Treasured Ornament: 10 Centuries of Islamic Art is organized by the Huntington Museum of Art and is toured by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC. The exhibit will run from August 17 to October 20, 2024
Sonia Nimr is an award-winning Palestinian writer, storyteller, translator, and oral historian who has published more than two dozen books for children and young adults. She is an assistant professor of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at Birzeit University.
The Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, the African Studies Program, and Georgetown University Qatar
Announced by the University of Pittsburgh
Description:
Join us for an important discussion with Nathan Thrall, 2024 Nonfiction Pulitzer Prize Winner, on how decades of failed U.S. policies and Israel’s system of domination have shaped this moment in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Situating Gaza in the context of Israel’s apartheid, Thrall will delve into what he describes as full U.S. complicity for ongoing war crimes and the paradigmatic shift needed among those who claim to support a peaceful and just resolution of the conflict.
Speakers:
Raph Cormack (Assistant Professor of Arabic at Durham University); Mohamed Elshahed (Author of Cairo Since 1900: An Architectural Guide (AUC Press, 2020); Ziad Fahmy (Professor of Modern Middle East History at Cornell U.); Moderated by Pascale Ghazaleh (Associate Professor of History at the American U. in Cairo)
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Institute for Regional and International Studies, Middle East Studies Program, Haven Wright Center and World Beyond War
Matthew B. Ridgeway Center for International Security Studies
Announced by the University of Pittsburgh
Join the Ridgway Center for an important lecture by Abdul-Hye Miah, formerly of the London Metropolitan Police and now Senior Lecturer at the University of Northampton. Drawing on several decades of experience in counterterrorism at “Scotland Yard,” Abdul will discuss the recent race riots in the United Kingdom.
Learn about the early years of the Nation of Islam, focusing on its beginnings in Detroit and its foundational role in shaping the identity and activism of Muslim communities across the United States.
Cost:
$15 members; $20 non-members; $5 students*
Description:
Filmed in 1924, Grass: A Nation's Battle comes to The Frick Pittsburgh on Saturday, Oct. 5 as part of the 2024 Pittsburgh Silent Film Festival.
Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, the African Studies Program, Georgetown University Qatar, and Democracy for the Arab World Now
