Farouk Mustafa Memorial Friday Lecture Series

September 25, 2025: Aaron Jakes (University of Chicago)  
“Revolution before Revolution?: The Suez Canal Base, Armed Struggle, and the Antinomies of Decolonization in Egypt”

October 31, 2025: CMES Master Class with Asef Bayat (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 
“Non-Movements and the Subtle Dynamics of Social Change in the Middle East”

November 3, 2025: Olivier Bouquet (Université Paris Cité) 
“Wood and Woodworkers in the Ottoman Empire (17th century)”

December 5, 2025:Narges Bajoghli (Johns Hopkins University) 
“Weapons Against Humanity: Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Iran and Iraq and the Unmaking of the International Community”

January 23, 2026: Arang Keshavarzian (New York University) 
“Making Space for the Gulf: Histories of Regionalism and the Middle East”

April 3, 2026: Amir Moosavi (Rutgers University-Newark) 
Farouk Mustafa Memorial Lecture on Modern Arabic Literature: “Reckoning with Ghosts: The Iran-Iraq War in Persian and Arabic Fiction Today”

April 24: CMES Master Class with Sherene Seikaly (University of California, Santa Barbara)