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Announced by the University of Pittsburgh Tunisia’s democratic transition, under severe strain in recent years, stands at the precipice of total collapse. Recent presidential elections on October 6 saw the exclusion of nearly all candidates and restrictions on the few who ran. Are there any prospects left for democracy in the birthplace of the “Arab Spring”? |
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Announced by the University of Pittsburgh Immersive and gripping, Nathan Thrall’s Pulitzer prize-winning book A Day in the Life of Abed Salama is an indelibly human portrait of the struggle over Israel/Palestine that offers a new understanding of the tragic history and reality of one of the most contested places on earth. |
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Announced by the University of Pittsburgh The One State Reality argues that a one state reality already predominates in the territories controlled by the state of Israel. The One State Reality forces a reconsideration of foundational concepts such as state, sovereignty, and nation, encourages different readings of history, and provides context for confronting uncomfortable questions such as whether Israel/Palestine is an "apartheid state." |
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Announced by the University of Pittsburgh Countries across the world are experiencing an alarming rise in ethnonationalism, including in Western self-described democracies. Expressed in racial or religious exclusionary terms, these often-violent movements are led or enabled by governments as a means of scapegoating minorities for failed policies and poor governance. In the most extreme cases, these contemporary ethnonationalist movements seek to ethnically cleanse or eliminate an entire religious or racial minority from the nation-state. |
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Announced by the University of Pittsburgh Akyol will discuss key ideas from his recent book, The Islamic Moses: How the Prophet Inspired Jews and Muslims to Flourish Together and Change the World. The talk will address historical episodes of coexistence and collaboration between Jewish and Muslim communities, drawing attention to how these experiences can inform current perspectives on governance and pluralism. |
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In case you missed last week's event with Dr. Sherman Jackson, the Alwaleed Center for Muslim–Christian Understanding posted a recording of the event. In his latest book, Dr. Sherman Jackson contends that the basic point of the secular in the modern West is to "liberate" certain pursuits--the state, the economy, science--from the authority of religion. This is also assumed to be the goal and meaning of "secular" in Islam. |
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Announced by the University of Pittsburgh Join the American University in Cairo Press for the virtual book discussion of Making Routes: Mobility and the Politics of Migration in the Global South, (AUC Press, 2024), a rich interdisciplinary study of the diversity and dynamics of the migrations of displaced peoples across the Global South. The discussion will be with book editors Gerda Heck, Eda Sevinin, Elena Habersky and Carlos Sandoval-García, with contributor Kudakwashe Vanyoro and in conversation with discussant Sujata Ramachandran. |
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