National Resource Centers for Foreign Language, Area and International Studies

OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

Center for Middle Eastern Studies

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: FILM SCREENING: WALK ON WATER (Israel, 2004) a free public film (8/17/2007)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: Annual CMES Photography Exhibit opening at CMES, theme for 2007-2008 is PASSAGES OF TIME (8/24/2007)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: FILM SCREENING: SATIN ROUGE, (Tunisia, 2002) a free public film (8/31/2007)

CAMPUS EVENT: CMES BAZAAR AND TEA HOUR (9/7/2007)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: CMES FACULTY RETREAT (9/9/2007)

K-12 OUTREACH/ TEACHERS: TEACHING ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST. CMES Outreach Coordinator, Dr. Lisa Adeli, and CLAS Coordinator, Colin Deeds, gave a presentation to B. Martins Elementary Methods Class in CoE. (9/10/2007)

POSTSECONDARY OUTREACH: HOMETOWN DIPLOMATS PROGRAM: Dr. Bridget Gersten. (9/13/2007)

POSTSECONDARY OUTREACH: INTRODUCTION TO ISLAM. Lisa Adeli, CMES Outreach Coordinator, gave an extended presentation to a cultural diversity class at Cochise College in Sierra Vista, Arizona. (9/13/2007)

CAMPUS EVENT: CMES BAZAAR AND TEA HOUR (9/14/2007)

SPEAKERS BUREAU: Jessica Bohbat, graduate student in Near Eastern Studies, gave a presentation to 3 classes of gifted students at Sierra Middle School, Tucson, AZ, and answered their questions. (9/14/2007 - 9/18/2007)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: CONVERSATIONS ACROSS RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS. Dr. Reuven Firestone gave a presentation on the relationship of Judaism and Islam. (9/19/2007)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: BOOK READING. Author Laila Halaby read from her newest novel, Once in a Promised Land. (9/27/2007)

POST-SECONDARY OUTREACH: CMES STUDY ABROAD INFORMATION SESSION. (10/10/2007)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: RAYTHEON WORKSHOP. 8 faculty members/experts gave presentations. (10/12/2007)

K-12 OUTREACH/ TEACHERS: TEACH CYPRUS. Speaker: Julie Nedved. (10/16/2007)

POST-SECONDARY OUTREACH: KASIP INFORMATION SESSION. (10/16/2007)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: IRAQ, IRAN, AND THE U.S. Maggy Zanger, Dept. of Journalism, and Kamran Talattof, NES, made a guest appearance on the Arizona Illustrated news program on KUAT TV. (10/17/2007)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: WOMENS LEADERSHIP ROLES IN RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES. Janece Cohen, Maha T. Nassar, Susan Manker-Seale spoke about womens roles in formal worship in Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. (10/17/2007)

K-12 OUTREACH/ TEACHERS: TEACHING ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST. CMES Outreach Coordinator, Dr. Lisa Adeli, and CLAS Coordinator, Colin Deeds, gave a presentation to P. Teagers Elementary Methods class in the College of Education. (10/17/2007)

K-12 OUTREACH/ TEACHERS: CYPRUS AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION. Manuel Salmeron, gave a presentation to teachers at Artworks Academy. (10/17/2007)

K-12 OUTREACH/ TEACHERS: TEACH CYPRUS. Jennifer Turner spoke to teachers at Carl Hayden High School, Phoenix, AZ. (10/17/2007)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: FILM SCREENING: LE GRAND VOYAGE, a free public film (10/18/2007)

POST-SECONDARY OUTREACH: BUSTAN: ROOTING AND UPROOTING (CULTURAL AND POLITICAL LANDSCAPES OF THE NEGEV). A brown bag lunch with Devorah Brous and Raed Al-Mickawi. (10/18/2007)

K-12 OUTREACH/ TEACHERS: OIL AND WATER: NATURAL RESOURCES AND CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND LATIN AMERICA. Workshop. (10/20/2007)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: PUBLIC FORUM ON IRAQ, IRAN, AND THE U.S. (10/22/2007)

POSTSECONDARY OUTREACH: WRITING A CV. (10/23/2007)

K-12 OUTREACH/ TEACHERS: CMES Outreach Coordinator, Lisa Adeli held an information table at the annual Arizona Council for the Social Studies (ACSS) conference and the National Geographic Alliance conference (Geofest). (10/26/2007 - 10/27/2007)

K-12 OUTREACH/ TEACHERS: Presentation by 2007 Teach Cyprus participant Heather Kiser at Arizona Council for the Social Studies conference. (10/26/2007)

K-12 OUTREACH/ TEACHERS: Presentation by CMES Outreach Coordinator Lisa Adeli, and Teach Cyprus (2007) Participants Lynn Galvin and Kristina Burbank at the Arizona Council for the Social Studies conference. (10/26/2007)

K-12 OUTREACH/ TEACHERS: Presentation by 2005 Teach Cyprus participant Lori Rubino-Hare at the Arizona Geographic Alliance teachers workshop. (10/27/2007)

K-12 OUTREACH/ TEACHERS: Presentation by CMES Outreach coordinator Lisa Adeli at the Arizona Geographic Alliance GeoFest conference. (10/27/2007)

POSTSECONDARY OUTREACH: FLAS INFORMATION SESSION. (10/29/2007)

POSTSECONDARY OUTREACH: CYPRUS. Jacqui Nicholson, Teach Cyprus 2007 participant. (10/30/2007)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: BOOK READING. Author Ibtisam Barakat read from her memoir Tasting the Sky. (11/1/2007)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: FILM SCREENING: LE PLAFOND DE VERRE, a free public event. (11/1/2007)

K-12 OUTREACH/ TEACHERS: CMES Outreach Coordinator Lisa Adeli attended (and presented at) a Teaching Excellence and Achievement Conference at the University of Alabama, Huntsville (11/1/2007 - 11/4/2007)

K-12 OUTREACH/ STUDENTS: AUTHOR VISIT TO A SCHOOL. Author Ibtisam Barikat spoke at Townsend Middle School in Tucson, Arizona (11/2/2007)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: FILM SCREENING: LIONS TO LAMBS, a public event. (11/5/2007)

K-12 OUTREACH/ STUDENTS: AUTHOR VISIT TO A SCHOOL. Author Ibtisam Barikat spoke at Buena High School in Sierra Vista, Arizona. (11/5/2007)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: FILM SCREENING: Al Boum, a free public event. (11/7/2007)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: JEWISH, CHRISTIAN, AND ISLAMIC MYSTICISM. Speakers: David Graizbord, Alex Nava, and Scott Lucas. (11/7/2007)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: INTERNATIONAL PEACEMAKERS. Talk by Eliyahu McLean and Ghassan Manasra. (11/8/2007)

CAMPUS EVENT: 3RD ANNUAL MIDDLE EASTERN SHINDIG. Free event open to students and faculty. (11/13/2007)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION WEEK. Keynote speaker Anika Rahman. (11/13/2007)

LECTURE: THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE OF THE BIRZEIT REGION - AN OVERVIEW OF EXCAVATIONS AND SURVEYS IN PALESTINE. (11/13/2007)

POST-SECONDARY OUTREACH: APPLYING FOR GRADUATE PROGRAMS. (11/13/2007)

