Announcements

No Way but Forward: Life Stories of Three Families in the Gaza Strip Date & Time
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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.
Keep Eyes on Sudan: Teaching and Artistic Production on Sudan
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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.

Naila and the Uprising
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Announced by the University of Pittsburgh
A Taste of Kurdish (Kurmanji)
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Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

*Note the time is in Pacific Standard time*
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.
World Literature: Sulaiman Addonia (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Britain) “The Seers”
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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.

Book Study for Educators: Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal
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For educators studying the urgent and long standing questions of education and Palestine. 2nd of 2 virtual book discussion
March 25, 2025 6 - 8 PM EST
Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal by Mohammed El-Kurd

Sponsored by the Kinloch Commons for Critical Pedagogy and Leadership at the University of Pittsburgh

Register Sabina Vaught svaught@pitt.edu
Arab Women & Feminist Visions for Equity and Belonging
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Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

Land of Spies: Inside the FBI’s Informant Program Targeting Arab, Palestinian, SWANA & Muslim Migrant Narratives
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Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

*Note this is in Pacific Standard Time*
Dr. Amir Aziz investigates the decades-long history of FBI informant programs in the U.S. that attempt to recruit Arab, Palestinian, Muslim, and South-West Asian and North African (SWANA) migrants to serve as counter-terrorism intelligence informants and spy on their communities. FBI agents ply migrants, all with vulnerable immigration status, with false promises of immigration relief and employ deportation threats to coax them into becoming ‘compliant’ informants.
Book Talk: Reform and Its Perils in Contemporary Islam
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The Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding is hosting Dr. Nadia Oweidat, Assistant Professor at Kansas State University, for a Book Talk on Reform and Its Perils in Contemporary Islam: The Case of Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd on March 13th at Noon in the ACMCU Boardroom (ICC 270).

Aramco World Learning Center
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Aramco World has released a curriculum through its Learning Center.

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