OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

Gustav E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies


  • Middle Eastern Americans On the Move (9/17/2007 - 12/21/2007)
  • The Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Possibility of a Two-State Solution (10/1/2007)
  • What Islam, Whose Islam? The Struggle for Women's Rights Within a Religious Framework: The Experience of Sisters in Islam (10/4/2007)
  • Christians in Safavid Iran: Between Tolerance and Oppression (10/8/2007)
  • It's Not Either/Or: The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy (10/15/2007)
  • International Institute/ Center for Near Eastern Studies Open House (10/16/2007)
  • Shari`a law, Islamic State: An Historical Anthropology (10/17/2007)
  • Studying Modern Middle East History: Trajectories and Challenges (10/18/2007)
  • Iran Under President Ahmadinejad (10/21/2007)
  • The Iran-U.S. Conflict and Its Effects in Iran: Internal, Foreign and Gender Policies (10/22/2007)
  • From Assyria to Zoroaster: A Journey Through the World of Middle Eastern-American Publications (10/24/2007)
  • Multisite Ethnography: Hyderabadi Identities Reconfigured (10/25/2007)
  • Iran, Seven Faces of a Civilization (10/27/2007)
  • Tender Is The Wolf (Ors El Dhib) (10/31/2007)
  • American Film Institute (AFI) Film Festival 2007 - Middle Eastern Films (11/1/2007 - 11/11/2007)
  • Arab Film Festival (11/1/2007)
  • Turkish Christians and German Muslims: Religious Conversion and National Security in the New Europe (11/1/2007)
  • Pots and Parchments: An Archaeological Reading of Medieval Arabic Historiography on Morocco (11/6/2007)
  • Headscarves and Hotpants: Islam, Secularism and Women's Fashion in Southeastern Europe (11/8/2007)
  • Restoration of the Iraq Marshlands (11/9/2007)
  • Jihadi Islam Conference (11/10/2007)
  • Roshanfekri-ye modern Iran va na-khorsandiha-ye aan (11/18/2007)
  • A New Approach to the Hermeneutics of Hafiz (11/19/2007)
  • Middle Eastern American Studies: The Emergence of a Field (11/26/2007)
  • Photographing Middle Eastern Americans: Iranians, Israelis, and Yemenis (11/29/2007)
  • Islam Re-Observed: Clifford Geertz in Morocco (12/6/2007 - 12/9/2007)
  • Spirit of Sefrou (12/8/2007)
  • Jasmine and Stars: Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran (12/9/2007 - 12/11/2007)
  • Eentekhabat Majlis Hashtom va tagyir arayesh siyasi dar Iran (The 8th Parliamentary Elections and Political Changes in Iran) (1/13/2008)
  • The Iranian Regime Structure and Women's Rights (1/14/2008)
  • The Historic Cairo Restoration Program: Recent Observations (1/16/2008)
  • Calligraphers from the Ottoman Empire and Eastern Europe (1/29/2008)
  • The Idea of the Arab Jew (2/3/2008 - 2/4/2008)
  • America before Anti-Americanism: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East (2/7/2008)
  • JMEWS Research Roundtable (2/13/2008)
  • The United States and Iran: Missed Opportunities and Future Prospects for Reconciliation (2/14/2008)
  • Sixth Annual Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies (2/15/2008)
  • Religious Disputation and Democratic Constitutionalism: The Enduring Legacy of the Constitutional Revolution on the Struggle for Democracy in Iran (2/19/2008)
  • Off the Radar Screen: The Unacknowledged Struggle to Protect Kosova's Islamic Traditions (2/21/2008)
  • Babak and the End of Late Antiquity in Iran (2/25/2008)
  • Owning the Past: Archaeology and Cultural Patrimony in the Late Ottoman Empire (2/29/2008 - 3/1/2008)
