2018-2019 Schedule
September 28, 2018 - Emrah Yıldız (Northwestern University)
"Kaçak (Fugitive) Coordinates of Territorialization, or The Turkey/Syria Border as a Palimpsest of Sovereignty"
October 12, 2018 - Hayder Al-Mohammad (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs)
"What is the 'preparation' in the preparing for death?: New confrontations with death and dying in Iraq"
October 26, 2018 - Maria M Dakake (George Mason University)
“The Scholar’s Dilemma: Appreciating Shi`ite Distinctiveness in an Age of Heightened Sectarian Tension”
November 2, 2018 - Sifra Lentin (Gateway House)
“Jews of Pakistan”
January 18, 2019 - Joel Gordon (University of Arkansas)
"Alternate Orientals: The ‘Indian’ Other on the Egyptian Screen"
January 25, 2019 - Marina Rustow (Princeton University)
"Abusive Ligatures, Hanging Baselines and the Lost Fatimid Archive"
February 22, 2019 - Kaya Sahin (Indiana University)
“Imperial Performances: Circumcision Ceremonies for Ottoman Princes, 1457-1582”
March 1, 2019 - Barbara Mann (The Jewish Theological Seminary)
"From Maus to The Rabbi's Cat: History and Imagined Space in the Graphic Novel"
April 5, 2019 - Elias Muhanna (Brown University)
"A Syrian Traveler in the Eighteenth-Century Mediterranean: Hanna Dyab and his Book of Travels"
6th Annual Farouk Mustafa Memorial Lecture on Modern Arabic Literature
April 12, 2018 - Tarek El-Ariss (Dartmouth College)
"The Future is Now: Arab Modernity in the Digital Age"
April 26, 2019 - Yasmin Moll (University of Michigan)
"The Idea of Islamic Media"
May 17, 2019 - Nancy Khalek (Brown University)
"Theoretical Considerations for Reading Islamic 'Hagiographical' Literature"