2022-2023 Schedule
September 23, 2022 - Orit Bashkin (University of Chicago)
"Ottoman Purim: Jewish Memories of an Ottoman Past""
October 14, 2022 - Abdel Razzaq Takriti (University of Houston)
"Reframing Palestine: Towards an Anti-Colonial History "
October 21, 2022 - Heba Gowayed (Boston University)
"Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential"
November 4, 2022 - Mohamad Ballan (Stony Brook University)
"Borderland Hybridities: Genealogical Politics and the Racialization of Religion in Nasrid Granada"
November 11, 2022 - Fahad Bishara (University of Virginia)
"Monsoon Voyagers: The Indian Ocean and Other Arab Worlds"
January 6, 2023 - Hassan (Husni) Haddad Memorial Lecture - Hanan Hammad (Texas Christian University)
January 27, 2023 - Dana Sajdi (Boston College)
February 17, 2023 - Satyel Larson (Princeton University)
February 24, 2023 - Rania Sweis (University of Chicago)
April 7, 2023 - Farouk Mustafa Memorial Lecture on Modern Arabic Literature - Samah Selim (Rutgers University)
April 14, 2023 - Charles Hirschkind (University of California, Berkeley)
April 21, 2023 - Rodrigo Adem (Georgetown University)
April 28, 2023 - Ziad Fahmy (Cornell University)
"Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt"