OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies


  • Rumi Reading (co-sponsor Persia House) (9/11/2007)
  • Mahalla in Central Asia: Urban Neighborhood as Site of Societal Transformation (9/14/2007)
  • Music and Early Globalizations in Turkey (9/20/2007)
  • The Origins of Cities in the Middle East (9/21/2007)
  • Beirut: A City of Lights and Dangerous Sparks (9/28/2007)
  • Reception and Tribute: John V.A. Fine (9/28/2007)
  • Symposium: "A Tradition Continued: A Symposium on Byzantine, Balkan and Church History in Honor of John V.A. Fine, Jr." (9/29/2007)
  • "Early Marriage,, Education, and Women's Empowerment in Iran" (10/2/2007)
  • Sussan's Class Lecture (10/3/2007)
  • UMMA Teacher Workshop (10/3/2007)
  • Of Heritage and Inventions: the Lost Ferdawsi, his Modern Tomb, and the Utopic Future in 1920s Iran (10/4/2007)
  • Tehran: A Revolution in Making (10/5/2007)
  • Representations of Love in Sufi Literature (10/7/2007)
  • Corpses in Morticians' Hands: The Social Logic of Sufi Hagiographical Narratives (10/8/2007)
  • Islam and the 'Great Game' in Central Asia (10/10/2007)
  • "Law, Ethics, and Donor Technologies in Shia Iran" (10/12/2007)
  • Tel Aviv: Modern Israeli or Postmodern Cosmopolitan City (10/12/2007)
  • Rumi Talk - translation, recitation, music? (10/17/2007)
  • Between Islam, Iran, and the Turks: Legitimizing Authority amongst Urban Elites on the Eastern Frontier (10/19/2007)
  • Spiritual Sounds of Central Asia (10/20/2007)
  • The Ottoman Mission to Civilize: Arab Provinces c1900 (10/25/2007)
  • The Remaking of Arab Cities in the 19th Century: French and Ottoman Policies (10/26/2007)
  • Walter Andrews (10/31/2007)
  • Reforming Paradigms Power and Places: 19th-Century Middle Eastern Cities in Comparison (11/2/2007)
  • On Making the Visual "Modern" in Contemporary Iran (11/4/2007)
  • Public Reading (11/6/2007)
  • Detroit, the Islamic City (11/7/2007)
  • Sussan's Class Lecture (11/7/2007)
  • Nuclear Panel (11/11/2007)
  • Iraq: Beyond Benchmarks - A Regional Perspective (11/16/2007)
  • The Poor in the Islamic City (11/16/2007)
  • Global Models of Suburbia in Istanbul (11/30/2007)
  • Iranian Films (12/2/2007 - 12/22/2007)
  • Israel/Palestine (12/3/2007)
  • Kabul Transit (documentary by DB Edwards) (12/5/2007)
  • Anthro co-sponsor? (12/7/2007)
  • Cotton and Climate in Early Islamic Iran (1/10/2008)
  • Partition Iraq? Imperial Iraq Strategies (1/13/2008 - 8/14/2008)
  • Partition Iraq? Imperial Iraq Strategies from Suleiman the Magnificent to Joseph Biden (1/13/2008)
  • Beyond Crossing the Borders: Dynamics of Health in the Middle East (1/16/2008)
  • Beyond Crossing the Borders: Dynamics of Health in the Middle East (1/16/2008 - 8/14/2008)
  • iving, Loving, and Working across Borders: South and Southeast Asian Migrants in the Arab Gulf States (1/23/2008 - 8/14/2008)
  • Living, Loving, and Working across borders: South and South East Asian migrants in the Arab Gulf States (1/23/2008)
  • America and the 'Near East': Millennialist Mission and Trauma (19th- early 20th c.) (1/24/2008 - 8/14/2008)
  • Thinking 'New Turkey' in Geneva: Revolutionary Diaspora Groups around 1908 (1/24/2008)
  • Electronic Media and Pop Culture in the Middle East: Reality vs. Perceptions and Stereotypes (1/30/2008)
  • Electronic Media and Pop Culture in the Middle East: Reality vs. Perceptions and Stereotypes (1/30/2008 - 8/14/2008)
  • Chingul Project (co-sponsor History of Art) (2/1/2008)
  • Tomb Chamber as Kunstkammer: The Meaning of Collected Objects in a Steppe Burial (2/1/2008)
  • The Middle East as Arms Bazaar: Trade, Trafficking and Transiting Small Arms (2/6/2008 - 8/14/2008)
  • The Middle East as Arms Bazaar: Trading, Trafficking, Transiting Small Arms (2/6/2008)
  • New Borders for Arab Detroit: How the War on Terror is Changing the Shape of a Transnational Community (2/13/2008)
  • New Borders for Arab Detroit: How the War on Terror is Changing the Shape of a Transnational Community (2/13/2008 - 8/14/2008)