POST-SECONDARY OUTREACH: SPEAKER VISITED ARABIC CLUB (11/13/2007)

CAMPUS EVENT: CMES RECEPTION. (11/14/2007)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: FILM SCREENING: LA PETITE JERUSALEM, a free public event. (11/15/2007)

K-12 OUTREACH/ TEACHERS: TEACHING ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST. CMES Outreach Coordinator Lisa Adeli taught a session of Dr. Robinsons education class. (11/15/2007)

LECTURE: REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH IN YEMEN (11/15/2007)

POSTSECONDARY OUTREACH: CMES Outreach Coordinator Lisa Adeli gave a presentation to a journalism class. (11/26/2007)

LECTURE: JERUSALEM IN THE BYZANTINE PERIOD - NEW ASPECTS OF THE CARDO AND THE NEA CHURCH by Oren Gutfeld. (11/28/2007)

K-12 OUTREACH/ TEACHERS: TEACHING ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST. Lisa Adeli, gave a presentation in a pre-conference clinic at the NCSS annual conference (San Diego). (11/29/2007)

K-12 OUTREACH/ TEACHERS: USING INTERNATIONAL MUSIC IN THE HIGH SCHOOL WORLD HISTORY CLASSROOM. Lisa Adeli gave a presentation at the NCSS annual conference (San Diego). (11/30/2007)

K-12 OUTREACH/ TEACHERS: A MOROCCAN SPECIALTY - PIGEON PIE, CAMEL RIDES, AND MOSQUES. Cheryl Wiens gave a presentation at the NCSS annual conference (San Diego). (11/30/2007)

K-12 OUTREACH/ TEACHERS: CMES Outreach Coordinator, Lisa Adeli had an information booth at the annual NCSS Conference (San Diego). (11/30/2007 - 12/1/2007)

K-12 OUTREACH/ TEACHERS: CYPRUS: THE ISLAND OF FIVE FLAGS. Jessica Setzer presented a session on Cyprus to teachers at Charlotte County Day School, North Carolina. (12/3/2007)

CAMPUS OUTREACH: HENNA PARTY. A Middle Eastern cultural event for university students. (12/6/2007)

K-12 OUTREACH/ STUDENTS: INTRO. TO ISLAM. Lisa Adeli gave a presentation to a gifted class of 6th grade students at Old Vail Middle School. (12/6/2007)

SPEAKERS BUREAU: WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE EAST. Shauna Little gave a presentation to a college sociology class at Pima Community College, Tucson. (12/6/2007)

SPEAKERS BUREAU: THE NOROOZ HOLIDAY IN IRAN. May George gave a presentation to Kindergarten students at Mission View Elementary in Tucson. (12/14/2007)

K-12 OUTREACH/ TEACHERS: THE HOLOCAUST AND MODERN-DAY GENOCIDES. Outreach Coordinator, Lisa Adeli, ran the Tucson conference of a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum 3-city workshop. (1/11/2008)

K-12 OUTREACH/ STUDENTS: MIDDLE EASTERN CULTURES. May George gave demonstrations of Middle Eastern Culture at the Tucson Childrens Museum. (1/12/2008)

K-12 OUTREACH/ STUDENTS: INTRO. TO ISLAM. Outreach Coordinator, Lisa Adeli, spoke to all 6th grade classes at Apache Middle School, Sierra Vista. (1/16/2008)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: IRAQ: ENDGAME. Maggy Zanger spoke to a Great Decisions group in Tucson (1/25/2008)

K-12 OUTREACH/ TEACHERS: TEACHING ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST. Workshop. (1/26/2008)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: FILM SCREENING: RAI STORY. (2004). A free public screening. (1/29/2008)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: BOOK RELEASE CELEBRATION. Encounters with the Middle East. (1/31/2008)

LECTURE: EDWARD G. BROWNE IN THE PERSIAN MIRROR: ORIENTALISM AND MODERN IRANIAN NATIONALISM. Speaker: Farzin Vejdani. (1/31/2008)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: APOCALYPSE TODAY: THE END IN JEWISH, CHRISTIAN, AND ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVES. Speaker: J. Edward Wright. (2/6/2008)

LECTURE: THE NATIONS POET: FERDOWSI AND THE IRANIAN NATIONAL IMAGINATION. Speaker: Afshin Marashi. (2/7/2008)

K-12 OUTREACH/ TEACHERS: IRAN, IRAQ: WHATS THE DIFFERENCE? Lisa Adeli. (2/9/2008)

K-12 OUTREACH/ TEACHERS. CMES RESOURCES FOR ELEMENTARY TEACHERS. Lisa Adeli. (2/11/2008)

LECTURE: OBJECTS DARTE OR FLIGHTS OF FANCY: THE CULTURAL PRODUCTION OF PERSIAN RUGS. Speaker: Narges Erami. (2/11/2008)

LECTURE: RESEARCH IN AZERBAIJAN: NOTES FROM THE FIELD. Anna Senarslan. (2/12/2008)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: FILM SCREENING: WEST BANK STORY. (2006). A free public screening. (2/14/2008)

K-12 OUTREACH/ STUDENTS: UNDERSTANDING THE PALESTINIAN ISRAELI CONFLICT. Lisa Adeli (2/14/2008)

POST-SECONDARY OUTREACH: PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI CONFLICT. Presentations by graduate student Jeremy Palmer. (2/14/2008)

K-12 OUTREACH/ STUDENTS: IN PERFECT HARMONY MUSICAL PERFORMANCE by a Palestinian-Israeli ensemble. Santa Rita High School, Tucson. (2/15/2008)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: IN PERFECT HARMONY. Symposium, led by Dr. Maha Nassar and Rabbi Rami Shapiro. (2/16/2008 - 2/17/2008)

K-12 OUTREACH/ STUDENTS: WAKEFIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL. Reading to students - Jeremy Palmer. (2/19/2008)

LECTURE: LEARNING FROM TORTURE: NATIONAL INSECURITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN ISRAEL AND ITS NEIGHBORS. Speaker: Dr. Gershon Shafir. (2/19/2008)

LECTURE: TURKISH CHRISTIANS AND GERMAN MUSLIMS: CULTURAL RACISM, FEARS OF RELIGIOUS CONVERSION, AND NATIONAL SECURITY IN THE NEW EUROPE. Speaker: Esra Ozyurek. (2/19/2008)

LECTURE: HONORED BY THE GLORY OF ISLAM: RELIGIOUS CHANGE IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE IN THE 17TH CENTURY. Speaker: Marc Baer (2/20/2008)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: DEMOCRATIZATION IN THE ARAB WORLD: MOROCCOS FAILING TRANSITION. Speaker: Aboubakr Jamai. (2/25/2008)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: STAKES IN IRAQ. Dr. David Dunford spoke at Ft. Riley, KS. (2/25/2008)

POST-SECONDARY OUTREACH: CONVERSATION WITH ABOUBAKR JAMAI. (2/25/2008)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: FILM SCREENING: CHANNELS OF RAGE. (Israel, 2003). A free public screening. (2/26/2008)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: IS IRAQ VIABLE? Speaker: Kanan Makiya. (2/28/2008)

