Archive of Past Events
2012
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012 Movie Screening
Lebanese movie with English SubtitlesThe movie tells the story of a remote, isolated unnamed Lebanese village inhabited by both Muslims and Christians. The village is surrounded by land mines and only reachable by a small bridge. As civil strife engulfed the country, the women in the village learn of this fact and try, by various means and to varying success, to keep their men in the dark. |
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012 Mahmoud Darwish: The Poetics of Return
Sinan Antoon (NYU)Olin 102 Many of the late poems of Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008) grapple with the theme of a/the “return” to Palestine. Considering Darwish’s iconic status and his immense symbolic and political capital and the visceral importance of “return” as a political category, it becomes more than a theme. In his talk Antoon will attempt to trace this narrative of return in representative poems and read its political implications.Sinan Antoon is Associate Professor at NYU's Gallatin School. He is also a poet, novelist and translator. He has published two collections of poetry in Arabic and one collection in English: "The Baghdad Blues" (Harbor Mountain Press, 2007). He has published three novels: "I`jaam: An Iraqi Rhapsody" (City Lights, 2007), "The Pomegranate Alone" (2010) forthcoming from Yale University Press in 2013, and "Ya Maryam" (Beirut: Dar al-Jamal, 2012). His translations from the Arabic include Mahmoud Darwish’s "In the Presence of Absence" (Archipelago, 2011) and a selection of Iraqi poet Saadi Youssef’s late work, "Nostalgia; My Enemy" (Graywolf, 2012). His translation of Toni Morrison’s Home is forthcoming in Arabic in 2013. He is a member of the Editorial Review Board of the Arab Studies Journal and co-founder and co-editor of the cultural page of Jadaliyya. Antoon returned to his native Baghdad in 2003 as a member of InCounter Productions to co-direct a documentary, About Baghdad, about the lives of Iraqis in a post-Saddam-occupied Iraq. |
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Monday, November 26, 2012 Divine and Popular Sovereignty in Islamic Political Thought after the Arab Spring
Olin 102 Andrew March Associate Professor of Political Science, Yale University Since the 2011 revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, political life in those countries has been dominated by so-called "moderate Islamist" parties. These parties proclaim the acceptance of constitutional democracy and political power-sharing, while at the same time endorsing shari'a law as the ultimate source of legitimate power in a Muslim country. This talk approaches the paradox of Islamic democracy through the lens of the concept of sovereignty in contemporary Islamic political theology. What does it mean to hold that both God and the people can be said to be "sovereign" and what unresolved paradoxes remain at the level of theory? |
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Monday, October 15, 2012 "Memory, Trauma and Human Rights in Middle Eastern Cinemas"
Olin Humanities, Room 102 Professor Kamran Rastegar of Tufts University will give a lecture entitled "Memory, Trauma and Human Rights in Middle Eastern Cinemas"This is the second event in the Middle Eastern Studies speaker series. Join us!! The talk will be followed by discussion. |
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012 Beyond 'Muslim Rage'
Making Sense of 'Anti-Americanism' in the Islamic WorldWeis Panel discussion with Moustafa Bayoumi (Brooklyn College) and Charles Anderson (Bard College)In early September, the release of an amateurish video produced in the United States set off a torrent of protests in the Arab and Muslim worlds. The film, "Innocence of Muslims," castigates and mocks the prophet Muhammad and the Islamic faith. As demonstrations and attacks on U.S. embassies or installations spread to no less than 29 cities in 18 or more countries stretching from Morocco to Indonesia, intellectuals, politicians, and the media in the U.S. highlighted the absence of respect for free speech in the Muslim world and suggested that Islamic cultures and Arab societies are susceptible to intolerance and fanaticism.Why did the wave of protests occur and spread so quickly? What do they tell us about U.S. relations with the Arab and Muslim worlds? Join us as we explore alternative views of the crisis, investigate its relationship to Islam and Islamophobia, and assess the paradoxical role of the United States in generating anti-Americanism. |
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012 Arabic Language Table
When: Every Tuesday, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.Where: Kline dining area |
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012 Arabic Language Table
When: Every Tuesday, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.Where: Kline dining area |
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012 Arabic Language Table
When: Every Tuesday, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.Where: Kline dining area |
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012 Arabic Language Table
When: Every Tuesday, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.Where: Kline dining area |
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Tuesday, April 3, 2012 Arabic Language Table
When: Every Tuesday, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.Where: Kline dining area |
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012 Arabic Language Table
When: Every Tuesday, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.Where: Kline dining area |
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Monday, March 26, 2012 The People Want?
Poetry, Slogan and Revolutionary Repertoire in EgyptOlin 102 Elliott Colla Associate Professor of Arabic & Islamic Studies, Georgetown University |
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012 "Four Women of Egypt"
Olin LC 115 Dir. Tahani Rached Egypt/Canada, 1997 90 minutes, Arabic with English subtitles |
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012 Arabic Language Table
When: Every Tuesday, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.Where: Kline dining area |
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012 Arabic Language Table
When: Every Tuesday, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.Where: Kline dining area |
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012 Arabic Language Table
When: Every Tuesday, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.Where: Kline dining area |
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012 Revisiting Guantanamo
Human Rights and Law in the American EmpireOlin Humanities, Room 102 On January 11, 2002, the first twenty captives arrived at the extrajudicial detention and interrogation facility at Guantanamo Bay. In the decade since, more than 700 prisoners have been held at the facility. Guantanamo Bay lies at the center of controversies concerning the use of torture, the application of international law and treaties, and the judicial challenges prompted by an expanding American presence in the Middle East. Darryl Li and Jamil Dakwar will explore the Guantanamo facility's position within the context of American empire and the legal practices and implications surrounding the trials of its detainees. This event is co-sponsored by the Human Rights Program, the American Studies Program and the Center for Civil Engagement |
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012 Arabic Language Table
When: Every Tuesday, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.Where: Kline dining area |