  • Democracy and Political Participation in the Islamic Republic (3/2/2008)
  • How the Iranian Constitution Secularized Islam (3/3/2008)
  • The Place of Balkan Muslims in the Shaping of European Islam (3/3/2008)
  • Rioting Against Disorder: The Moral Polity of the Algerian Crowd (3/4/2008)
  • The Marshes of Mesopotamia: Dried, Restored, Will it Last? (4/3/2008)
  • No Sex in the City: Personal Accounts of a Generation of Women in the PLO (4/8/2008)
  • Networks and the Mobility of European Visual Culture: Reinterpretations in Early Modern Iran and Beyond (4/10/2008)
  • Emroozeh Chegooneh Mitavan Irani Bood (How to be an Iranian Today) (4/13/2008)
  • The Changing Concept of the "Intellectual" in Iran Today (4/14/2008)
  • Killing Memory: Ethnicity, Religion and the Destruction of Culture in the Balkan Wars of the 1990s (4/15/2008)
  • Novels and Iranian History: Beyond Diaspora (4/16/2008)
  • Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari`a (4/28/2008)
  • The Politics of UN Peacekeeping: Reflections on Three Decades of UNIFIL in Lebanon (4/29/2008)
  • Where Bernard Lewis Went Wrong: Rethinking the Relationship Between Islam and Secularism (5/1/2008)
  • Caught Between Two Worlds and Voices (5/2/2008)
  • Slim and the History of Algerian Cartoons (5/8/2008)
  • Visualizing the Sacred: Islam on Film (5/9/2008 - 6/9/2008)
  • Tarikhe (Ejtemayi ve Farhangi) Akasi dar Iran (5/11/2008)
  • Antoin Sevruguin and the Art of Photography in Nineteenth Century Iran (5/13/2008)
  • Middle Eastern Communities in Latin America (5/15/2008)
  • Married To Another Man: Israel's Dilemma in Palestine (5/19/2008)
  • Autobiography and the Great War: Rethinking Arabo-Turkish Identity after Gallipoli (5/27/2008)
  • Connected Revolutions: Armenians and the Russian, Ottoman, and Iranian Revolutions in the Early Twentieth Century (5/28/2008)
  • Four Wives - One Man (6/27/2008)
  • North Africa and Its Neighbors: A Dynamic Crossroads (7/19/2008 - 7/31/2008)
  • North African Vibes: Music from Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia (7/31/2008)
  • North African Migration (2/12/2009)
  • Americas North Africa (3/2/2009 - 9/18/2009)
  • Road to Morocco, Screening (3/3/2009)
  • TALK OF DARKNESS HUMAN RIGHTS IN MOROCCO (3/10/2009)
  • Global Perspectives on Youth and Violence (3/12/2009)
  • Cartographies of Islam in the Americas Migrants, Converts and Devotion (4/3/2009)
  • Between the Jew and Arab The Lost Voice of Simon Rawidowicz (4/7/2009)
  • Symposium on Women in Conflict Zones (4/10/2009)
  • Persian Poetry in Diaspora (4/12/2009)
  • The Hispanic as Crypto-Moor (4/14/2009)
  • Sex, Drugs, and Rock n Roll in the Islamic Republic of Iran Spatial and Temporal Framings of Sexuality and Sociality in Post-Revolution Iran (4/15/2009)
  • Iranian Writers Roundtable (4/18/2009)
  • Jews, Arabs, and Government Officials Power Relations Inside Israel (4/20/2009)
  • The Clash of Interpretation (4/21/2009)
  • Palestine Inside Out A Everyday Occupation (4/23/2009)
  • Foucault and Middle East Studies A Conference (4/28/2009)
  • Free Screening of Morocco and The Garden of Allah (5/1/2009)
  • From Casablanca to Sahara Hollywoods North Africa (5/1/2009 - 6/6/2009)
  • Free Screening of The Woman I Stole and Casbah (5/3/2009)
  • Sex-in-Change Configurations of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Iran (5/3/2009)
  • Authoritarian Pathways Trajectories of State Building in the Arab World (5/8/2009)
