on his recently published book Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires.
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Rashid Khalidi, Joan Scott, Ian Lustick, Rebecca Stein, Melani McAlister, Bob Vitalis, Shira Robinson
Oct 15, 2018
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Book launch of Amy Kaplan's Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance. The book launch features Rashid Khalidi (Columbia University), Joan Scott (Institute for Advanced Study), Ian Lustick (University of…
Join us for an evening with veteran CNN correspondent and current freelance journalist in Tehran, Reza Sayah. Throughout his career he has covered major events on location such as the Arab Spring, the Cairo Square Riots…
Amir Ahmadi Aran is an Iranian novelist and journalist, the author of two critically acclaimed novels and a book of nonfiction in Farsi. He currently teaches liteature and creative writing at City College, New York.
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Breaking the Silence is an organization of veteran soldiers who have served in the Israeli military since the start of the Second Intifada and have taken it upon themselves to expose the public to the reality of…
Dr. Jillian Schwedler, Professor, Department of Political Science, Hunter College & The Graduate Center, CUNY
Sep 27, 2018
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The war in Yemen that began more than three years ago has brought the world's worst humanitarian crisis according to the UN. Contrary to widesprad perceptions, the United States is not merely assisting Saudi Arabia in…