POST-SECONDARY OUTREACH/ TEACHERS: 2008 WESTERN CONSORTIUM MULTI-LANGUAGE WORKSHOP. (3/1/2008 - 3/3/2008)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: BOOK READING. Author Gary Nabhan discussed his book Arab/American: Landscape, Culture, and Cuisine in Two Great Deserts . (3/5/2008)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: DEMOCRATIC VIRTUES, PLURALISM, AND THE COMMON GOOD IN ISLAMIC THOUGHT. Speaker: Asma Afsaruddin. (3/5/2008)

K-12 OUTREACH/ TEACHERS: CMES RESOURCES FOR EDUCATORS. Speaker: Lisa Adeli. (3/5/2008)

POSTSECONDARY OUTREACH: MIDDLE EASTERN MANAGEMENT. Speaker: Liesl Riddle. (3/5/2008)

LECTURE: MIDDLE EAST MANAGEMENT VALUES: AN EMPIRICAL CHALLENGE OF THE ASSUMPTION OF HOMOGENEITY. Speaker: Liesl Riddle. (3/6/2008)

POSTSECONDARY OUTREACH: THE VEIL AND THE LAPTOP: GLOBALIZATIONS IMPACT ON MARKETING STRATEGY IN THE MIDDLE EAST. Speaker: Liesl Riddle. (3/7/2008)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: ARAB AND MIDDLE EASTERN CULTURE. Speaker: Anne Betteridge. (3/8/2008)

LECTURE: LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION IN THE ARAB REGION. Speaker: Mohammad Maamouri. (3/10/2008)

POST-SECONDARY OUTREACH. Mohammad Maamouri spoke in a linguistics class. (3/11/2008)

SPEAKERS BUREAU: EVERYDAY LIFE IN IRAN. Speaker: Shireen Keyl. (3/12/2008)

K-12 OUTREACH/ STUDENTS: THE POETRY OF TAHA MUHAMMAD. Speaker: Frances Sjoberg. (3/18/2008)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: SOUNDS OF SILENCE. A free public screening. (3/25/2008)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: POETRY READING. Taha Muhammad Ali and Peter Cole. (3/27/2008)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: NEGOTIATING THE FUTURE: A PALESTINIAN PERSPECTIVE ON THE PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI CONFLICT. Speaker: Afif Safieh. (3/28/2008)

K-12 OUTREACH/ STUDENTS: POETRY READING BY TAHA MUHAMMAD ALI. (3/28/2008)

K-12 OUTREACH/ TEACHERS: FULL-DAY WORKSHOP FROM ISTANBUL TO RIO: SLAVERY IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE. (3/29/2008)

SPEAKERS BUREAU: VIEWS OF PAKISTAN AND THE NOVEL OF IQBAL. Speaker: Seemin Raina. (3/31/2008)

POST-SECONDARY OUTREACH: TRADITIONAL MUSIC OF THE MIDDLE EAST. Angela Seidler spoke at a Pima Community College Class. (4/1/2008)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: THE RAGE OF THE LAMBS: THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMUNITY AND THE PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI CONFLICT. Speaker: Zaev Maoz. (4/2/2008)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: BEYOND COUNTERSTANCE: ART AS DIALOGUE. Speakers: Sama Alshaibi and Beth Krensky. (4/4/2008)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: LANGUAGE FAIR (4/12/2008)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: MEDIA COVERAGE OF MUSLIM AMERICANS. Speaker: Maha Nassar. (4/12/2008)

SPEAKERS BUREAU: MODERN EGYPT. Speaker: Jordan Van de Bunte. (4/14/2008)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: FILM SCREENING: RUMI RETURNING. A free public screening. (4/15/2008)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: HEAVY METAL ISLAM: ROCK, RELIGION, AND AND REBELLION AMONG CONTEMPORARY YOUTH IN THE MUSLIM WORLD. Speaker: Mark LeVine. (4/17/2008)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: BAND PERFORMANCE. BY TEHRANs 127, an underground rock band. (4/18/2008)

K-12 OUTREACH/ TEACHERS: USING LITERATURE ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST IN THE SOCIAL STUDIES CLASSROOM. Seemin Raina spoke at ACSS conference. (4/19/2008)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: ALL-AMERICAN MUSLIMS: FAITH AND FREEDOM IN THE 21ST CENTURY. Speaker: Maha Nassar. (4/23/2008)

LECTURE: ABD-AL-RAZZAQ AL-SANHURI AND THE POSSIBILITY OF A 'MODERN' ISLAMIC LAW. Speaker: Mohammad Fadel. (4/23/2008)

POST-SECONDARY OUTREACH: STUDENT DINNER WITH MOHAMMAD FADEL. (4/23/2008)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: CROSSING THE BRIDGE: THE SOUND OF ISTANBUL. A free public screening. (4/29/2008)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: CELEBRATING THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF ENCYCLOPEDIA IRANICA AND THE YEAR OF RUMI. (5/2/2008)

K-12 OUTREACH/ STUDENTS: VISIT TO VANADZOR. Speaker: Lisa Adeli. (5/7/2008)

CAMPUS EVENT: CMES RECEPTION. (5/8/2008)

K-12 OUTREACH/ TEACHERS: TEACHING ABOUT CYPRUS. Speaker: Katie Brandt. (5/15/2008)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: BETWEEN TWO NOTES. A free public film screening. (5/27/2008)

K-12 OUTREACH/ STUDENTS: INTRO. TO THE MIDDLE EAST - SUMMER INSTITUTE (6/1/2008 - 6/6/2008)

K-12 OUTREACH/ TEACHERS: TEACH ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST - SUMMER INSTITUTE. (6/1/2008 - 6/6/2008)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: THE SYRIAN BRIDE. A free public film screening. (6/2/2008)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: CHILDREN OF HEAVEN. A free public film screening. (6/3/2008)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: DABBKE GROUP. (6/4/2008)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: PERFORMANCE OF PERSIAN MUSIC. (6/5/2008)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: MIDDLE EASTERN BANQUET. (6/6/2008)

K-12 OUTREACH/ TEACHERS: PIMA COUNTY EDUCATORS FAIR. (6/11/2008)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: "CURRENT MIDDLE EAST ISSUES" Speakers: Lisa and Aman Adeli (7/2/2008)

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: "EDUCATION YOUNG PEOPLE ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST" Speakers: Lisa Adeli and Stephanie Medina (8/5/2008)

INTRO. TO THE MIDDLE EAST (8/11/2008 - 5/23/2009)

ISLAM (8/20/2008)

CENTER FOR MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES ANNUAL FACULTY RETREAT (8/24/2008)

COLORS AND CONTRASTS SHADES OF MEANING IN THE MIDDLE EAST (8/28/2008)

FILM SCREENING OUR TIMES Iran, 2002 A FREE PUBLIC FILM (9/3/2008)

WORKING WITH IRAQI REFUGEE YOUTH (9/8/2008)

OVERVIEW OF ISLAM (9/17/2008)

FILM SCREENING MY COUNTRY, MY COUNTRY Iraq, 2006 A FREE PUBLIC FILM (10/1/2008)

CONSPIRACY OR MISMANAGEMENT? KISSINGERS DIPLOMACY AND THE 1974 CRISIS in CYPRUS (10/7/2008)

