Past Events

Events



CANCELLED: From Khurasan to Baghdad via Maragheh: Elite Scholarly and Administrative Circles in Mongol Iran

Apr 8, 2020 at

The Middle East Film Festival has been CANCELLED due to the circumstances surrounding COVID-19. It is important to the Middle East Center that we respect and prioritize the health and safety of our community. See here …



CANCELLED: China and the Middle East: Changes and Continuities in Contemporary Policy

Bill Figueroa
Apr 1, 2020 at

The Middle East Film Festival has been CANCELLED due to the circumstances surrounding COVID-19. It is important to the Middle East Center that we respect and prioritize the health and safety of our community. See here …



CANCELLED: Syria's Civil War and the Political Dynamics of Refugee Return

Lama Mourad
Mar 25, 2020 at

The Middle East Film Festival has been CANCELLED due to the circumstances surrounding COVID-19. It is important to the Middle East Center that we respect and prioritize the health and safety of our community. See here …



CANCELLED: Ethnicity and Conflict in Iraq's Oil City: A History of Kirkuk

Arbella Bet-Shlimon
Mar 25, 2020 at

The Middle East Film Festival has been CANCELLED due to the circumstances surrounding COVID-19. It is important to the Middle East Center that we respect and prioritize the health and safety of our community. See here …



CANCELLED: Film Festival | Middle East Film Festival 2020

Mar 16, 2020 at

The Middle East Film Festival has been CANCELLED due to the circumstances surrounding COVID-19. It is important to the Middle East Center that we respect and prioritize the health and safety of our community. See…



A Musical Journey in Central Asia

Adam Grode
Mar 5, 2020 at

Penn grad student and two-time Fulbright Scholar, Adam Grode is a Silk Road Ethnomusicologist and through stories and songs will provide a living soundtrack for the rich cultural heritage and musical traditions of…



Locusts of Power: Borders, Environment, and Empire in the Modern Middle East

Samuel Dolbee
Mar 4, 2020 at

This talk draws on Dr. Dolbee's research, primarily on sources in Arabic, French, Ottoman, and Turkish, to complicate narratives about borders in the Jazira region in Syria. He does so by following the locust – an…



The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire and the Challenge of Solidarity

Darryl Li
Mar 2, 2020 at

No contemporary figure is more demonized than the Islamist foreign fighter who wages jihad around the world. Spreading violence, disregarding national borders, and rejecting secular norms, so-called jihadists seem…



Turkey and the US: From Alliance Partners to Antagonists

Michael Reynolds
Feb 26, 2020 at

 



Defying Transience: Urban Landscapes in Dubai and Abu Dhabi

Yasser Elsheshtawy
Feb 25, 2020 at

This talk examines temporality and transience as an urban condition in the cities of Dubai and Abu Dhabi. While these are presented as the main driving force behind the spectacular structures that dominate their…