Announcements

Documentary: American Muslims A History Revealed
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PBS has released a documentary series titled American Muslims: A History Revealed.

Summary:
"American Muslims: A History Revealed is a series of six short documentary films that reveal and explore the early history of Muslims in America. The series is hosted by three leading American Muslim journalists: Malika Bilal, Aymann Ismail, and Asma Khalid. Over the course of the series, they travel the country to piece together stories spanning over 200 years."

Population Transfer from Gaza: A Short History from 1948 to 2025
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The Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, in partnership with the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, the African Studies Program, the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, and Georgetown University Qatar, is hosting Dr. Jehad Abusalim, Executive Director of the Institute for Palestine Studies-USA, for a talk titled “Population Transfer from Gaza: A Short History from 1948 to 2025” on Tuesday, March 18th at Noon.
Teachers' Book Club
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Righting Wrongs: Reflections on Battling Abusive Governments
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The Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, in partnership with the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, the African Studies Program, and the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, and Georgetown University Qatar is hosting Kenneth Roth, former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch and Visiting Professor at the Princeton School for Public and International Affairs, for a talk titled “Righting Wrongs: Reflections on Battling Abusive Governments”.
Imagining Queer Arab Futures: Intimacy, Pleasure, and Resistance
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The Art of Interviewing: The Case of Writing the Political History of Iraq
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Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

The Center for Contemporary Arab Studies invites you to a lecture by Dr. Toby Dodge, Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics. Dr. Toby Dodge will present on interviewing techniques for qualitative research, and how collecting data through interviews has shaped his work throughout his career. Dr. Dodge will specifically discuss Iraq as a case study. This lecture is part of the required CCAS curriculum in the course Studying the Arab World. This talk will be moderated by Dr. Joseph Sassoon.
In the Aftermath of the Syrian Revolution: A Conversation with Yassin Al-Haj Saleh and Muzna Dureid
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Join CCAS for an event on the aftermath of the Syrian revolution. CCAS Professor Dr. Marwa Daoudy will be in conversation with prominent Syrian intellectual and dissident, Yassin Al-Haj Saleh, and prominent Syrian activist Muzna Dureid to discuss the birth of a new Syria and the hopes and challenges lying ahead for Syrians.

Educators' Workshop at the Arab American National Museum – Palestine in the Classroom
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From Turtle Island to Palestine: Doing Ancient History in a Time of Genocide
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In this talk, Katherine Blouin will share some reflections on how some questions have informed the 2024 Routledge Handbook of Classics, Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory. Blouin will also reflect on what the last year has taught her about the intimate relationship between ancient history and modern settler colonialism, the moral duties of critical historians, and the disruptive potential of public-facing scholarship.
Conference: Call for Papers
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