REPORT ON ARIZONA ILLUSTRATED OF CMES PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION (10/8/2008)

DEVELOPING AND ASSESSING INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE (10/10/2008 - 10/11/2008)

ROCKY MOUNTAIN EUROPEAN SCHOLARS CONSORTIUM CONFERENCE (10/10/2008)

IRAN, IRAQ WHATS THE DIFFERENCE? (10/14/2008)

INDIGENES France, 2006 A FREE PUBLIC FILM (10/16/2008)

DICTATORS, DEMOCRATS, AND DEMONSTRATORS ELECTIONS IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST (10/18/2008)

SPOKESMAN OF THE SHARIAH WORKING AS A MUFTI IN EGYPT TODAY (10/20/2008)

IRAQI CHRISTIANS (10/22/2008)

NAVIGATING A MINEFIELD TEACHING ABOUT THE PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI CONFLICT (10/24/2008)

THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT A LESSON IN PERSPECTIVE (10/24/2008)

VISIT TO VANADZOR EXPERIENCES ON AN IREX TEACHERS PROGRAM TO ARMENIA (10/24/2008)

FRONTRUNNER Afghanistan, 2007 A FREE PUBLIC FILM (11/5/2008)

PRESERVING AFGHANISTANS CULTURAL HERITAGE (11/5/2008)

THE PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI CONFLICT (11/5/2008)

4th ANNUAL MIDDLE EASTERN SHINDIG (11/6/2008)

INFORMATION BOOTH AT THE ANNUAL NCSS CONFERENCE (11/14/2008 - 11/15/2008)

MUSLIM RESPONSES DURING THE HOLOCAUST (11/14/2008)

NAVIGATING A MINEFIELD TEACHING ABOUT THE PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI CONFLICT (11/14/2008)

A PIGEON AND A BOY BY MEIR SHALEV (11/17/2008)

CMES FLAS INFORMATION SESSION (11/17/2008)

MIDDLE EASTERN YOUTH LITERATURE (11/17/2008)

REEL BAD ARABS FILM VIEWING AND DISCUSSION (11/17/2008)

MIDDLE EASTERN YOUTH LITERATURE (11/18/2008)

THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION (11/18/2008)

THE KITE Lebanon, 2003, A FREE PUBLIC FILM (11/19/2008)

TEACHING ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST (11/25/2008)

CITIZEN BISHARA Israel, 2002 A FREE PUBLIC FILM (12/3/2008)

HENNA PARTY A MIDDLE EASTERN CULTURAL EVENT (12/11/2008)

THE CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EAST (12/12/2008)

TURMOIL IN GAZA (1/11/2009)

VISIT TO UA MIDDLE EAST COLLECTIONS (1/12/2009)

ROOTS OF THE GAZA WAR (1/13/2009)

POETIC VOICE EN/GENDERED MIHRI HATUNS RESISTANCE TO FEMININITY (1/15/2009)

MUSLIM RESPONSES DURING THE HOLOCAUST (1/21/2009)

PERFORMING THE NATION DISCOURSES OF SAHRAWI IDENTITY IN EXILE (1/22/2009)

CONTEMPORARY AFGHANISTAN (1/23/2009)

NEW HORIZONS OBAMA AND THE GLOBAL MEDIA (1/23/2009)

SYMPOSIUM ON WAR AND SOCIAL SCIENCES (1/24/2009)

CRISIS IN GAZA (1/28/2009)

NATION AND NARRATION IN THE BIBLE FEMINIST RE-READINGS OF JEPHTHAHS DAUGHTER (1/28/2009)

WHY HASNT SPAIN BANNED THE VEIL TOO? ARTICULATING MODES OF WOMANHOOD IN SPANISH PUBLIC DISCOURSE (1/29/2009)

YACOUBIAN BUILDING Egypt, 2006, a free public screening. (2/4/2009)

PRESSING FOR RETURN PALESTINIAN CITIZENS OF ISRAEL AND THE RIGHT OF RETURN DISCOURSE, 1948-1958 (2/5/2009)

TEACHING ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST (2/5/2009)

CONTEMPORARY IRAN (2/6/2009)

FROM ANTHROPOLOGIST PLAYING WITH AN EGG AND A STONE TO DIPLOMAT DEALING WITH DIGITAL DIPLOMACY (2/9/2009)

STUDENT LUNCHEON/MEETING WITH EVELYN EARLY (2/10/2009)

CULTURAL FESTIVAL (2/11/2009)

DABBKE FROM FOLK DANCE TO RESISTANCE (2/12/2009)

THE ORPHANED OTTOMAN FATHERLESSNESS, LOVE, AND NARCISSISM IN THE TANZIMAT NOVEL (2/12/2009)

THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST (2/16/2009 - 2/19/2009)

REEL BAD ARABS (2/18/2009)

MAPPING TURKISH IDENTITY TRACING CONVERSION AND FAMILY HISTORIES TO THE 1923 GREEK-TURKISH POPULATION EXCHANGE (2/19/2009)

MUSLIM RESPONSES DURING THE HOLOCAUST (2/19/2009)

SLAVES, WOMEN, AND OTHER ARISTOCRATS PATRONAGE AND THE HYBRID ELITE IN UMAYYAD AL-ANDALUS (2/19/2009)

STUDENT LUNCHEON/MEETING WITH ASLI IGSIZ (2/19/2009)

MAJORITIES AND MINORITIES IN ISRAEL AND THE COMPLEXITIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST (2/20/2009)

A GENEALOGY OF FREE TRADE ZONES IN THE PERSIAN GULF GEOPOLITICS OF GLOBAL INTEGRATION (2/25/2009)

THE ISLAMIC CITY (2/25/2009)

OTTOMAN MUSLIM FAMILIES AND REFORM OF THE PRIVATE DOMAIN IN THE LATE OTTOMAN EMPIRE (2/26/2009)

STUDENT LUNCHEON/MEETING WITH ARANG KESHAVARZIAN (2/26/2009)

HOW TO THINK ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST (2/27/2009)

THE CHANGE IN FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD FORMATION IN IRAN 1976-2006 (2/27/2009)

WALK ON WATER Israel, 2004, A FREE PUBLIC FILM (3/3/2009)

ARCHITECTURE AND POWER IN THE 16TH CENTURY DECCAN AN HISTORICAL TYPOLOGY (3/5/2009)

THE MIDDLE EAST IN FOCUS THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE (3/7/2009)

THE ABOLITION OF THE CALIPHATE AND THE DEBATES ABOUT ISLAMIC GOVERNANCE IN THE EARLY TURKISH REPUBLIC (3/12/2009)

WINDOWS OF THE SOUL MY JOURNEYS IN THE MUSLIM WORLD (3/12/2009)

TUCSON FESTIVAL OF BOOKS (3/14/2009 - 3/15/2009)

IRAQ (3/18/2009 - 3/20/2009)

EISENHOWER SERIES COLLEGE PROGRAM-U.S. ARMY WAR COLLEGE (3/23/2009)

CROSS DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES IN MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES (3/25/2009 - 3/27/2009)

REFUGEES OF THE MIDDLE EAST (3/25/2009)

MEDIA CAPITALISM COLLOQUIAL MASS CULTURE AND NATIONALISM IN EGYPT, 1904-1919 (3/26/2009)