  • Free Screening of Beau Geste (5/9/2009)
  • Al-Andalus and the Maghreb Cultural Hybridity and Postcolonial Identities (5/12/2009)
  • Re-Imagining International Law for a New Politics of Human Rights (5/13/2009)
  • Sneak Preview - New Muslim Cool (5/13/2009)
  • Free Screening of Road to Morocco and Beau Hunks (5/15/2009)
  • Sexual Politics in Modern Iran (5/19/2009)
  • Free Screening - Standard Operating Procedure (5/20/2009)
  • Etnic and Religious Minorities in Iran Realities and Policy Issues, Past and Present (5/22/2009)
  • Bam 6.6 Humanity has no borders (5/24/2009)
  • Free Screening of Under Two Flags (5/31/2009)
  • Free Screening of Casablanca, Sahara, and The Cats Bah (6/6/2009)
  • Democratic Thoughts within Islamic Tradition (6/7/2009)
  • Heritage Language Teacher WorkshopSTARTALK/NHLRC TEACHER WORKSHOP FOCUS ON HERITAGE LANGUAGES (7/20/2009 - 7/24/2009)
  • Its a Matter of Taste- K-12 Summer Workshop (7/25/2009 - 8/6/2009)
  • Politics and Violence in Israel/Palestine Past, Present and Future (9/30/2009)
  • An Arab American Grows Up in L.A (10/1/2009)
  • Dreamers in Paradise The Rise and Fall of a New Holy Site in Israel (10/5/2009)
  • The Messianic Self Guidelines for a Comparative Analysis of Habad and Bratslav Hasidic Groups (10/6/2009)
  • Ottoman Legacies Then and Now (10/8/2009)
  • Up Close and Personal Iranian Filmmakers in their Own Words (10/9/2009 - 10/16/2009)
  • The Invention of the Jewish People (10/12/2009)
  • What Price the Islamic Republic? The Meanings and Implications of the 6/12 Election (10/13/2009)
  • Islam and the Army in Colonial India (10/14/2009)
  • Forgotten Voices (10/15/2009)
  • Garbage Dreams, a selection from the Arab Film Festival (10/20/2009)
  • The Politics of Marriage in Contemporary Iran (10/23/2009 - 10/25/2009)
  • My Prison, My Home One Womans Story of Captivity in Iran (10/26/2009)
  • Invasion is a Structure not an Event Settler Colonialism Past and Present (10/29/2009 - 10/30/2009)
  • About Elly Darbarye Elly (11/2/2009)
  • The Israeli Winter Onslaught on Gaza (11/2/2009)
  • The Lost Worlds of Hanna Levy Hass (11/3/2009)
  • The Legacy of Mahmoud Darwish A Conference and Concert (11/5/2009)
  • Reflections on Sanctioning in Islamic Criminal Law in Iran (11/6/2009 - 11/7/2009)
  • Celebrating Ethnicity Finding Common Ground (11/10/2009)
  • Arabs, Turks, and Europeans in the Early Modern Mediterranean (11/12/2009)
  • A lecture by Professor Nabil Matar, University of Minnesota (11/13/2009)
  • The Goldstone Report and International Law - Three Perspectives (11/16/2009 - 2/8/2010)
  • Jews from Libya Cross-currents and Concretizations of Identity in Israel Today (12/1/2009)
  • Jarayanat-e Islami Moaser dar Iran ve Jonbesh-e Democracy-Khahi (1/10/2010)
  • Displacement and Dispossession in the Modern Middle East (1/12/2010)
  • The Musical Ritual of the Mevlevi Dervishes Past and Present (1/13/2010)
  • Afghanistan in Ink Literatures of Nation, War, and Exile (1/14/2010)
  • Race and the Trace of History (1/25/2010)
  • The Regional Context of Turkeys Foreign Policy (1/27/2010)
  • Islam and the Bible (1/28/2010)
  • Orientalism in the Works of Paul Bowles (1/29/2010)
  • Reconceiving Middle Eastern Manhood Islam, Assisted Reproduction, and Emergent Masculinities (2/1/2010)
  • Giasone (2/5/2010 - 2/14/2010)
  • Media Freedom in the Maghreb (2/5/2010)
  • One Hundred Years of Oil Income and the Iranian Economy A Blessing or a Curse (2/7/2010 - 2/8/2010)
