CERIS

Consortium for Educational Resources on Islamic Studies

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Freedom of Speech, Trump and Campus Repression: The Case of Badar Khan Suri From Event Announced by the University of Pittsburgh The Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and the Georgetown University Lecture Fund are hosting a panel discussion with Aslı Bâli, Professor of Law at Yale Law School and President of MESA, David Cole, Professor in Law and Public Policy at Georgetown Law and former National Legal Director of ACLU, and Hassan Ahmad, principal of HMA Law Firm and Attorney for Badar Khan Suri, for a talk titled “Freedom of Speech, Trump and Campus Repression: The Case of Badar Khan Suri” on April 14 at 4pm in the HFSC Social Room.	Rise of the Ottomans From Event Announced by the University of Pittsburgh Note that this event is in GMT time zone
Queer Lebanese Cinema: Towards New Political Imaginaries From Event Announced by the University of Pittsburgh	Book Talk: Elastic Empire Refashioning War Through Aid in Palestine From Event 12 Noon ET Dr. Lisa Bhungalia Assistant Professor, Department of Geography University of Wisconsin-Madison, and former UCIS Visiting Professor in Contemporary International Issues will give a book talk. Her book examines the entanglements of aid, law, and war in Palestine with attention to the surveillance and policing regimes produced through the embedding of counterterrorism laws and infrastructures into civilian aid flows.
Malcolm X Week: Requiem for a Revolutionary The Life and Legacy of Malcolm X From Event Dr. Richard D. Bennson II to present lecture Dr. Richard D. Benson II is Associate Professor of the Black Radical Tradition in Education in the Department of Educational Foundations, Organizations, and Policy. Benson received his PhD in Educational Policy Studies specializing in History of Education from the University of Illinois in 2010. As a historian of education, Benson specializes in the Black Freedom Movement, the Black Radical Tradition, and transnational social movements.	Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine From Event Announced by the University of Pittsburgh Join CCAS for an event with scholar and author Salim Tamari, IPS senior fellow and the former director of the Institute of Jerusalem Studies. Salim Tamari will be discussing his most recent book he co-authored with Issam Nassar and Stephen Sheehi, Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine.
Slavery in the Early Mughal World: The Life and Thoughts of Jawhar Aftabachi (1520s–1580s) From Event Announced by the University of Pittsburgh Historian Ali Anooshahr on his new book, Slavery in the Early Mughal World: The Life and Thoughts of Jawhar Aftabachi (1520s–1580s), that studies the life and thoughts of a sixteenth-century slave in India named Jawhar Aftabachi (d. after 1587), who served as the water-carrier for the Mughal Emperor Humayun (d. 1556), and chronicled his reign in a Persian text.	Rethinking Iran Initiative: Woman, Life, Freedom From Resource The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Rethinking Iran Initiative presents a thorough, well-documented online curriculum on the current protests in Iran for high school students: Women, Life, Freedom: Discussing #Mahsaamini and Feminist Movements in the Classroom. The curriculum is free.
The Great Powers and Iran: A Memoir by Dr. Shireen Hunter From Event Announced by the University of Pittsburgh	From Secularism to Public Order: Identity Politics and the Idea of Muslim Solidarity in France From Event Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

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