  • 'Sultans of Smack': Dope, Gangsters and the Creation of the "Deep" Turkish State: 1877-2007 (2/20/2008 - 8/14/2008)
  • In the Hunt for the 'Sultans of Smack': Dope, Gangsters and the Creation of the "Deep" Turkish State: 1877-2007 (2/20/2008)
  • Playing Piano in Early 20th Century Istanbul (2/21/2008)
  • America and the 'Near East': Millenialist Mission and Trauma (19th-early 20th century) (3/5/2008)
  • The Future of Islam (3/10/2008)
  • The Future of Islam (3/10/2008 - 8/14/2008)
  • Is the Humanist Hermeneutic Approach to the Qur'an Possible? (3/11/2008)
  • Mercenary Logic: Rethinking the Social History of Religious Interaction in the Middle Ages (3/12/2008)
  • Mercenary Logic: Rethinking the Social History of Religious Interaction in the Middle Ages. (3/12/2008 - 8/14/2008)
  • The Shia, Modernity, and the Legacy of Musa al-Sadr (3/14/2008 - 3/15/2008)
  • The Shia, Modernity, and the Legacy of Musa al-Sadr (3/15/2008 - 8/14/2008)
  • Nauryz with Roksonaki (3/17/2008 - 3/21/2008)
  • Roksonaki Residency (3/17/2008)
  • Sex Slaves (3/18/2008)
  • Trafficking in the Turkic World (3/19/2008)
  • Trafficking in the Turkic World (3/19/2008 - 8/14/2008)
  • Accidental Imperialists?: Muslim Pilgrims and the Extension of Russian Power Abroad (3/26/2008)
  • Accidental Imperialists?: Muslim Pilgrims and the Extension of Russian Power Abroad (3/26/2008 - 8/14/2008)
  • Televangelism in Yemen: Amr Khaled and Religious Change amongst Yemeni Women (4/2/2008)
  • Televangelism in Yemen: Amr Khaled and Religious Change amongst Yemeni Women (4/2/2008 - 8/14/2008)
  • RUMI (4/3/2008)
  • The 'Russian Revolution' in Israeli Politics and Society (4/9/2008)
  • The 'Russian Revolution' in Israeli Politics and Society (4/9/2008 - 8/14/2008)
  • Mullah, Dengbej, Intellectual: Continuity and Change in Kurdish Culture in Turkey (4/10/2008)
  • Midwest Institute for International/Interculatural Education 2008 Summer Workshops (8/4/2008 - 8/15/2008)
  • Blasphemy in Defense of Piety? (9/15/2008)
  • Apologetic and polemic Darwinism in the Middle East (9/22/2008)
  • Late Ottoman Schooling in the Balkans From Authoritarian to Local Governmentalities (9/25/2008)
  • The Power and Problem of the Image Depictions of the Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Traditions (9/29/2008)
  • Jewish Notions of Idolatry and Their Function in the Religious Landscape of the Roman Mediterranean (10/6/2008)
  • Unintended Consequences US Cold War Policy and Afghanistans Holy Warriors (10/13/2008)
  • Poppies are Democracy Geographies of Eradication and Production in Turkey (10/22/2008)
  • Humor and Subversion in Persian Sufi Tradition (10/27/2008)
  • Freedom and Blasphemy On Indonesian Press Bans and Danish Cartoons (11/3/2008)
  • The Peripheral Religious Thought in the post-Mongol Iran Example of the Hurufis (11/5/2008)
  • Middle East Minorities Conference (11/7/2008 - 11/8/2008)
  • German Muslims and Turkish Christians Religious Conversion as a Threat to National Security in the New Europe (11/10/2008)
  • The Ottoman Maritime Frontier (11/13/2008)
  • Hijacking Scriptures in Medieval Polemics (11/17/2008)
  • The Career of Sacred Texts Of Sanctity and Desacralization (11/24/2008)
  • Time, Dreams and Laughter Snapshots of the Subversive in Jewish Mystical Tradition and its aftershocks (12/1/2008)
  • Islamist Movements in Central Asia What They are and are Not (1/28/2009)
  • Conversations Between Religion, Philosophy, and Science in Islamic Civilization (2/2/2009)
  • Contemporary Shiite Movements in the Middle East and Beyond (2/4/2009)
  • Beyond Violence Jihad and the New Gamaah Islam (2/9/2009)
  • Perspectives on Ancient Mesopotamian Views of the World (2/9/2009)
  • Geography as a Useful Science the Ottoman Case (2/16/2009)
  • All Politics are Nationalist What we are re-learning about the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (3/2/2009)
