News Spring 2013
Please come and meet Daoud Nasser, a Palestinian Christian Farmer who has turnedhis farm into an organic learning center for peace and reconciliation while he has struggled to keep the land.
Don't miss investigative journalist and Nation Books author Jeremy Scahill at The New School in New York City on May 31st. Scahill will be in conversation with Spencer Ackerman, a national security reporter and blogger for Wired magazine.
A devised performance based on the testimonies of Greek refugees of Asia Minor (1922) USA premiere
Turkish Program Lecture Series presents Words & Acts: Scripture vs. Universe, with Yamina Bougenaya.
A conference led by Souleymane Bachir Diagne. How and why was the commandment of prayer established? What is its significance in connection with the Prophet's Ascent (Mi'raj)? How should we comprehend the time of prayer as different from the serial time of our works and days? How should we understand also the different times of the five prayers?
A talk with Professor Abdou Filali-Ansary, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations, Aga Khan University, UK.
Join us for a conversation with Wheeler Thackston, Professor of Persian and other Near Eastern Languages & Literature Harvard University.
Columbia University Department of Anthropology Franz Boas Seminar presentsMayssun Succarie, Arcapita Visiting Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Columbia University
Please join us for a panel discussion with videos and presentations by representatives from the Jenin Freedom Theatre in Palestine. Distinguished panelists include Faisal Abu Alheja, Ahmad Al-Rokh and Gary English.
A discussion with Richard Payne, assistant professor in Mount Holyoke College's Department of History and a visiting research scholar at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (NYU).
Dr. Seyed Masoud Noori, Former Faculty Member at the Center for Human Rights Studies at Mofid University in Qom, Iran and currently a Visiting Scholar at Emory Law, will explain the relationship between Shariah and state law in Muslim-majority countries' constitutions approved since 2000...
Join us for a screening of short films and videos followed by a q&a with Syrian playwright and activist Mohammad Al Attar and theatre director Eyad Houssami, editor of Doomed by Hope: Essays on Arab Theatre.
In December of 2008 Israel launched a devastating attack on Gaza. A month of bullets, bombs, rockets, white phosphorus, tanks and bulldozers left 1400, mostly civilians, dead and this section of Occupied Palestine in rubble. Where Should the Birds Fly? is a compelling and moving Palestinian film based on the story of two remarkable young women, the future of Palestine, who personify the struggle to maintain humanity, humor and hope, to find some degree of normality in the brutal abnormality that has been imposed on them and Palestinians.
Join us for a talk with former Ambassador Richard Murphy. Murphy has been following Middle Eastern developments for over 50 years. His assignments in the US Foreign Service included service in Aleppo, Syria, Jidda, Saudi Arabia and then Amman, Jordan during the 1967 war.
The French Graduate Students Association is pleased to announce the 2013 Student Symposium, exploring humanism and its critics.
Co-sponsored by NYU's departments of Cinema Studies and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies; African Film Festival, Inc.; and with the support of the Algerian Embassy in DC, and General Consulate in NY.
A violin prodigy, she studied with Isaac Stern in Tel Aviv, before immigrating to the US where she developed her signature style.
Join us as Nursuna Memeca discusses what it mean to be a woman in parliament and the challenges and risks faced by women in government.
Please join the Center for Palestine Studies for a book discussion with Ahmad Amara, John Sheehan and Brinkley Messick. Indigenous (in)Justice addresses property issues related to indigenous Palestinians and Bedouin Arabs in the Naqab/Negev from a comparative and international legal perspective.
Join critically acclaimed historian Rashid Khalidi, as he discusses his latest publication Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East.
Seeking Palestine is a newly published collection of fifteen innovative and outstanding Palestinian writers, essayists, poets, novelists, critics, artists, and memoirists responding with their reflections, experiences, memories and polemics.
Join us for a discussion with Dr. Fida Adely on her new book: Gendered Paradoxes: Educating Jordanian Women in Nation, Faith, and Progress. Dr. Adely is an Assistant Professor at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown.
The martyrdom of Husayn - the grandson of Prophet Muhammad - in the Battle of Karbala on the tenth of Muharram (Ashura) 680 AD has been seen as a defining moment in the history of Islam, particularly within the Shi'i community. Contemporary Social Movements and the Karbala Paradigm is an event that will discuss the impact that Karbala has had on modern societies, Muslim and non-Muslim alike.
Join us for the book launch of Sketches of Iran--a collection of drawings, portraits and editorial cartoons on human rights themes by internationally acclaimed Iranian artists, accompanied by commentary and personal narratives by leading Iranian scholars, activists, journalists, writers, filmmakers and family members of prisoners of conscience.
Midway through Camus's classic The Stranger, an unnamed Arab is killed. Leaping from this moment and working backwards through possible histories of tangled romance, ethnic conflict, and random violence, playwright Betty Shamieh has crafted a new play inspired by this unknown character.