A teach-in on the situation in Gaza and Israel with Hasan Ayoub, Ayelet Ben-Yishai, and Josh Ruebner. The views expressed are those of the speakers and do not represent an official position of the university or the organizing units.
CSAMES Lectures
This lecture focuses on a reading of two contemporary novels: Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West and Omar ElAkkad’s What Strange Paradise in the light of magical realism. It argues that these novels infuse reality with fantasy to re- write the narrative of the refugee. Looking at refugee journeys not only as...
A fascinating Archaeological site, PERGAMON-BERGAMA, which was the capital of Attalid Dynasty in the 3rd Century BC and gateway between the Eastern and the Western Worlds.
What happens when we recognize that inheritors of traumatic cultural memory can also be witnesses to succeeding events of collective violence? More specifically, how does the field of contemporary cultural memory studies develop tools to make meaning of the narrativization of those acts of...
The Use and Value of Geography among the Ottomans: KATIP CELEBI's Cosmography
Identity has been studied in light of many theoretical frameworks such as “Accommodation Theory” (Coupland 1984; Giles and Coupland 1991), “Audience Design” (Bell 1984), “Acts of Identity” (Le Page and Tabouret-Keller 1985), and “Language and Identity” Bucholtz and Hall (2004, 2005) among other...
When COVID-19 hit the nation, all schools had to shift to online learning. Several efforts have discussed online learning practices and digital transformation in different contexts and countries. However, discussing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on teaching and learning practices in the Arab...
In the aftermath of Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine in February of 2022, the United States, Canada, and the European Union states showed unusual unity in identifying Russia as an aggressor and taking swift measures both to move away from energy dependency on Russia and to institute sanctions...
This paper aims to answer two important questions using MENA countries’ data between 1996 and 2017. The firsts: what are the impacts of the financial development and the quality of institutions (or corruption levels) on the informal/shadow economy? The second question is: how does the interaction...
This talk will address first, the dominant mystifying perceptions of the current crisis of transition in Libya after 2011, then it shall present an alternative critical argument to understand the causes of the civil war, and main internal, regional and international actors behind it.
A lecture by Dr. Lee Clare, a Research Lecturer in Prehistoric Archaelogy at DAI Instanbul on the oldest known temple in the world! Göbekli Tepe can be found in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. Göbekli Tepe is dated between c. 9500 and 8000 BCE. Click...
Learn about the history of Turkish folk music and Anatolian wind instruments from past to present! Click here to watch the recording.
Learn how to speak Turkish and make new friends! Click here to watch the recording.
This lecture seeks to trace the drafting history of UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 declaring Zionism as a form of racism with an emphasis on how the text and process shaped a racial theory of Zionist settler-colonization. Click here...
In this talk, a VAR methodology is run on monthly data from 2000 to 2017 in order to investigate the role of the real exchange rate on trade flows of three oil-importing countries in the MENA region, especially during the tremendous and transitional post-Arab Spring period. Click...- In this talk, Prof. Newman (Dept. of Religion, UIUC) examines the role of narrative placemaking in the epigraphic and literary record of fifteenth-century Mewar in northwest India. Click here to watch the recording.
Speaker: Dr. Honaida Yousuf Ahyad. In today’s talk, Dr. Ahyad will address three Sociolinguistic Challenges: the excessive use of religious expressions, gender role and their impact on the workplace, and translation loss. Click here...
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This talk, by Prof. Avishek Ray, focuses on the epistemic and political implications of ascribing an "Indian origin" to the Roma. How do scholars and savants seek to understand Roma populations with reference to their purported origin and what ideas of Indian-ness does this entail? {"...
The speaker, referencing her book, Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa, examines Islamic legal responses to Muslims living under Christian rule in medieval and early modern Iberia and North Africa. Click...
This talk presents the results of an archaeological and oral historical survey of Delhi’s refugee colony areas. Despite the dispossession and hardship wrought by the Partition, residents in these neighborhoods have transformed rudimentary government-built housing units into beloved, multi-...
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In this talk, the speaker explores the interconnectedness between the Qur’an and literature produced in the U.S and Canada by Muslim Women. She seeks to draw attention to the wide variety of texts by American and Canadian Muslim women writers who reference the Qur’an and/or its Tafsir (i.e....
In his talk, our speaker explores how Tahmima Anam’s The Bones of Grace and Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People respond to the notion of development gained through the transfer of pollution to poor countries in the age of neoliberal globalization. {"preview_thumbnail...
Shari Eppel, Executive Director of the Ukuthula Trust in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, speaks about the Trust's work with families of massacre victims in southwest Zimbabwe to identify, exhume and properly rebury the dead. {"preview_thumbnail":"/sites/default/files/styles/...