  • War, Citizenship and Memory in Iraq (2/9/2010)
  • Journalists Under Fire An Independent Reporters View from Chechnya, Iraq, and Afghanistan (2/11/2010)
  • How East Meets West Today Economies and Cultures of the Middle East in a Global Era (2/12/2010)
  • Tea on the Axis of Evil (2/16/2010)
  • Heavens Taxi and Iran Zendan (2/17/2010)
  • Changing Paradigms Society, Democracy, and Theology In Contemporary Iran (2/20/2010 - 2/21/2010)
  • Dreams from an Elsewhere Muslim Subjectivities beyond the Trope of Self-Cultivation (3/1/2010)
  • Before the Holocaust Italian Fascist Concentration Camps in Colonial Libya, 1929-1933 (3/2/2010)
  • Memory, Imagination, and Roots in the Music and Literature of Syrian-Lebanese Immigrants and their Descendants in Brazil (3/5/2010 - 3/6/2010)
  • The Armenian Communities of Asia Minor (3/20/2010)
  • The Emerging Ideology of Nationalism in Modern Iran (3/28/2010 - 3/29/2010)
  • State of the Art Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa (4/1/2010 - 4/2/2010)
  • Secrets, Fear, Honor, and Outrage Resistance to FGM/C Abolition in Sierra Leone and Sudan (4/5/2010)
  • Deterrence and Proportionality Assessing the Legality of the Dahiya Doctrine (4/12/2010)
  • Arab-Afghans, Jihad, and the Roots of 9/11 (4/13/2010)
  • UCLA AEF Chair in Modern Armenian History Souren and Verkin Papazian Fund (4/13/2010)
  • UCLA AEF Chair in Modern Armenian History Souren and Verkin Papazian Fund (4/13/2010 - 4/18/2010)
  • Poetry and Knowledge Thinking Through Bosnia and Palestine (4/14/2010)
  • Critical Perspectives on the Criminalization of Islamic Philanthropy in the War on Terror (4/16/2010)
  • A Tribute to Documentary Filmmaker Mikhail Vartanov 1927-2009 (4/18/2010)
  • Devastation and Controversy Consequences of the US Invasion for Iraqi Archives and Archival Documents since 2003 (4/19/2010)
  • Parallel Worlds Shadow Law and Political Culture in Morocco (4/22/2010)
  • The Decipherment of the Caucasian Albanian Script and Classification of the language on the Basis of New Manuscript Finds on Mt. Sinai (4/22/2010)
  • Indus Urbanism and Trade Recent Discoveries from Pakistan and India (4/23/2010)
  • The Donme Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks (4/26/2010)
  • A book reading in French, Dari and English by Atiq Rahimi, Afghan author (5/4/2010)
  • Opportunities for Scholars and Students with the Council of American Research Centers (5/6/2010)
  • Rethinking Arab Women as Subjects (5/7/2010)
  • Citizens, Real Others, and Other Others Biopolitical and Critical Phenomenological Reflections on Migrant Illegality in Tel Aviv (5/10/2010)
  • The Turkish Presence in the Islamic World (5/18/2010)
  • The Turkish Presence in the Islamic World (5/18/2010 - 5/19/2010)
  • Orientalism and the Invention of World Literatures (5/21/2010 - 5/22/2010)
  • The Short-Term Society, A study in the Long-Term Problems of Political and Economic Development in Iran (5/23/2010 - 5/24/2010)
  • Circuits and Networks Muslim Interactions in the First Age of Globalization (5/25/2010 - 5/26/2010)
  • The Shahnameh Irans National Epic (5/25/2010 - 5/26/2010)
  • Document Iranian-Americans in L.A. (6/6/2010 - 9/15/2010)
  • Summer Teacher Training Workshop-UCLA International Institutes National Resource Centers partnership with the International Studies Learning Center ISLC (6/22/2010 - 6/24/2010)
  • Interfaith Dialogue project (7/26/2010)