CONTEMPORARY EGYPT AND ITS FUTURE (3/27/2009)

MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES IN IRAN (3/27/2009)

THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST (3/30/2009 - 4/3/2009)

MARMOULAK LIZARD Iran, 2004, A FREE PUBLIC FILM (4/1/2009)

AL-HAKIM AL-NAYSABURI AND THE COMPANIONS OF THE PROPHET AN ORIGINAL SUNNI VOICE IN THE SHII CENTURY (4/2/2009)

CMES SPONSORED AWARD AT NATIONAL HISTORY DAY ARIZONA STATE FINALS (4/4/2009)

THE MIDDLE EAST MYTHS VERSUS REALITIES (4/9/2009)

WORLD WAR I AND THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT SCHOLARLY RESEARCH AND ITS PITFALLS (4/9/2009)

NATION BUILDING AND OIL RIGHTS IN IRAQI KURDISTAN NAVIGATING THE IRAQI CONSTITUTION AND THE UNITED NATIONS (4/14/2009)

ISLAM AND THE FRENCH REPUBLIC THE AFFAIR OF THE MUSLIM HEADSCARF IN FRANCOPHONE LITERATURE (4/16/2009)

READING AT WAKEFIELD MIDDLE SCHOOL (4/17/2009)

PATTERNS OF CONQUEST SPANISH RULE IN THE AMERICAS AND OTTOMAN RULE IN THE BALKANS (4/18/2009)

MIDDLE EASTERN INFLUENCES ON THE BALKANS (4/22/2009)

ASTRONOMY AND ISLAMIC/PERSIAN THEORIES OF HISTORY (4/23/2009)

IRAQI REFUGEES IN JORDAN A SILENCE BROKEN (4/23/2009)

CULTURES IN CONTACT THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND THE BALKANS (4/25/2009)

CONTESTED FRONTIERS THE SYRIA, LEBANON, ISRAEL TRI-BORDER REGION IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE (5/1/2009)

VIRTUAL JEWS REVIVING COMMUNITY MEMORIES AMONG MOROCCAN JEWS IN CYBERSPACE (5/1/2009)

ISRAEL FESTIVAL 61 (5/3/2009)

THE PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI CONFLICT (5/3/2009 - 5/10/2009)

THREE MONKEYS Turkey, 2008, A FREE PUBLIC FILM (5/6/2009)

MIDDLE EASTERN HERITAGE AND CULTURE (5/9/2009)

KASHMIR, THE AFGHAN WAR, AND PAKISTANS DESCENT INTO CHAOS (5/21/2009)

KASHMIR, THE AFGHAN WAR, AND PAKISTANS DESCENT INTO CHAOS (5/26/2009)

KASHMIR, THE AFGHAN WAR, AND PAKISTANS DESCENT INTO CHAOS (5/28/2009)

PIMA COUNTY EDUCATORS FAIR (6/3/2009)

UNDERSTANDING THE HISTORY OF ISLAM IN BENGAL (6/6/2009)

AFGHANISTAN (6/8/2009 - 6/10/2009)

AFGHANISTAN FROM ANCIENT TIMES TO THE PRESENT (6/9/2009)

CONTEMPORARY AFGHANISTAN (6/9/2009)

AFGHANISTAN FROM ANCIENT TIMES TO THE PRESENT (6/10/2009)

KASHMIR, THE AFGHAN WAR, AND PAKISTANS DESCENT INTO CHAOS (6/10/2009)

TEACH OTTOMAN EMPIRE FULBRIGHT-HAYS GROUP PROJECTS ABROAD TRIP (6/28/2009 - 7/27/2009)

THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT (7/24/2009)

THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE (8/13/2009)

EXPERIENCES WITH THE FULBRIGHT-HAYS TEACH OTTOMAN EMPIRE PROGRAM (8/14/2009)

Introduction to the Middle East (8/17/2009 - 5/26/2010)

Travel to Tajikistan (8/20/2009)

CMES Annual Faculty Retreat (8/29/2009)

National History Day Latin American and Middle Eastern Topics and Resources (8/29/2009)

Arizona and Palestinian Water Management Policy Challenges Facing Water Managers and Potential Solutions (9/2/2009)

Film Screening West Beirut (9/2/2009)

FOOTSTEPS OF WATER: 19th Annual CMES Photography Exhibit (9/8/2009 - 5/14/2010)

Metacognitive Reading Strategies Used by Iranian Adults and Young Learners in Reading English and Persian Texts (9/9/2009)

Innovative Adaptations in the Islamic Republic of Iran Minority Mobilization and Collective Action in Education (9/11/2009)

Travels to Turkey and the Balkans (9/11/2009)

WRITINGS OUT OF TIME: THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA'S CUNEIFORM COLLECTION (9/14/2009 - 12/8/2009)

The Place of Islam in Interwar Iranian Nationalist Historiography (9/18/2009)

Calenders, Currencies, and Cures Math and Science Lessons from the Middle East and Latin America (9/19/2009)

Morocco (9/22/2009)

Footsteps of Water (9/24/2009)

Student luncheon with William Beeman (9/24/2009)

Taziyeh and the Dynamics of Social Protest in Iran (9/24/2009)

Helping the Public Understand the Middle East and the Islamic World (9/25/2009)

Teach Ottoman Empire closing conference (9/26/2009)

LESSON PLAN COMPETITION DEADLINE (9/28/2009)

Ancient Mesopotamian Cuneiform Tablet Archives, Scribes, and the Development of Libraries (10/1/2009)

ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIAN CUNEIFORM TABLET ARCHIVES, SCRIBES, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF LIBRARIES. Speaker: Anne Kilmer (10/1/2009)

History of Heaven (10/1/2009)

Justice and the Problem of Ottoman Decline (10/2/2009)

How History Shaped Literature and How Literature Changed History The Serbs and the 1389 Battle of Kosovo (10/3/2009)

More History Than We Can Stand Bosnia As a Borderland - and Battleground - between East and West (10/3/2009)

The Geography of Great Empires Holy Roman and Ottoman (10/3/2009)

Travel Abroad on a Teachers Budget (10/3/2009)

Angeleno Days An Arab-American Writer on Family, Place, and Politics (10/7/2009)

Children of Heaven Iran, 1997, a free public screening (10/7/2009)

FILM SCREENING: CHILDREN OF HEAVEN. A free public screening. (10/7/2009)

Credit and Hidden Interest in the Ancient Near East and Classic Mediterranean (10/9/2009)

CREDIT AND HIDDEN INTEREST IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND CLASSIC MEDITERRANEAN. Speaker: Thomas Park (10/9/2009)

The Lands of the Ottoman Empire (10/10/2009)

Tribalism in the Middle East (10/11/2009)

Teach Ottoman Empire (10/13/2009)

The Moral Values of Pre-Islamic Arabia (10/16/2009)

The Israel-Palestine Conundrum and Whether It Can Be Resolved (10/17/2009)

The Israel-Palestine Conundrum and Whether It Can Be Resolved (10/18/2009)

Roots of Literacy in the Ancient Near East (10/19/2009)

Egypt (10/20/2009)

Using Middle Eastern Content in the Elementary Math Classroom (10/21/2009)

