Apr 2025

01 Apr 2025

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Cities on the Edge: Urbanization, Sustainability, and the Future of Development

Tuesday, April 1, 2025 - 8:00pm to Wednesday, April 2, 2025 - 10:00pm
Remote
Sponsored By: 
The Today in International Politics Speaker Series

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

01 Apr 2025

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Applications Due: Bridges, Borders, and Migration: Middle East and African Cultures

Tuesday, April 1, 2025 - 11:45pm
Remote
Sponsored By: 
The University of North Carolina Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies and African 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.

02 Apr 2025

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Book Talk - “Christ in the Rubble” with Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac

Wednesday, April 2, 2025 - 3:00pm
Hybrid
Sponsored By: 
CCAS, the Alwaleed Center for Christian-Muslim Understanding and the Program on Justice and Peace

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

Join CCAS, the Alwaleed Center for Christian-Muslim Understanding and the Program on Justice and Peace for an event featuring Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac who will be speaking about his experiences as a Pastor in Bethlehem, Palestinian Christians, and his new book, Christ in the Rubble: Faith, the Bible, and the Genocide in Gaza. This event will be moderated by CCAS professor Dr. Rochelle Davis.

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

02 Apr 2025

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House in the Fields

Wednesday, April 2, 2025 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Remote
Sponsored By: 
The University of Arizona Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, University of Illinois Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin Center for Middle Eastern Stud

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

05 Apr 2025

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Keep Eyes on Sudan: Teaching and Artistic Production on Sudan

Saturday, April 5, 2025 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
Hybrid
Sponsored By: 
Georgetown African Studies Program, the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, the Georgetown Conflict Resolution Program, the Gender+ Justice Initiative and Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

Join the Georgetown African Studies Program, the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, the Georgetown Conflict Resolution Program, the Gender+ Justice Initiative and Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security for an event in a series of programming on Sudan.

05 Apr 2025

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Keep Eyes on Sudan: Teaching and Artistic Production on Sudan

Saturday, April 5, 2025 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
Hybrid
Sponsored By: 
Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, African Studies, Conflict Resolution Program, Gender and Justice Initiative, and Institute for Women, Peace, and Security

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

06 Apr 2025

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World Literature: Sulaiman Addonia (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Britain) “The Seers”

Sunday, April 6, 2025 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Hybrid, Alphabet City 40 W. North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Sponsored By: 
City of Asylum

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

Reminiscent of Zora Neale Hurston and Clarice Lispector, Eritrean-Ethiopian-British novelist Sulaiman Addonia turns a wandering eye toward the erotic and intimate lives of asylum seekers in his forthcoming novel, The Seers. Sulaiman visits City of Asylum this Spring in the company of moderator and City of Asylum Curator for World Literature, Anderson Tepper.

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.

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