  • UCLA-International Studies Learning Center ISLC International Curriculum Workshop Series (9/15/2010 - 6/13/2011)
  • Doubt Jurisprudence in Early Islamic Law and Society 7th-- 9th-Centuries (10/13/2010)
  • Islamic Law and Legal Change The Internal Critique (10/13/2010)
  • Letters to My Torturer lecture in Persian (10/17/2010)
  • The Turkish Rom Social Dance Phenom (10/20/2010)
  • Israel and Apartheid The Jewish States Unspoken Alliance with Apartheid South Africa (10/21/2010)
  • Film Screening The Wedding Song France, Tunisia (10/23/2010)
  • Film Screening Little Town of Bethlehem USA (10/24/2010)
  • From Early Judeo-Iranian Jargons to Central Asiatic Argots of Rom Groups Evidence for an Influential Jewish Underworld in the Late Abbasid Period (10/26/2010)
  • Film Screening Not an Illusion Na Yek Tavahhom Iran (10/31/2010)
  • Pre-Positional Conjunctions Sexuality and/in Islam (11/1/2010)
  • Shariah Watch A View from the Inside (11/3/2010)
  • The First North American Conference on the Kurdish Language (11/5/2010)
  • The First North American Conference on the Kurdish Language (11/5/2010)
  • Taxonomies, Minorities, and Boundaries The League of Nations and the Interwar Middle East (11/9/2010)
  • The Roads to Oxiana The Writing of Travel at the Crossroads of Asia (11/9/2010)
  • Preserving the Two-State Solution (11/10/2010)
  • Art of Change-Making Philanthropy at its Best (11/14/2010)
  • Right to Education Obstacles to Academic Freedom in Occupied Palestine (11/16/2010)
  • Film Screening Z32 Israel (11/17/2010)
  • Film Screening Masquerades Algeria (11/23/2010)
  • Books, Wonder, and Exchange American Protestants in 19th-Century Iran (11/29/2010)
  • Leisurely Islam Youth Negotiations of Morality in Shiite South Beirut (12/2/2010)
  • Dar pey-ye mardomsalari talash-ha ye sad saleh-ye demokrasi-khahi dar Iran (12/5/2010)
  • Constitutionalism and Political Legitimacy in Modern Iran Strategies of creating and confronting political authority (12/6/2010)
  • Patterns of Authoritarianism and Resistance in Iran In Persian (1/9/2011)
  • Anticipatory Governance, Queer Difference and the Emirati Post-Oil Generation (1/10/2011)
  • Hidden Histories Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean (1/11/2011)
  • Heritage in Conflict The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript (1/19/2011)
  • Film Screening Tears of Gaza Norway (1/20/2011)
  • The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism 1860-1914 (1/25/2011)
  • Traumatic Memory Discourses in Israel Holocaust History, Territory and Self-Critique (1/27/2011)
  • Infrastructures of the Street in Cairo Uprising in Egypt, National Wealth, and the Question of Public Goods (2/3/2011)
  • Shariah Watch A View from the Inside (2/3/2011)
  • The Crisis of the Law in Colonial Egypt Violence, Ideals of Humanity, Colonial Governance (2/9/2011)
  • Mediterraneans North Africa and Europe in an Age of Migration, c. 1800-1900 (2/10/2011)
  • Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies (2/11/2011)
  • The Egyptian Intifada in Historical Perspective (2/15/2011)
  • The Good Daughter A Memoir of My Mothers Hidden Life (2/18/2011)
  • My Heart is in the East A Lecture - Demonstration on Sacred Israeli Music (2/22/2011)
  • Workshop on Late Antique and Early Islamic Intellectual History (2/22/2011)
  • The Broken Promise of U.S.- Arab Relations, 1820-2001 (2/23/2011)
  • The Israeli-Bedouin Music Connection A Lecture - Demonstration on Bedouin and Israeli Folk Music (2/23/2011)