  • The Integrated Cosmos of the Hittites (3/2/2009)
  • Cosmology, Protology and Escatology in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity (3/9/2009)
  • The Struggle for Power in Afghanistan Tribal Leaders and Islamic Militants (3/11/2009)
  • Afghanistan The Once and Future War (3/12/2009)
  • Science and Religion in Islam (3/16/2009)
  • Media Representations of Arabs and Muslims after 9/11 (3/23/2009)
  • The Dynamics of Competing Islamic Educational Movements in West Africa since about WW II (3/25/2009)
  • Ahmad Kuftaru and His Brotherhood in Contemporary Syria (3/30/2009)
  • The End of Everything in Ancient Egypt (3/30/2009)
  • The Islamic Other Fundamentalism and Sufism in the Muslim World and Beyond (3/30/2009)
  • Islamic Movements in China (4/1/2009)
  • Homo Sacer with Kalashnikovs the Taliban, Jihad and Sovereign Power (4/6/2009)
  • The Depiction of the Mediterranean in Islamic Cartography 11th-16th Centuriesth centuries From the Bureaucrats to the Sea Captains (4/6/2009)
  • Ontologies for Knowledge Management and Sharing in the Field of Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins (4/13/2009)
  • Debating Post-Islamism Amr Khaled and Fethullah Gulen as social movement of the everyday (4/15/2009)
  • Thus Spake Zarathustra Iranian Cosmogony and Eschatology (4/20/2009)
  • Ann Arbor Book Festival (5/16/2009)
  • World History Institute case studies from the Dutch East Indies, East Africa, India, Korea, Mexico, the Ottoman Empire, and Russia are explored using three themes about the 19th and early 20th centuries transformations in production/technology, transformations in identity, means of political and social control and the use of violence. Building on presentations by faculty, the workshop engaged teachers on ways to use these themes to both compare and connect the various global cases presented. (12/4/2009 - 12/5/2009)
  • Benaat Chicago (2/1/2010)
  • Fashioning Faith (2/1/2010)
  • The Mosque in Morgantown (2/15/2010)
  • A Sons Sacrifice (2/22/2010)
  • Ergenekon trial and the transformation ofcivilian-military relations in Turkey (2/25/2010)
  • Putting Islamic Finance in a Western Perspective (3/4/2010)
  • Caught Between Two Worlds (3/8/2010)
  • The Noble Struggle (3/15/2010)
  • The Role of Islamic International Organizations in the Realm of International Politics (3/15/2010)
  • The Middle East Economy in 2010Exceptions amid Slump (3/18/2010)
  • Journey into America (3/20/2010)
  • The Letter (3/22/2010)
  • The Minds of Peace Experiment Five Israelis meet with five Palestinians to discuss, debate and negotiate different solutions to one of the most entrenched conflicts in the world. (3/25/2010)
  • Minds of Peace Experiment Five Israelis meet with five Palestinians to discuss, debate and negotiate different solutions to one the most entrenched conflicts in the world. (3/26/2010)
  • They Call Me Muslim (4/5/2010)
  • Ali Eteraz Children of Dust book reading, signing and discussion. Author Ali Eteraz is a compelling young male literary voice, whose coming-of-age story Children Of Dust captures not merely pain, but also the love, laughter, and pathos of Muslim life. (4/21/2010)
  • Immigration, Islam and Identity A Conversation with Ali Eteraz (4/21/2010)
  • Allah Made Me Funny Landmark concert film that follows three comedians on stage and off as they lift the veil to reveal the humorous truth of what its really like to be Muslim in America. (5/24/2010)
  • The Letter An American Town and The Somali Invasion In the wake of the 9/11 tragedy a firestorm erupts when Mayor Larry Ramond of Lewiston, Maine sends an open letter to 1,100 newly arrived Somali refugees advising them that the citys resources are strained to the limit and asking other Somalis not to move to the city. (5/25/2010)
  • Journey into America Akbar Ahmed, renowned anthropologist and Chair of Islamic Studies at American University, took a one year sabbatical to research Muslims in America and the attitudes and perceptions of Americans regarding their Muslim neighbors. (5/26/2010)
