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Arabic and Hebrew language tables occur weekly during the semester. Join us for Hebrew every Monday at 6:00 p.m. in the President's Room at Kline, or for Arabic every Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. in Kline Commons. Middle Eastern Studies also sponsors special academic and social events and encourages students to attend other campus events relating to the Middle East.

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2012

  Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Movie Screening
Lebanese movie with English Subtitles

The 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.


  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.




  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?





  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.




  Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Beyond 'Muslim Rage'
Making Sense of 'Anti-Americanism' in the Islamic World
Weis  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.


  Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Arabic Language Table
When: Every Tuesday, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Where: Kline dining area


  Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Arabic Language Table
When: Every Tuesday, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Where: Kline dining area


  Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Arabic Language Table
When: Every Tuesday, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Where: Kline dining area


  Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Arabic Language Table
When: Every Tuesday, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Where: Kline dining area


  Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Arabic Language Table
When: Every Tuesday, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Where: Kline dining area


  Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Arabic Language Table
When: Every Tuesday, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Where: Kline dining area


  Monday, March 26, 2012
The People Want?
Poetry, Slogan and Revolutionary Repertoire in Egypt
Olin 102 
Elliott Colla
Associate Professor of Arabic & Islamic Studies, Georgetown University


  Wednesday, March 21, 2012
"Four Women of Egypt"
Olin LC 115 
Dir. Tahani Rached
Egypt/Canada, 1997
90 minutes, Arabic with English subtitles


  Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Arabic Language Table
When: Every Tuesday, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Where: Kline dining area


  Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Arabic Language Table
When: Every Tuesday, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Where: Kline dining area


  Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Arabic Language Table
When: Every Tuesday, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Where: Kline dining area


  Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Revisiting Guantanamo
Human Rights and Law in the American Empire
Olin 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


  Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Arabic Language Table
When: Every Tuesday, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Where: Kline dining area



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