  • Conscripted Subjects Disciplined Society, Critique, and the Humanities (2/24/2011 - 2/25/2011)
  • The Magic Carpet A Lecture - Demonstration on the Music of the Yemenite Jews in Israel (2/24/2011)
  • World History Through Afghan Muslim Eyes (2/25/2011)
  • Concert Cihat Askin (3/1/2011)
  • What is Israeli Music? A Lecture - Demonstration on the Ancient and Contemporary Music of Israel (3/1/2011)
  • West Bank Story The Role of Humor and Art in Peace-Making (3/2/2011)
  • Hunting the Out-of-Place Muslim Sketching the Juridical Architecture of Americas War on Terror (3/3/2011)
  • Under the Banner of Faith, in the Shadow of Empires Universalisms, Islam, and the War in Bosnia-Herzegovina (3/3/2011)
  • Gnawa and Moroccan Mystical Musics (3/5/2011)
  • Arabs of the Jewish Faith The Civilizing Mission in Colonial Algeria (3/8/2011)
  • Narrating Migration Around the Table The Frenchification of North African Jewish Palates (3/10/2011)
  • Armenian Genocide Oral History Collections in North America Development, Utilization, Potential (4/2/2011)
  • Film Screening Occupation Has No Future Israel/Palestine (4/4/2011)
  • Melting Pots and Promised Lands Early Zionism and the Idea of America (4/5/2011)
  • The Indian Ulema in Afghanistan (4/5/2011)
  • Humanitarian Action in the Middle East and North Africa Under Scrutiny Criminalizing Humanitarian Engagement (4/7/2011)
  • Workshop on Oral History of Knowledge in Iran and its Diaspora (4/7/2011 - 4/8/2011)
  • Behaves like a Rooster and Cries like a Dog Nightmares, Depression, Psychiatry, and the Rise of Iranian Psychiatric Selves (4/11/2011)
  • Shariah Watch (4/14/2011)
  • The Aesthetic Gesture in Contemporary Calligraphic Art Physical Dynamic and Free Visual Concepts (4/15/2011)
  • Deciphering Denial Ottoman Past, Turkish Present, and the Collective Violence against the Armenians, 1789-2009 (4/19/2011)
  • Violences Law (4/20/2011)
  • From Oxus to Euphrates Approaching the History of Late Antique Iran (4/21/2011)
  • Remembering in Post-invasion Kuwait Topographies, Collaborations, Mediations (4/25/2011)
  • The Origins and Development of Lebanese Nationalism in Comparative Perspective (4/26/2011)
  • Life Lived in Relief Humanitarian Effects, Political Claims, and Palestinian Refugee Community (4/28/2011)
  • Womens Worlds in Qajar Iran A Digital Window to Womens History (5/1/2011)
  • Edward Saids Palestine/Israel Inclusion Without Domination (5/4/2011)
  • Creative State Forty Years of Migration and Development Policy in Morocco and Mexico (5/5/2011)
  • Creative State Forty Years of Migration and Development Policy in Morocco and Mexico (5/5/2011)
  • The Green Movement and the Arab Uprisings (5/8/2011)
  • The Coming of Post-Islamist Revolutions in the Middle East (5/9/2011)
  • Between Memory and Extinction The Moroccan Jewish Quarter in the Twentieth Century (5/10/2011)
  • Two Premature Rumors of the Mediterraneans Death Fishing Wars, Maritime Gentrification, and Social Anthropology of Region Formation in the Channel of Sicily Since WWII (5/10/2011)
  • In Memoriam Juliano Mer-Khamis 1958-2011 (5/11/2011)
  • Pledging Water Qadis, Jews and Water Ownership in Southern Moroccan Oasis (5/12/2011)
  • Challenges of Biography Writing A View on the Shahs Life (5/15/2011)
  • From the Shah to the Ayatollah, Continuities and Ruptures (5/16/2011)
  • Betrayal, Morality, and Transnationalism Identity Construction Processes of the South Lebanese Army SLA in Israel since May 2000 (5/17/2011)
