University of Pittsburgh Department of Religious Studies
Announced by the University of Pittsburgh
Please join the University of Pittsburgh's Department of Religious Studies for the colloquium “Scattered Tiles, Defaced Birds: The Life of Persian Luster Tiles in the Contested Shrine Complex of Abd al-Samad, Natanz, Iran."
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.
The Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding
Announced by the University of Pittsburgh
The Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding is hosting Mustafa Akyol, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, for a talk titled “The Judeo-Islamic Tradition: A Forgotten Story” on Wednesday, March 26 at Noon in the ACMCU Boardroom (ICC 270).
Palestine Center and The Institute for Palestine Studies
Announced by the University of Pittsburgh
The Jerusalem Fund's Palestine Center and The Institute for Palestine Studies-USA (IPS-USA) invite you to join us for the launch of Brian Barber’s new book, "No Way But Forward: Life Stories of Three Families in the Gaza Strip," in conversation with Said Arikat, renowned Palestinian journalist, senior fellow at The Jerusalem Fund’s Palestine Center and the Washington bureau chief for Jerusalem based newspaper Al-Quds.
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.
The University of Arizona Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Critical Languages Program, and the University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Announced by the University of Pittsburgh
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A Taste of Kurdish (Kurmanji): Please join this free introduction to Kurdish (Kurmanji), a five-week long course which will be held via Zoom. Kurmanji, the northern Kurdish dialect, is the most widely used Kurdish language, spoken primarily in Turkey, and in smaller numbers in Iran, Iraq, and Syria.
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.
