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.
Kinloch Commons for Critical Pedagogy and Leadership at the University of Pittsburgh
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
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, Department of Gender & Women’s Studies, Department of Anthropology, Center for Race and Gender, Department of Ethnic Studies
Announced by the University of Pittsburgh
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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.
Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS), Georgetown University Qatar, and the African Studies Program, Georgetown University
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).
The Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID) invites scholars, policymakers, and practitioners to submit papers for its 23rd Annual Conference. This year’s theme examines the urgent need to defend democracy in Muslim-majority countries amid rising authoritarianism worldwide. We seek submissions that explore the role of democratic governance in ensuring political stability, economic development, and human rights.
The Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center at Indiana University Bloomington offers free interactive lectures via video conferencing. You can select a pre-designed program, or contact them to customize a presentation for your needs. Several of them list “Adult Learners” as an audience, so I imagine these would be suitable for college classroom instruction. You can find contact info and see the pre-designed programs at https://iaunrc.indiana.edu/resources/video-conferencing.html.