  • Mapping and Remapping the Tunisian Revolution (5/20/2011)
  • Whither Syria? (5/25/2011)
  • Film Screening Glass House Iran (6/5/2011)
  • Summer Heritage Research Institute (6/26/2011 - 7/26/2011)
  • Summer High School Language Program (6/28/2011 - 7/28/2011)
  • UCLA-ISLC K-12 Partnership (7/8/2011)
  • Heritage Language Teacher Workshop (7/18/2011 - 7/22/2011)
  • UCLA History-Geography ProjectReport on Popular Uprising Workshop (7/19/2011 - 7/21/2011)
  • Azi Aiyma Israel (7/26/2011)
  • ISLC-ISSN Summer Workshop (8/16/2011 - 8/18/2011)
  • Non-Muslim Communities in Fatimid Egypt The dhimmi experience, Islamization, and Negotiating Power (10/2/2011 - 10/3/2011)
  • On Libya (10/3/2011)
  • Men Who Tiptoe Into Their Marital Bedrooms A Meditation on the Reality of the Novelist in a Time of Revolution (10/6/2011)
  • Controversies concerning the Arabic and Berber Languages in Spain (10/13/2011)
  • The Future of Christianity in the Middle East (10/14/2011)
  • War Stories of Arab Americans (10/19/2011)
  • New Approaches to Algerian Jewish Studies (10/23/2011 - 10/24/2011)
  • A Social History of Cinema in Iran (10/24/2011)
  • The Arabs and the Holocaust The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives (10/25/2011)
  • Gender, Art, and Social Movements in the Middle East and Global South (10/28/2011)
  • Hoviyat-ha-ye sayyal Paziresh Eslam va ain-e Bahai dar miyan-e Yahoudian-e Iran Negotiating Identities Iranian Jews Conversion to Islam and the Bahai faith (10/30/2011)
  • Negotiating Identities Iranian Jews Conversion to Islam and the Bahai faith (11/2/2011)
  • With Liberty and Justice for Some How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful (11/2/2011)
  • Quran and Elocutionary Union in the Alhambra (11/3/2011)
  • Whose War? Whose Holy War? The Middle East and the First World War (11/8/2011)
  • Between Two Worlds The American Jewish Culture Wars (11/9/2011)
  • Taking Stock The Arab Uprisings on the Eve of Their First Anniversary (11/10/2011)
  • After a Decade of the War on Terror The Middle East, Human Rights and American Muslims (11/14/2011)
  • What Does a Jew Want? On Binationalism and Other Specters (11/15/2011)
  • The Battle of Algiers Then and Now (11/16/2011)
  • Great Games? Afghan History through Afghan Eyes (11/17/2011)
  • Making Biblical Prophets Islamic (11/17/2011)
  • The Emergence and Tides of a Contemporary Saint Bibi Nushin of Shibirghan, Afghanistan (11/18/2011)
  • Derakht-e Sokhangoo (11/20/2011)
  • A Night with Bahram Beyzai (11/21/2011)
  • Fazilat-e bakhshesh dar zendegi-ye fardi va siyasi The Virtue of Forgiveness in Personal and Political Life (1/7/2012)
  • The Role of the Media as a Partner in Protecting the Environment and Reaching Sustainable Development in Egypt (1/18/2012)
  • Tunisian Film Screening (1/19/2012)
  • The Struggle for Egypt From Nasser to Tahrir Square, a talk by Steven Cook, Council on Foreign Relations (1/24/2012)
  • Imagining Back Home in an era of Homeland Insecurity Palestinian American youth, education and the War on Terror (1/27/2012)
  • The Immortal Song of Freedom (1/29/2012)
  • Abd al-Hamid al-Katib on the Identity of the Bureaucracy (2/3/2012)
  • Pious Citizens Reforming Zoroastrianism in India and Iran (2/6/2012)
  • Egypt Whither the Revolution? (2/13/2012)
  • Muslim Women Reclaiming Identity Bazyabi Howiyat-e Zan-e Musalman (2/13/2012)
