Lecture/Forum

15 Apr 2025

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Palestine in Letters

Tuesday, April 15, 2025 - 2:00pm
Remote
Sponsored By: 
Georgetown University’s Arabic and Islamic Studies and Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, the Sakka Family Foundation, and The D.C. Palestinian Film and Arts Festiva

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

23 Apr 2025

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The Gaza Genocide and the Question of Palestine

Wednesday, April 23, 2025 - 12:00pm
Remote
Sponsored By: 
Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, the African Studies Program, the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, and Georgetown University Qatar,

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

The Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, in partnership with the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, the African Studies Program, the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, and Georgetown University Qatar, is hosting Dr. Saree Makdisi, Professor and Chair of the Department of English at UCLA, for a talk titled “The Gaza Genocide and the Question of Palestine” on Wednesday, April 23rd at Noon.

17 Apr 2025

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Shifting Boundaries, Moving People? Investigating Change in Archaic Western Anatolia

Thursday, April 17, 2025 - 9:00am
Virtual
Sponsored By: 
Berkley Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

This lecture is part of the series Migration, Borderlands, and Social Boundaries in Antiquity. This program of public lectures takes place monthly on Thursdays at 9:30 AM Pacific, from September 2024 through May 2025. This lecture focuses on Shifting Boundaries, Moving People? Investigating Change in Archaic Western Anatolia.

14 Apr 2025

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Freedom of Speech, Trump and Campus Repression: The Case of Badar Khan Suri

Monday, April 14, 2025 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Hybrid
Sponsored By: 
The Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and the Georgetown University Lecture Fund

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.

12 Apr 2025

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Rise of the Ottomans

Saturday, April 12, 2025 - 5:00pm
Remote
Sponsored By: 
KIFLAYN The wisdom of Islam in Ilm

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh
*Note that this event is in GMT time zone*

09 Apr 2025

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Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine

Wednesday, April 9, 2025 - 5:00pm
Hybrid
Sponsored By: 
The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding

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.

08 Apr 2025

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Slavery in the Early Mughal World: The Life and Thoughts of Jawhar Aftabachi (1520s–1580s)

Tuesday, April 8, 2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Hybrid
Sponsored By: 
Berkley Institute for South Asia Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures

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.

09 Apr 2025

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The Great Powers and Iran: A Memoir by Dr. Shireen Hunter

Wednesday, April 9, 2025 - 4:00pm
Hybrid
Sponsored By: 
The Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

02 Apr 2025

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From Secularism to Public Order: Identity Politics and the Idea of Muslim Solidarity in France

Wednesday, April 2, 2025 - 4:30pm to 5:30pm
Wesley W. Posvar Hall, 4130
Sponsored By: 
University of Pittsburgh's European Studies Center,

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

01 Apr 2025

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U.S. and Global Military Engagement with the Arab World

Wednesday, April 2, 2025 - 12:30am
Remote
Sponsored By: 
Center for Contemporary Arab Studies

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies invites you to a lecture by Dr. Shana Marshall, Associate Director of the Institute for Middle East Studies at the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs.

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