Upcoming Events
Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 8:00-9:00pm, MacMillan 117, Nadav Tamir, Consul General of the State of Israel to New England - Israel and the Changing Middle East - Sponsored by the Brown/RISD Hillel and Brown Students for Israel
Friday, March 19, 2010, 5:30pm, Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall, V. Y. Mudimbe, Duke University - In the House of Lybia: A Meditation - Presented by the Graduate Students of the Department of Comparative Literature - Sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature
Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 6:00pm, Wilson 102, Hala Nassar, Assistant Professor of Modern Arab Culture, Literature and Thought, Yale University - Sponsored by the Center for Language Studies and Middle East Studies
Thursday, March 25, 7pm, MacMillan 117 - Dr. Mustapha Barghouti - Palestine in Crisis. What We Can Learn from Gandhi - Sponsored by Middle East Studies
Monday, April 5, 2010, 12 noon, List Art Center, #110 - Hashim Sarkis, Harvard University - Beirut Normal - Sponsored by History of Art and Architecture; the Cogut Center for the Humanities; Urban Studies Program
Monday, April 12, 2010, 5pm, Joukowsky Forum, WIIS - Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive Director for Middle East/North Africa, Human Rights Watch - Human Rights in the Middle East - Sponsored by Middle East Studies
Wednesday, April 14, 2010, Ipek Celik, 12 noon, McKinney Conference Room, WIIS - Middle East Studies Brown Bag Series
Tuesday, April 27, 2010, tent., 6-8pm, Arabic Night - Sponsored by Center for Language Study and Middle East Studies
Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 12 noon, McKinney Conference Room, WIIS - Middle East Studies Brown Bag Series - Omur Harmansah - Houses, Ruins and Memory - an Architectural Ethnography in Eastern Turkey - Sponsored by Middle East Studies
Friday, April 30, 2010, 12 noon, List Art Center, #110 - Nasser Rabbat, M.I.T. - The Glamour Factor in the Cities of the Arabian Gulf - Sponsored by History of Art and Architecture; the Cogut Center for the Humanities; Urban Studies Program
Monday, May 3, 2010, 5pm (tent.) - Uzma Z. Rizvi, PhD., Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Urban Studies, Pratt Institute - Check Points: Reinterpreting Movement, Material, and Heritage in Iraq - Sponsored by Office of the Vice President for International Affairs, Deputy Provost's Office, Joukowsky Institute, MES
Spring 2010 tentative Lecture Series - New Perspectives in Arabic and Comparative Literature - Sponsored by Department of Comparative Literature
Upcoming Middle East Seminar Series
April 28 at 12:00 PM Omur Harmansah -- Houses, Ruins and Memory: An Architectural Ethnography in Eastern Turkey
Past Events
Monday, March 15, 2010, 8pm, Smith-Buonono, 106 - Yael. Zerubavel, Rutgers University - Revisiting Exile: Zionism, Cultural Diversity, and the Politics of Identity in Israel - Sponsored by Judaic Studies
Monday, March 15, 2010, 5:30pm, Brian Room, Maddock Alumni Center - Dwight F. Reynolds, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara - New Perspectives in Arabic and Comparative Literature - Lecture Series 'Arabic Autobiography and its European Counterparts' - Sponsored by Department of Comparative Literature
Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 7:30pm, MacMillan Hall, Starr Auditorium, Room 117 - A panel discussion: A Conversation with David Makovsky and Ghaith Al-Omari -- In Memory of Avi Schaefer -- Israel and Palestine: Stalemate and the Possibility of Peace
- Sponsored by Program in Judaic Studies, Middle East Studies, Common Ground, Justice and Equality in Palestine/Israel, Puzzle Peace, Brown Students for Israel, Israel on Campus Coalition
Monday, March 8, 2010, 7pm, McCormack Family Theater, 70 Brown Street – Incuhabitations II: Innovative Canadian Women's Poetry – Readings by Rachel Zolf & Andrea Actis
Monday, March 8, 2010, 5:30pm, Brian Room, Maddock Alumni Center - Christopher Stone, Hunter College, City U of NY - Nostalgia and Egyptian Cultural Icons: From Abdul Halim to Ahmad Zaki - Sponsored by Department of Comparative Literature
Thursday, March 4, 2010, 6pm, Joukowsky Forum, WIIS, Ronald W. Zweig, NY University - The Palestinian Refugee Issue in Israel-American Relations, to 1967
Sunday, February 28, and March 1, 2010 – Social Theory and the Study of Israelite Religion: Retrospect and Prospect conference – Sponsored by Judaic Studies
Friday, February 19, 2010 - 2pm, Joukowsky Forum - Rashid Khalidi, PhD. Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Department of History, Columbia University - Sowing Crisis: American Dominance and the Cold War in the Middle East