  • What Is the History of Disability in the Middle East, and Why Does It Matter? (2/14/2012)
  • Law, Human Rights, and Revolution Transitions in the Wake of the Arab Spring (2/16/2012 - 2/17/2012)
  • Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies (2/17/2012)
  • A Jewish Voice From Ottoman Salonica The Ladino Memoir of Saadi Besalel A-Levi (2/22/2012)
  • The False Paradigm of Parity and Partition Revisiting 1967 (2/24/2012)
  • Prof. Azat Yeghiazaryan (2/28/2012)
  • Secularism and Gender in Iran of Today (3/4/2012)
  • Al-Mutanabbi Street Poetry and Art from Tragedy (3/5/2012)
  • Transformation of the Religious Academia in Iran under the Islamic State (3/6/2012)
  • Revolution, Reform and Repression Challenges to Womens Inclusion and Equality in the Middle East and North Africa (3/7/2012)
  • Poetics and Politics of Irans National Epic, The Shahnameh (3/11/2012)
  • An Event Honoring Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl (3/21/2012)
  • Rethinking Armenian History through Paradigms of Interaction The Armenian Experience with Islam as Case Study (4/12/2012)
  • Text in Context A Teach-in on President Yudofs Letter (4/12/2012)
  • The Modern Recovery of the Ismaili Legacy and Its Importance for the Study of the Fatimids (4/19/2012)
  • How much Arabic is in my poems A Poetry reading interspersed by an essay on poetics and politics (4/20/2012)
  • A Night with Abbas Maroufi, author of The Symphony of the Dead (4/21/2012)
  • Iran and the Arab Spring What is next? (4/22/2012)
  • Living History with Professor James L. Gelvin (4/24/2012)
  • The Other Shift Settler Colonial Studies and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (4/26/2012)
  • Sayyid Zia, the First or Second Man of the Coup? (4/29/2012)
  • Rebellion and Repression on the Arabian Peninsula (4/30/2012)
  • From Pashas to Pariahs The Arrogant Years of Egypts Jewry (5/6/2012)
  • The Black Mediterranean Migration and Revolution in the Global Millennium (5/7/2012)
  • Urban Renewal and its Discontents IBA 1984/87 (5/7/2012)
  • Making Citizens and Contesting Citizenship in Late Ottoman Palestine (5/8/2012)
  • Complex Compatriots Jews in Post-Vichy Algeria (5/9/2012)
  • Civility and Sectarianism in Syria What Now? (5/15/2012)
  • Rethinking Food Provisioning in Complex Societies and Urban Centers If Animal Bones Could Only Talk (5/18/2012)
  • The Tigers of Jinbah Smugglers and border entrepreneurs in the southern West Bank and Israel 2005-2010 (5/18/2012)
  • 2012 Levi Della Vida Award for Excellence in Islamic Studies (5/24/2012 - 5/25/2012)
  • Beautiful Resistance Defying the Occupation Through the Theater and the Arts (5/25/2012)
  • Resentment of the Iranian Intelligentsia (5/27/2012)
  • National Association of Professors of Hebrew 2012 International Conference. (6/25/2012 - 6/27/2012)
  • High School Heritage Language programGeared toward students who speak one of the offered languages at home and want to improve their writing and reading skills. (6/26/2012 - 7/26/2012)
  • 2012 Heritage Language Teacher WorkshopDesigned to help language teachers face the challenge of teaching heritage language students. The workshop prepares them to understand the differences between teaching L2 and HL learners, the issues involved in heritage language teaching, and how to address them. (7/16/2012 - 7/20/2012)
  • K-12 Workshop Cities in World HistoryA three-day institute for Grade 7 teachers (7/17/2012 - 7/19/2012)

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