Join us on our next Sharia Workshop with Professor Devin Stewart to discuss the paper “Taqīyah and Tawriyah: Dissimulation and the Art of Ambiguity”
Join our upcoming Islamic History Workshop and explore Singapore's Islamic Pasts: Alexanders in an Island Below the Winds.
Join us for this year’s Turath Film Event presenting experimental works on indigeneity and displacement through representations of landscapes and their ecologies.
Join us for a book talk with Professor C. Cehyun Arslan on “The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures” accompanied Professor Yaseen Noorani .
Join us for the 9th edition of the New York Forum of Amazigh Film - "Memory & Resilience." Sign up now for the upcoming screening.
Join us for a book talk with Beeta Baghoolizadeh (Princeton University) on her recently published book, The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran;
Join us for a discussion with Tanya Habjouqa, Ameera Harouda, Gideon Levy, and Gilles Paris, moderated by David Remnick on War Reporting and the Case of Gaza & Israel.
Join us for a book talk with Professor Annette Damayanti Lienau as she discusses her work, "Sacred Language, Vernacular Difference: Global Arabic and Counter-Imperial Literatures," accompanied by Professor Rebecca Johnson.
Join us for this panel that explores the role that sanctions regimes have played in both continuing and subverting the racial and economic hierarchies sustaining modern U.S. imperialism, across West Asia.
Join us for a the Film Screening of the “INFILTRATORS” followed by a discussion with Director Khaled Jarrar & Dr Ali Musleh.
Join us for “Holding My Brother: Resistance as Affective Practice in Contemporary Palestinian Art,” a talk by Alessandra Amin (UPenn) on 18 March 2024 at 6pm.
Join us for a talk with Professor Elisabetta Benigni and Professor Pier Mattia Tommasino as they explore the influence of the Divine Comedy on Arabic literature and intellectual debates in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Join our upcoming Islamic History Workshop and delve into the intricacies of early modern Persian chronicles, dissecting the artistry of “dibachah” and unraveling the mysteries of “khatimah”.
Join us every Wednesday in Knox 207 for our Persian Conversation Circle. All levels welcome!
Jean-Pierre Filiu, in conversation with Rashid Khalidi
Join us for a discussion on the History of Gaza
Join us to explore the Material Culture in the Poetry of Sā’eb Tabrizi!
Join us for this book talk about Naṣr Allāh Munshī's Persian translation/adaptation of Kalīla and Dimna, written in the 1140s CE and dedicated to the Ghaznavid sultan Bahrāmshāh.
Join us for an information session to learn more about the MA in Islamic Studies and the Dual MA Degree with Aga Khan University.
Join us for a captivating discussion with Artist Sama Alshaibi on re-imagining the female figure in war & conflict.
Join us for an exciting talk on “Ethnicity and Identity in Northen Africa, from 533 to 2023
Join us for an eye-opening conference on “Visions of the World Beyond the West”
Join us on our next Sharia Workshop with Dr Mariam Sheibani to discuss the paper “A Tale of Two Ṭarīqas: The Iraqi and Khurasani Shāfiʿī Communities in the fourth/tenth and fifth/eleventh centuries”
Join Associate Professor Nancy Khalek for the second Islamic History Workshop of the semester on Thursday November 09 at 4:10pm in Knox Hall, 207.
Join us for the New York Premiere of May Masri’s film Beirut: Eye of the Storm
Join us on our next Sharia Workshop with Dr Ari Schribber to discuss the paper Is There a ‘Jury’ in Islamic Law? The Twelve-Witness Lafīfiyya Testimony in Moroccan Judicial Practice
Join us on 10/28 for a Book Talk with Professor Suzanne Stetkevych and Dr Huda Fakhreddine.
Join us for an exciting two-day workshop that will take as its objective a global history of translation and language in both the dissemination and reception of Ibn al-'Arabi's writings through discourse, music, and art.
Join us on our next Sharia Workshop with Professor Samy Ayoub to discuss the chapter The Obscure Appellate:
The Egyptian Islamic Supreme Court, 1898-1955.
Join author Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik to discuss her book “Maghreb Noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future,” on Thursday, September 28 at 4:10pm in Fayerweather 411.
In conversation with visual and performance artist Annabel Daou, Columbia University professor Kathryn Spellman Poots and Brown University professor Nadje Al-Ali, will introduce her art and the social and political significance of her work.
This conversation is part of a joint Middle East Institute at Columbia University and the Center for Middle East Studies at Brown University series on gender, art, and body politics in the Middle East and its diasporas.
Join Professor John Tolan for the first Islamic History Workshop of the semester on Wednesday, September 27th at 4:10pm in Knox Hall, 207.
Join us for the first Adab Colloquium of the semester !
Starting September 20th, join us every Wednesday for the Arabic Conversation Circle!
Join author Alice Wilson and Mandana Limbert to discuss Wilon’s book Afterlives of Revolution: Everyday Counterhistories of Southern Oman on Thursday, September 19 at 2:10 PM in Knox Hall 208.
Join us at 6pm on September 13 for the first event of the year, a panel and book launch for The Cunning of Gender Violence: Geopolitics and Feminism!
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