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Climate, Conflict, and Resilience in the MENA Region: Insights from Yemen’s Environmental and Social Frontlines
Wed, Mar 12, 2025 4:30pm to 6pm
The nexus of climate change, environmental degradation and conflict poses unique challenges for the MENA region, where environmental vulnerabilities intersect with ongoing political instability....
Cloud War: Networked Killing in Israel/Palestine
Mon, Apr 7, 2025 4:30pm to 6pm
Like most contemporary wars, Israel’s bombardment of Gaza is enabled by the algorithmic innovations of the day. In armored bases in southern Israel, intelligence soldiers cull through user-friendly...
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Scaling Heritage in Istanbul
Wed, Nov 20, 2024 4:30pm to 6pm
Sometimes framed as a vital inheritance, sometimes as an object of nostalgia, and still other times as a relic of backwardness, the Ottoman past has long been an object of debate and contestation...
Lebanon and Palestine in Focus
Mon, Nov 4, 2024 4:30pm to 6pm
The Center for Women's Studies welcomes Carol Fadda, associate professor of English at Syracuse University. In this talk, Professor Fadda will discuss the war on Gaza and Lebanon, addressing the...
MIST Open House & Pre-Registration Event
Tue, Oct 29, 2024 11:30am to 12:45pm
Meet MIST Professors Enjoy a Multicultural Lunch Open to all students who would like to learn about the MIST program, MIST Concentrators may pre-register for Spring 2025 courses. Join this top...
Badlands: America's Wars from Chicago to Gaza
Mon, Oct 28, 2024 4:30pm to 6pm
In A World of Enemies: America’s Wars at Home and Abroad from Kennedy to Biden.(Harvard University Press, 2024), Professor Osamah Khalil examines the relationship between domestic politics and...
Whence Jerusalem?
Mon, Oct 7, 2024 4:30pm to 6pm
Where did Jerusalem come from? Obviously, Jerusalem is a real city one can find on a map, inhabited by real people (though even saying this we must ask questions about which maps and which people)....
Arabs, Arab-Americans, and the U.S. Elections
Wed, Sep 25, 2024 4:30pm to 6pm
Hafez Al Mirazi’s broadcast experience spans over 40 years, starting as a radio broadcaster at Sawt Al Arab (Voice of the Arabs) in Cairo. He taught television journalism for 11 years as a...
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