Noise and Signal Sex, Lies, and Middle East Policy (10/23/2009)

Muslim Rescue and Resistance during the Holocaust (10/24/2009)

Navigating a Minefiled Teaching about the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict. Speaker Lisa Adeli. (10/24/2009)

The Israel-Palestine Conundrum and Whether It Can Be Resolved (10/26/2009)

Study Abroad in the Middle East. (10/27/2009)

Turkey-U.S. Challenging Relationship in a Difficult Time. (10/28/2009)

Archeological Preservation Efforts and Agonies in Northern Iraq, 2006. (10/29/2009)

Teaching about the Middle East. (10/29/2009)

National Middle East Language Resource Centers Hebrew Language Conference. (10/31/2009 - 11/1/2009)

The Obibi Era American-Israel Relations in the Age of Obama and Netanyahu. (11/3/2009)

Film Screening Turtles Can Fly Iraq, 2005, a free public screening. (11/4/2009)

Foreign Language and Area Studies FLAS Fellowships. (11/4/2009)

Foreign Language and Area Studies FLAS Fellowships. (11/5/2009)

Life and Death on the Estate of a Princess in 21st Century BCE Mesopotamia. (11/5/2009)

Irans June 12th Election and After Society, Gender, and Technology. (11/6/2009)

The Historical Context for Recent Protests A Century of Democratic Struggles in Iran. (11/6/2009)

Turkish Language and Culture. (11/6/2009)

My Prison, My Home One Womans Story of Captivity in Iran. (11/12/2009)

CMES information booth at the annual NCSS Conference Atlanta. (11/13/2009 - 11/14/2009)

Quadrilateral Verbs in Arabic Morphological Diversity and Phonological Coherence. (11/13/2009)

Resources on the Middle East for Teachers. (11/13/2009)

The Ottoman Empire and the Question of Human Rights. (11/13/2009)

The Stakes in Iraq (11/13/2009 - 11/15/2009)

Film Screening Turtles Can Fly Iraq, 2005, a free public screening. (11/14/2009)

Teach Ottoman Empire. (11/15/2009)

Film Screening Those Three Iran, 2007, a free public screening. (11/17/2009)

The Stakes in Iraq (11/17/2009 - 11/19/2009)

Israel and the Middle East. (11/18/2009)

Middle East Shindig, a free campus/public event. (11/19/2009)

Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan What Next? Speaker Richard Eaton. (11/19/2009)

Comparing the Roman and Ottoman Empires. (11/24/2009)

My Prison, My Home One Womans Story of Captivity in Iran. Arizona Illustrated interview with Haleh Esfandari. (11/24/2009)

Film Screening of Times and Winds Turkey, 2006, a free public screening. (12/2/2009)

The Stakes in Iraq (12/2/2009)

Expecting Mahdi, Encountering Zarathustra Politics of Representing the Pre-Islamic Legacy in Post-Islamic Revolutionary Persian Novels. (12/4/2009)

Middle East Update. (12/6/2009)

The Afghan War Today and Yesterday. (12/6/2009)

The Stakes in Iraq (12/9/2009)

The Rise and Fall of M. Mossadeq. (12/12/2009)

Teach Ottoman Empire. (12/14/2009)

Teach Ottoman Empire. (12/18/2009)

Travels in Turkey and the Balkans. (12/26/2009)

Afghanistan. (12/28/2009)

Incorporating the Ottoman Empire into the Curriculum. (1/6/2010)

The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict and Peace Movement. Panel. (1/8/2010)

A Comparison of Ottoman and Florentine Women. (1/9/2010)

Talking to the Media A Workshop on Stratetegic Communication. (1/15/2010)

From the First Afghan War to the Present Afghan War. (1/16/2010)

Obama and the Middle East One Year In. (1/20/2010)

Film screening of Inside Islam What a Billion Muslims Really Think 2010. A free public screening. (1/26/2010)

Counter Insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan. (1/29/2010)

Marjane Satrapis Persepolis Sketching Iran for the Rest of Us. (1/29/2010)

Second International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural Competence. 3-day workshop (1/29/2010 - 1/31/2010)

Islam (2/2/2010)

Film Screening Forget Baghdad Jews and Arabs - The Iraqi Connection Switzerland, 2003, a free public screening. (2/3/2010)

African Cultural Astronomy (2/4/2010)

Poetry Reading (2/4/2010)

Teaching about the Middle East and Promote Critical Thinking in the Secondary Classroom (2/5/2010)

The Justification of Concubinage As an Institution of Slavery in Islam. (2/5/2010)

Lesson plans on our website (2/7/2010)

Listserv membership - 2 teachers listservs (2/7/2010)

Listserv membership - 2 teachers listservs. (2/7/2010)

Israeli Feminist Theories on War and Peace. (2/12/2010)

Politics of Religious Freedom Minority Rights, Sovereignty, and gender. (2/12/2010)

Islamic Mysticism. (2/13/2010)

Reading with students at Wakefield Middle School. (2/15/2010)

Koranic Exegesis. (2/18/2010)

The Sky is the Limit The First Turkish Woman to Fly and the Implications of Her Flight. (2/19/2010)

Israel-Arizona Update. (2/21/2010)

Women Biographies in Modern Arabic Literature Palestinian Womens Narrative and an Alternative View of Homeland. (2/24/2010)

Journalism As Anthropology Stories from the Middle East. (2/25/2010)

Prison and Torture in Iran (2/26/2010)

Military Lawyers on the Battlefield An Empirical Account of International Law Compliance. (3/2/2010)

Teaching MSA and Colloquial Variety CV The Integration Approach Using Hypermedia. (3/2/2010 - 3/20/2010)

Takva One Mans Fear of God Turkey, 2006, a free public screening. (3/3/2010)

Comparative Versus Connective Histories of Transculturation and the Modeling of the Other in the Ottoman Education Reforms. (3/5/2010)

Islam and the Treatment of Muslim-Americans in the U.S. (3/6/2010)

Morocco A Study in Cultural Diversity. Teachers Workshop. (3/6/2010)

Israeli Democracy An Insider View. (3/10/2010)

Ambassador John Limbert speaks with NES students. (3/12/2010)

Negotiating with Iran Wrestling the Ghosts of History. (3/12/2010)

The Persian Gulf Region in U.S. Policy. (3/12/2010)

Tucson Festival of Books (3/13/2010 - 3/14/2010)

Armenia in a Time of Change. (3/21/2010)

History of Wine in the Early Islamic Period. (3/25/2010)

Journalistic Representation of Islam Print and Visual. (3/26/2010)

Middle East Myths Vs. Reality. (3/26/2010)

Intercultural Approaches to the Study of the Middle East and North Africa. (3/31/2010 - 4/2/2010)

The Long 20th Century The View from the Middle East. (4/2/2010)

David and Layla US, 2005, a free public screening. (4/7/2010)

The Conception of Alkaram Generosity in Lexicographic and Literary Sources. (4/8/2010)

Algeria (4/9/2010)

Hafezs Poetry Inquiry. (4/9/2010)

Imagining the Metropolis on the Islamic Periphery Commerce, Scholarship, and Architecture in 15TH C. Bidar and Timbuktu. (4/9/2010)