Thursday, February 18, 2010, 7pm, MacMillan Hall - Rashid Khalidi, Ph.D., Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Department of History, Columbia University - The Uncertain Future of Palestine - Sponsored by International Affairs, Watson Institute for International Studies, MES
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - 4pm, McKinney Conference Room, WIIS - Leyla Keough, Ph.D., Anthropology, Visiting Lecturer, Bridgewater State College- "Driven Women": Gendered Moral Economies of New Migrations to Turkey - Sponsored by MES
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - 5:30pm, Salomon Center 101 - Salman Rushdie - Public Events, Private Lives: Literature and Politics in the Modern World
CANCELLED Thursday, February 11, 2010 - 12:10pm, Hillel Chapel, 2nd floor (corner of Brown and Angell Streets) - Omnia El Shakry, Associate Professor of History, UC Davis - The Character of Incalculability: Statistics and the Construction of the Social in 20th Century Egypt
Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 6pm, RI Hall - Prof. Matthew Rutz - Ancient Libraries before Alexandria: Some Views from Western Asia - Sponsored by Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies
Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 4:30pm, Salomon 001 - Prof. Sherman "Abd al-Hakim" Jackson - Muslims, Islam(s), Race and Racial Agnosia in America - Sponsored by Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life, Department of Africana Studies, Brown Muslim Students Association, Heimark Fund, Imani Jubilee, Office of Institutional Diversity, Department of Religious Studies, Third World Center
Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 7pm, Joukowsky Forum, WIIS, Bruce Riedel, Presidential Advisor Assesses Afghanistan Strategy – Sponsored by Watson Institute for International Studies
Monday, November 30, 2009, 7:30pm, Joukowsky Forum, WIIS - Bruce Riedel '75, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution - Obama's War: Finding the Right Strategy - Sponsored by Watson Institute for International Studies
Monday, November 30, 2009, 5-6:30pm, No. Common Room, 232, WIIS - Middle East Studies Open House - Sponsored by MES
Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 2:30-4:00pm, Brown-RISD Hillel - Michael B. Oren, Israel's Ambassador to the United States, will deliver a public lecture on the history and status of the U.S.- Israel relationship - Sponsored by The Brown Students for Israel
Monday, November 23, 2009, 4:00pm, Joukowsky Forum, WIIS - Francis J. Ricciardone, Jr., Deputy Ambassador, American Embassy, Kabul, Afghanistan - What are we doing in Afghanistan? - Sponsored by Watson Institute for International Studies
Past Middle East Seminar Series
February 16, 2010 Leyla Keough -- 'Driven Women': Gendered Moral Economies of New Migrations to Turkey
October 28, 2009 Nacira Guénif-Soulimas -- Strangers at Home. A gender, ethnicity, and race Frenchness blend
September 21, 2009 FILM: Coffee Futures
April 30, 2009 Scheherezade Faramarzi -- Covering the Middle East
April 15, 2009 Muhsin Yusuf -- The Palestinian Arabs in Israel
March 31, 2009 Charles Butterworth -- What Might We Learn from al-Farabi about Plato and Aristotle with Respect to Lawgiving?
March 12, 2009 Salim Tamari -- End of the Ottoman Era in Palestine
November 14, 2008 Ali Ahmida -- Italian Fascism, a Lesser Evil? Colonial Libya 1929-1933
October 24, 2008 Ted Swedenburg -- The Benefits of G-had: Fun'Da'Mental and the Music of Global Chaos
September 16, 2008 Robert Blecher -- Update from (Divided) Palestine
April 23, 2008 Ian Klaus -- No Friends but the Mountains (and Small Oil): The Political Economy of Iraqi Kurdistan
May 9, 2007 Ken Stern -- Criticizing Israel Isn't Antisemitic, Except When It Is: How To Tell the Difference
May 3, 2007 The Study of the Middle East and Islam: Challenges after 9-11
March 15, 2007 Hugh Roberts -- Thinking Politically about Islamism
April 24, 2006 About Baghdad
April 18, 2006 9/11 and its Impact on Contemporary Arab Culture
April 17, 2006 The Politics of Translation; Bridges of Understanding? The New American Interest in Arts from the Middle East
April 3, 2006 The Question of Palestine (Again); Citizenship as a Category of Exclusion: The Case of Israel
March 20, 2006 International Humanitarian Law and 'Wars on Terror': A Comparative Analysis of Israeli and American Doctrines and Policies
March 13, 2006 The Demise and Strange Afterlife of the Bush Democracy Doctrine
February 6, 2006 Democracy and Diplomacy: Palestinian and Israeli Elections after Gaza