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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