Muslim Resistance to the Holocaust Historical and Pedagogical Implications. (4/12/2010)

The Persian Gulf Region in U.S. Policy. (4/14/2010)

The Story of an Olympic Athlete - Victories and Challenges. (4/14/2010)

Language Beyond the Classroom Developing and Maintaining Advanced Proficiency. Western Consortium Language Workshop. (4/16/2010)

Welcome to Kurdistan Witnessing a Historic Transition in Iraq. (4/16/2010)

Arab and Yemeni Culture. Presenter Ahmed Al-Aqel. (4/17/2010 - 4/30/2010)

Between the Middle East and Africa Environmental Adaptation and Socio-Economic Traditions of Southern Morocco. (4/17/2010)

Islamic Television Broadcasting and the Question of Pluralism in Turkey. (4/23/2010)

Sexuality and Cultural Change The Presentation of Gender and Sex in Iranian Cinema. (4/30/2010)

The Stakes in Iraq (4/30/2010)

Moroccan Mosaic Focus on Literature and Art. Teachers workshop. (5/1/2010)

Travels in Turkey. (5/1/2010)

Middle East Myths Vs. Reality. (5/5/2010)

Under the Moonlight Iran, 2001, a free public screening. (5/5/2010)

Modern Egyptian Literature. (5/17/2010)

Pima Educators FAIR. (6/2/2010)

Arabic Literary Criticism in the 10th Century. (6/3/2010)

Ancient Arabic Manuscript Editing. (6/11/2010)

The Military Revolution in Asia Comparative History as World History. (6/25/2010)

Teach Morocco Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad. (6/28/2010 - 7/28/2010)

Al-Haneen Dabbke Dancing (7/9/2010)

Intro. to the Middle East. Summer institute program for high school students (7/9/2010 - 7/16/2010)

Teach about the Middle East Summer institute program for K-16 (7/9/2010 - 7/16/2010)

North African/Andalusian music performance (7/13/2010)

Israeli music performance (7/15/2010)

CMES summer institute reception (7/16/2010)

Intro. to the Middle East. (8/16/2010 - 8/25/2011)

Out of Africa Athens High School Teacher Travels with Educators to Morocco. Troy Times MI. (8/26/2010)

Get Funded! A half-day workshop for educators. (8/28/2010)

Get Funded! Half-day workshop for educators. (8/28/2010)

Film Screening Dunia Egypt,2005, a free public screening. (9/1/2010)

Palestinian Family. (9/7/2010)

International Literacy Festival. (9/8/2010)

Embellishments. Opening reception of the CMES photography exhibit. (9/16/2010)

CMES Annual Faculty Retreat. (9/26/2010)

A Comparative Study of the Advent of Modern Persian Literature in Central Asia and Iran in Early Twentieth Century. (9/30/2010)

Citizens and Subjects Human Rights in the Ottoman Empire. (10/2/2010)

What Every American Citizen Should Know about the Middle East. (10/2/2010)

Film Screening Bliss Turkey, 2007, a free public screening. (10/6/2010)

The State of Ata The Contested Imagery of Power in Turkey. (10/7/2010)

Afghanistan. (10/8/2010 - 10/9/2010)

Morocco Experience. (10/8/2010)

Arabic Language and Culture. (10/11/2010)

Morocco. (10/12/2010)

Reporting from the Frontline of the Israel-Arab Conflict. (10/14/2010)

Justice, Hierarchy and Political Legitimacy in Islamic Thought. (10/15/2010)

Greece-Turkey, 1992-Present From Conflict to Rapprochement. (10/21/2010)

Discussion on Kurdish issues. (10/22/2010)

Islam and Modernity in Turkey. (10/22/2010)

Photos of Morocco. University of Arizona Art Education Graduate Students Exhibition. (10/22/2010 - 10/29/2010)

Afghanistan (10/28/2010)

Citizens and Subjects Human Rights in the Ottoman Empire. (10/29/2010)

Human Rights and a Stateless People The Kurds Middle East. (10/29/2010)

Provincializing the Public Sphere The Press in Late Qajar and Early Pahlavi Iran. (10/29/2010)

IslamAn Introduction. Part1. (10/31/2010)

New Media and Media Repression in a Changing Middle East. (11/1/2010)

Turkish Resources at the University of Arizona. (11/1/2010)

The Culture and Arts of the Berbers of Morocco. (11/2/2010 - 12/3/2010)

Film Screening The Bubble Israel,2006, a free public screening. (11/3/2010)

From al-Ayyam al-Shamiyya to Bab al-Hara Imagined Histories in the TV Series of Bassam al-Malla, Arab Identity and Broadcast Capitalism. (11/4/2010)

From Denial to Acknowledgement Language Planning, Broadcast Media, and the Kurdish Language in Turkey. (11/5/2010)

Teach Morocco Connecting Culture, Language and History Within Your Curriculum. (11/5/2010)

The Imperial Bank of Persia and its Banking System A Notaphily Excursion. (11/5/2010)

Islam An Introduction. Part II. (11/7/2010)

Neighbor, Brother, Other Stories of Jewish and Muslim Relationships in Morocco. (11/7/2010)

FLAS Information Session. (11/8/2010)

From Beirut to Baghdad to Kabul Civil War, Sectarianism, Occupation, Resistance, and Counterinsurgency. (11/8/2010)

Quantifying and Funding Water for the Environment How Researchers Assist Practitioners. with Joanna Nadeau. (11/8/2010)

Reception for Barlaug fellows from North Africa. (11/8/2010)

FLAS Information Session. (11/9/2010)

History Teaching and the Formation of National Identity The Greek and Turkish Cases Compared. (11/9/2010)

Restoration Success Stories from Arizona. (11/9/2010)

Teaching about the Middle East. (11/9/2010)

A Palestinian Perspective. (11/10/2010)

Life in Algeria (11/10/2010)

Teach the Ottoman Empire Innovative Lessons for 21st Century Skills. (11/11/2010)

Water Management Complexities of the Lower Colorado River Basin The Case of the Imperial Irrigation District Water Transfer and the Salton Sea. (11/11/2010)

CMES information booth at the annual NCSS Conference Denver. (11/12/2010 - 11/13/2010)

Crucible of History The Balkans from Ottoman Times to Now. (11/12/2010)

Exploring Islam through Ottoman Mosque Design A Hands-On Student Project. (11/12/2010)

Human Rights and a Stateless People The Kurds Middle East. (11/12/2010)

The Myths and Facts about Palestinian-Israeli Negotiations. (11/12/2010)

Highly Caffeinated Interactive Lessons on the Ottoman Empire. (11/13/2010)

The Soup of the Bones From Folktales to Readers Theater. (11/13/2010)

Peace between Christians and Muslims in the Middle East. (11/14/2010)

FLAS Information Session. (11/15/2010)

FLAS Information Session. Speaker Christian Sinclair. (11/16/2010)

Film Screening My Tehran for Sale Iran, 2009, a free public screening. (11/17/2010)

Iran. (11/17/2010)

Continuity and Change in Iran. A 6-hour workshop for teachers. (11/20/2010)

Teaching about Morocco. (11/22/2010 - 11/29/2010)

From Bidar to Timbuktu Views from the Edge of the 15th Century MuslimWorld. (11/25/2010)