  • Inside Islam What a Billion Muslims Really ThinkA new documentary film from Unity Productions Foundation, explores the expertly gathered opinions of Muslims around the globe as revealed in the worlds first major opinion poll, conducted by Gallup, the preeminent polling organization. (5/27/2010)
  • World History Initiative Teacher Workshop Eras 1-3 Foundations of the Michigan Framework through 600 CE (6/30/2010 - 7/1/2010)
  • Opportunities for Teachers E-Newsletter (8/15/2010 - 8/14/2011)
  • Tea on the Axis of Evil (9/13/2010)
  • Maps and Measurements in Islamic Cartography (9/15/2010)
  • The Worldmapper Project and the State of the World Today (9/22/2010)
  • Mapping the Countries of the World by Development and Morality the Perceptions of Ordinary People (9/29/2010)
  • Subjective Cartography Mapping Palestine through Visual Art and Personal Narratives (10/6/2010)
  • International Writer in Residence Poetry Reading (10/11/2010)
  • Adonis (10/12/2010)
  • Adonis (10/13/2010)
  • Mapping Tribal Space in Jordan A Study in Mixed Cartographies (10/13/2010)
  • Authors Forum Presents Adonis (10/14/2010)
  • Ottoman Doomsday Books Cow or Bull? (10/20/2010)
  • Poor Peoples Movements and the Cold War in the Middle East Elizabeth Thompson, University of Virginia (10/21/2010)
  • Mapping Early Ottoman Space Inlands and Outlands (10/27/2010)
  • What is Enlightenment? Arab and Postcolonial Perspectives (11/1/2010)
  • Mapping the Iranian and Arabic Blogospheres (11/3/2010)
  • Participation of German-Jewish Professor in Turkish University Reform 1933 (11/7/2010)
  • Mapping, Counting, Graphing The Young Turks Turkification Policy 1913-1918 (11/10/2010)
  • The Arabs and the Holocaust An Examination (11/16/2010)
  • World History Initiative Teacher Workshop Era 7 of the Michigan Framework 1900-1945 (12/3/2010 - 12/4/2010)
  • Mascarades (12/7/2010)
  • My Tehran for Sale (12/14/2010)
  • Ajami Literary Traditions of Sahelian Africa The Case of Wolofal (1/12/2011)
  • Latin against Hebrew, Latin against Arabic Linguistic Authority in the Medieval Mediterranean (1/19/2011)
  • Influence, Hybridization, or Transculturation? Muslims, Jews and Christians in the Music of Medieval Spain (1/21/2011)
  • German Penetration into the Ottoman Empire through the Baghdad Railway (1/24/2011)
  • Turkish Linguistic Nationalism (1/26/2011)
  • Revolutionaries after the Revolution Politics under the Ottoman Constitution (2/7/2011)
  • Struggle Against Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East (2/7/2011)
  • Struggle Against Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East (2/7/2011)
  • Siege Mentality Alphabets and Ideology in Malta (2/9/2011)
  • Colloquial Egyptian Poetry between the Politics and Poetics of Language. (2/16/2011)
  • Global Policy Perspectives Symposium (2/16/2011)
  • Afghanistans 2014 A Photojournalist Capturing a War without End (2/18/2011)
  • Piety, power and the rise of the Armenian literary standards. (2/23/2011)
  • The Rapid Rise and Remarkable Success of Classical Arabic in the Early Islamic Period Uniformity and Variety (2/23/2011)
  • Greek into Arabic into Latin and Greek Translation and Civilization in the pre-Renaissance West (3/9/2011)
  • Intervention and the Dilemmas of Security in Afghanistan (3/11/2011)
  • Ottoman Gardens and the Western World (3/14/2011)
  • Accented FrenchBeur Culture and Beyond (3/16/2011)
  • The Shah and Ayatollahs Ruptures and Continuities in Iranian Politics Abbas Milani, Stanford University (3/17/2011)
  • Regional Revolutions What the Revolutions of 1989 in Central Europe Tell Us about 2011 in the Middle East (3/28/2011)
  • Source of Life, Source of Conflict Water in the Middle East (4/1/2011)
  • Vernacular and Cosmopolitan Languages A global conversation (4/20/2011 - 4/29/2011)

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