Announcements

My First and Only Love with Translator Aida Bamia
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Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

Join via Zoom for a special event with the translator of My First and Only Love, an historical Palestinian novel written by Sahar Khalifeh. Dr. Aida Bamia will give a short lecture about the book and her work as its translator, which will be followed by facilitated small group discussions of the book.
Colonial Legacies, Religion, and Politics in the Maghrib: Reflections on Morocco and Algeria
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Announced by the University of Pittsburgh.
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Dungan Folktales and Legends
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Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

Kenneth J. Yin (City University of New York) joins us to discuss the folk narratives of the Dungans, Chinese-speaking Muslims who fled Northwest China for Russian Central Asia after the failure of the Dungan Revolt (1862-1877) against the Qing dynasty.

Register here: https://events.iu.edu/islamic/event/460770

Muslims of the Heartland: How Syrian Immigrants Made a Home in the American Midwest.
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Announced by the University of Pittsburgh
Children and Youth Literature in the Classroom: Teaching Place and Displacement in Africa and the Middle East
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Announced by the University of Pittsburgh
Yemen’s Humanitarian Crisis and War in Context
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Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

Lecture by Dr. Dana Moss (former Pitt faculty of Sociology)
Colonial Legacies, Religion, and Politics in the Maghrib: Reflections on Morocco and Algeria
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Speaker: Mary Jane C. Parmentier
Description: Colonial legacies, and the integration of religious and political systems is a common theme across the Maghrib, and is one aspect that characterizes the region. The nature of these legacies and current dynamics vary significantly, however, from how colonialism affected the societies, to how religious and political institutions are mutually constructed. This talk will contrast historical themes in in de-colonization and state-building in Morocco and Algeria, and how these histories have resulted in the current nation-states.
Middle Eastern Women: Diverse and Amazing Role Models
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Description: One of the biggest mistakes we make as writers, teachers, and storytellers is to show our audiences only perfect role models. This is off-putting to everyone, not just to young women. Research urges us again and again to show that the success achieved by role models should be attainable and replicable. That’s why the women in Wafa’ Tarnowska’s book Amazing Women of the Middle East are not perfect. They are not only queens or princesses. They come from all walks of life and from many parts of the Middle East.
Farewell to Kabul: Afghanistan after Withdrawal
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Speaker: Carter Malkasian
Description: Dr. Carter Malkasian was the Special Assistant for Strategy to Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford from 2015 to 2019. He has extensive experience working in conflict zones. He spent nearly two years in Garmser district, Helmand province, Afghanistan, as a State Department political officer. His 2013 book, “War Comes to Garmser: Thirty Years of Conflict on the Afghan Frontier” (Oxford UP), won the 2014 silver medal for the Council on Foreign Relations’ Arthur Ross Book Award.
Date: Thursday, March 3
The Outlaw Ocean Project: The Migration Crisis off the Coast of Libya
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Ian Urbina will be discussing the current migration crisis in Libya, based largely off his recent investigation in The New Yorker. The E.U., led by Italy, has trained and equipped the Libyan Coast Guard to serve as a proxy maritime force, whose central purpose is to stop migrants from reaching European shores. Efficient and brutal, the at-sea capture and on land internment of these migrants is what European Union officials hail as part of a successful partnership with Libya in their “humanitarian rescue” efforts across the Mediterranean.

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