Film Screening War and Love in Kabul Afghanistan, 2009, a free public screening. (12/1/2010)

Three Maras and the Complexities of Religious Identities In 16th and 17th-Century Spain. (12/1/2010)

The Palestinian Minority in Israel and Their Relations with the Arab World. (12/2/2010)

Mediterraneans North Africa and Europe in an Age of Migration, c. 1800-1900. (12/3/2010)

Afghanistan. (12/9/2010)

CMES Henna Party. (12/9/2010)

Teach about Morocco. (12/10/2010)

Nasreddin Hoca Readers Theater Project. (1/1/2011 - 1/13/2011)

A Holocaust Educators Journey Muslim Holocaust Rescuers. (1/4/2011)

Transition in Iraq. (1/8/2011)

Visit to the University of Arizona campus. (1/10/2011)

Modalities of National Consciousness Territorial Nationalism Versus Religious Nationalism in Islamic Countries. (1/14/2011)

Film Screening The Faces of Israel documentary, a free public screening. With an introduction by director Amy Beth Oppenheimer. (1/20/2011)

Middle East-Themed Youth Literature. Workshop for school librarians. (1/20/2011)

Moroccan Issues. Part of a Global Studies mini-course. (1/20/2011 - 2/17/2011)

Youth, Political Activism and the Festivalization of Hip-hop Music in Morocco. (1/21/2011)

The Three Monotheistic Religions Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. (1/24/2011)

Various Middle East-related topics. (1/24/2011 - 1/28/2011)

Student lunch with Wadad Kadi. (1/25/2011)

The Primordial Covenant and Human History in the Quran. (1/26/2011)

Ankara, Aleppo, or Alexandria? Study Abroad in the Middle East and North Africa. (1/27/2011)

Morphological Awareness and Vocabulary Acquisition in Arabic as a Foreign Language. (1/27/2011)

New Media, New Repression The Silencing of Kurdish Voices in Syria. (1/29/2011)

Interviews on the unrest in Egypt. (1/30/2011)

Current Political Struggles in the Middle East. (2/2/2011)

Film Screening Offside Iran, 2007, a free public screening. (2/2/2011)

Transition in Iraq. (2/2/2011)

Dictatorship or Democracy? (2/4/2011)

Listserv membership - 2 K-12 teachers listservs and 1 listserv for college instructors. (2/7/2011)

Listserv membership - listserv for community members, listserv for university students/staff listserv for high school students. (2/7/2011)

Islam and the Arab World. (2/9/2011)

A Changing Middle East and Israel. (2/10/2011)

Film Screening The Secret of the Grain France, 2007, a free public screening. (2/10/2011)

Op-Eds and Policy Briefs Informing the Public and Policymakers. (2/11/2011)

Working in Non-Academic Public Policy Areas. Speaker Ali G. Scotten. (2/11/2011)

The Language of the Tunisian Revolution Slogans, Tweets and Facebook Posts. (2/17/2011)

Intertwined Identities Arabic, Spanish, and Hebrew As Intrinsic Elements in the Language, Music, and Stories of Moroccos Northern Jews. (2/21/2011)

Iran. (2/22/2011)

Poetry reading (2/24/2011)

Identity Politics in Jordan Implications for Regime Stability and Relations with Israel. (2/25/2011)

Layers of Civilization in the Middle East Case Study - Syria Teachers workshop. (2/26/2011)

Film screening and discussion with the director. Tea on the Axis of Evil. (2/28/2011)

Film Screening Ay Lav Yu Turkey 2010, a free public screening. (3/2/2011)

Meaningful and Bidirectional Change in Rural Child and Adolescent Language. (3/3/2011)

25th Annual Arabic Linguistics Symposium. (3/4/2011)

Hydropolitics War and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa. (3/4/2011)

Teaching about Genders and Sexualities in the Middle East. Workshop for Educators. (3/4/2011)

Verdicts of Science, Rulings of Faith Transsexuals in Iran. (3/4/2011)

Muslim Holocaust Rescuers. (3/9/2011)

Libya Oil, Guns, and the World Economy. SISMEC panel. (3/10/2011)

The Grand Mosque of Paris How Muslims Rescued Jews during the Holocaust. (3/11/2011)

Tucson Festival of Books. (3/11/2011 - 3/12/2011)

Contemporary Egypt. (3/17/2011)

No Ruz The Persian New Year. (3/20/2011)

Reading the Turkish Republic against Weimar Germany A Dual Critique of Modernity in Sabahattin Alis Krk Mantolu Madonna Die Madonna im Pelzmantel, 1943. (3/23/2011)

Banu Gokariksel - informal meeting with students. (3/24/2011)

Mauritanian Islamist Movement Roots and Development. (3/24/2011)

Disciplinary Specialization among the Earliest Muslims Historical Reality or Pious Fabrication? (3/25/2011)

Politics of Secularism, Piety and the Head Scarf. (3/25/2011)

Arab Culture and the Arts Case Study - Syria. (3/26/2011)

Current Trends in the Study of the Middle East, North Africa, and their Diasporas. (3/29/2011 - 3/31/2011)

Peace, Politics, and Plutonium An Israeli Insiders Look at Efforts to Prevent a Nuclear Iran and Advance Mideast Peace. (3/29/2011)

Leisurly Islam Youth Negotiations of Morality in Shiite South Beirut. (3/30/2011)

North Africas Intifadas and Democratic Transition Promises and Pitfalls. (4/1/2011)

Ezekiels Wheel and Sumero-Babylonian Divine War Chariots. (4/4/2011)

Film Screening Masquerades Algeria 2010, a free public screening. (4/6/2011)

Lines in the Sand Memory, Identity, and Rationalized Oppression in Arabophone Mauritania. (4/8/2011)

Film Screening The Light Thief Kyrgyzstan 2008, a free public screening. (4/12/2011)

Reform and the Youth of the Revolution Islam and the Middle East Today. (4/13/2011)

Iraqi Art and Architecture. (4/15/2011)

Morocco. (4/15/2011)

Performing France, Performing North Africa French-North African and Pied-Noir Cultural Associations in France. (4/15/2011)

Egypt Today. Speaker Dina Jadallah. (4/17/2011)

Saving Carthage. (4/19/2011)

Of Kosks, Kervanserais, and Kiosks Toward a Negative Hermeneutics of Turkish Germany. (4/22/2011)

The Role of Strategic Nonviolent Action in the Recent and Ongoing Civil Insurrections in the Middle East. (4/22/2011)

Armenia in a Time of Change. (4/29/2011)

New Media, New Repression The Silencing of Kurdish Voices in Syria. (4/29/2011)

CMES table at UA Teachers Day (4/30/2011)

The New Approach to Afghanistan. (5/1/2011)

Protest Movements across the Middle East U.S. Implications. (5/2/2011)

Film Screening The Bands Visit Israel 2007, a free public screening. (5/4/2011)

The Arab Spring The First Revolts. (5/8/2011)

The Arab Spring The Second Wave. (5/15/2011)

Women, Society, and Culture in Iran. (5/23/2011)

University of Arizona Resource Centers table at the Pima County FAIR for Educators. (6/21/2011)

Film screening Children of Heaven Iran, 1997. (7/13/2011)