Book talk with Michael Allan, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Cinema Studies at the University of Oregon.
A screening of My Father and Qaddafi, a documentary by Jihan K, followed by a panel with the filmmaker and Columbia faculty.
Join the Middle East Institute and the Center for the Study of Muslim Societies for our latest Sharīʿa Workshop with Mohamed Iqbal Mitiche. We will discuss his paper “Toward a Fiqh of Spiritual Abuse: A Methodological Intervention.”
Featuring Naama Harel (Columbia) in conversation with Brian Boyd (Columbia). Hosted by Hamid Dabashi (Columbia).
The symposium brings together scholars working across and beyond Middle East and North Africa studies to explore how discursive fields are constituted, and to ask what becomes possible when we read across and against established disciplinary and regional boundaries.
A lecture with Samuel Sami Everett titled “Maghrebi Jewish Return,” drawing on his new book The Jewish Maghreb.
Join Columbia Global Center Amman and the Middle East Institute for the Morningside Campus in-person watch party of the live webinar A System Under Strain: Can Refugee Protection Keep Pace with Global Displacement?, followed by a moderated discussion.
Join us for a panel discussion with Judith Butler (UC Berkeley), Emily Raboteau (CCNY), and Alisa Solomon (Columbia University) with opening remarks from Hamid Dabashi (Columbia University) and moderated by Debashree Mukherjee (Columbia University), celebrating the release of Gil Z. Hochberg's memoir, My Father, the Messiah (Duke 2025.)
A lecture with Moshe Behar (University of Manchester) titled “Settler Colonial Studies, Terminations of Colonialism, and Ethnonationalism: An Edward Saidian consideration?”
MEI and CSMS present a book talk with Farid Hafez (William & Mary) for his latest work titled Governing Islam in Austria and Germany.
Featuring Khatchig Mouradian (Columbia) in conversation with Louis Fishman (Brookline College). Hosted by Hamid Dabashi (Columbia)
Join the Middle East Institute and the Center for the Study of Muslim Societies for our latest Sharīʿa Workshop with Guy Burak. We will discuss his paper “Notes on Şöhre ve Tevâtur/Shuhra wa-Tawātur in the Ottoman Judicial System.”
Join Altea Pericoli for a talk about her new book, Islamic Aid and Gulf States in Contemporary Crises.
On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo by Julia Elyachar is a sweeping analysis of the coloniality that shaped—and blocked—sovereign futures for those dubbed barbarian and semicivilized in the former Ottoman Empire.
Wael Hallaq (Columbia) in conversation with Omar Farahat (McGill). Opening and Concluding Remarks Hamid Dabashi (Columbia).
Book talk with authors Mike Omer-Man and Sarah Leah Whitson, Moderated by professor Lisa Anderson.
Book Talk with Daryoush Mohammed Poor. Moderated by Hamid Dabashi.
Kathryn Spellman Poots and Nadje Al-Ali will be in conversation with the Turkish-Kurdish artist Fatma Bucak as part of their series on gender, art and body politics with reference to the Middle east and its diasporas.
A Philosophical Treatise on Muslim Politics: Wisdom and Governance is an English translation of Hairi Yazdi’s Ḥikmat wa ḥukūmat by Daryoush Mohammed Poor. This event will be moderated by Hamid Dabashi.
Please join us for a discussion of the recently published report, 'Our Genocide' by The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, B'tselem. Speakers Yuli Novak and Kareem Jubran will be joined by Professor Diana Greenwald to discuss the research and its significance in the fight against genocide in Palestine.
Book Talk with Amy Malek, Associate Professor of Anthropology and American Studies at William & Mary College.
The Middle East Institute is proud to be associated with the “Water and Oil” exhibition at the European Cultural Center’s “Time Space Existence” architecture biennial.
Join us on our next Sharia Workshop with Professor Devin Stewart to discuss the paper “Taqīyah and Tawriyah: Dissimulation and the Art of Ambiguity”
Join our upcoming Islamic History Workshop and explore Singapore's Islamic Pasts: Alexanders in an Island Below the Winds.
Join us for this year’s Turath Film Event presenting experimental works on indigeneity and displacement through representations of landscapes and their ecologies.
Join us for a book talk with Professor C. Cehyun Arslan on “The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures” accompanied Professor Yaseen Noorani .
Join us for the 9th edition of the New York Forum of Amazigh Film - "Memory & Resilience." Sign up now for the upcoming screening.
Join us for a book talk with Beeta Baghoolizadeh (Princeton University) on her recently published book, The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran;
Join us for a discussion with Tanya Habjouqa, Ameera Harouda, Gideon Levy, and Gilles Paris, moderated by David Remnick on War Reporting and the Case of Gaza & Israel.
Join us for a book talk with Professor Annette Damayanti Lienau as she discusses her work, "Sacred Language, Vernacular Difference: Global Arabic and Counter-Imperial Literatures," accompanied by Professor Rebecca Johnson.
Join us for a the Film Screening of the “INFILTRATORS” followed by a discussion with Director Khaled Jarrar & Dr Ali Musleh.
Join us for “Holding My Brother: Resistance as Affective Practice in Contemporary Palestinian Art,” a talk by Alessandra Amin (UPenn) on 18 March 2024 at 6pm.
Join us for a talk with Professor Elisabetta Benigni and Professor Pier Mattia Tommasino as they explore the influence of the Divine Comedy on Arabic literature and intellectual debates in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Join our upcoming Islamic History Workshop and delve into the intricacies of early modern Persian chronicles, dissecting the artistry of “dibachah” and unraveling the mysteries of “khatimah”.
Join us every Wednesday in Knox 207 for our Persian Conversation Circle. All levels welcome!
Jean-Pierre Filiu, in conversation with Rashid Khalidi
Join us for a discussion on the History of Gaza
Join us to explore the Material Culture in the Poetry of Sā’eb Tabrizi!
Join us for this book talk about Naṣr Allāh Munshī's Persian translation/adaptation of Kalīla and Dimna, written in the 1140s CE and dedicated to the Ghaznavid sultan Bahrāmshāh.
Join us for an information session to learn more about the MA in Islamic Studies and the Dual MA Degree with Aga Khan University.
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