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February 2022
‘War in Yemen’ with Stacey Philbrick Yadav (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff are invited to join the Carolina Seminar on Middle East Studies, organized by Professor Sarah Shields in conjunction with her course, “HIST 276: The Modern Middle East.” Each lecture features a guest expert on contemporary events. Stacey Philbrick Yadav is Associate Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Yadav’s research focuses on the role of Islamist organizations in the transformation of public spheres and over the past ten years, she has…
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Delhi to Damascus
Sandeep Das, one of the world's leading tabla virtuosos, returns to Carolina Performing Arts with the renowned HUM Ensemble for Delhi to Damascus, a new concert celebrating the shared history between India and the Middle East and inspired by the Sanskrit phrase Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, meaning “the world is one family." A Guggenheim Fellow and Grammy Award recipient, Sandeep Das is one of India’s top tabla maestros and composers, building a prolific international reputation that spans over three decades. He has performed…
Find out more »‘Gender Questions: Iran’ with Claudia Yaghoobi (UNC)
UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff are invited to join the Carolina Seminar on Middle East Studies, organized by Professor Sarah Shields in conjunction with her course, “HIST 276: The Modern Middle East.” Each lecture features a guest expert on contemporary events. Claudia Yaghoobi is the Roshan Institute Associate Professor in Persian Studies and director of the Persian program in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Yaghoobi is a scholar of literary criticism, comparative literature, gender and sexuality…
Find out more »April 2022
‘A Discussion of Lebanon’ with Ziad Abu-Rish (Bard College)
UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff are invited to join the Carolina Seminar on Middle East Studies, organized by Professor Sarah Shields in conjunction with her course, “HIST 276: The Modern Middle East.” Each lecture features a guest expert on contemporary events. Professor Abu-Rish is a scholar of the modern Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. His research centers around state formation, economic development, and popular mobilizations, particularly in Lebanon and Jordan. His teaching experience includes undergraduate and graduate…
Find out more »September 2022
A Night of Armenian Duduk Music and Middle Eastern Poetry
Join the UNC Center for the Middle East & Islamic Studies and Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies for a night of music and poetry as guest musician from Beirut, Raffi Chilingirian, will play the Armenian duduk (wind instrument) while our faculty will read Arabic, Turkish, and Persian poetry. After the music and poetry performance, a panel will discuss the significance of duduk for Armenian heritage and the diaspora, the ways that dudk has traveled to other countries in…
Find out more »Prospects for Peace: The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process
The Biden administration has moved on from the tempting prospect of negotiating a comprehensive Israeli-Palestinian peace deal. But elections in Israel, potential leadership succession for the Palestinian Authority, and the Abraham Accords regional peace agreements all have implications for the conflict going forward. Join Ambassador Dennis Ross in a conversation with former Palestinian negotiator Ghaith al-Omari about the current state of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This event is a Diplomatic Discussion hosted by UNC Hillel and co-sponsored by Carolina Center for…
Find out more »November 2022
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire in Palestine
Covering more than two hundred years of history, Caroline Elkins reveals an evolutionary and racialized doctrine that espoused an unrelenting deployment of violence to secure and preserve the nation’s imperial interests. She outlines how ideological foundations of violence were rooted in the Victorian era calls for punishing recalcitrant “natives,” and how over time, its forms became increasingly systematized. And she makes clear that when Britain could no longer maintain control over the violence it provoked and enacted, it retreated from empire,…
Find out more »The Center for the Middle East and Islamic Studies 20th Year Anniversary: Comedy and Hip-Hop Show
Students, faculty, and members of the community are all invited to join us for an evening of entertainment featuring Tehran Ghasri, a Black-Persian stand-up comedian, followed by a performance by Syrian-American hip-hop artist Omar Offendum and accompanied by Palestinian-American musician Ronnie Malley and NC local DJ Rang. More about the performers: Tehran Ghasri is a comedian, actor, host, television and radio personality, and philosopher with a law degree. Self-described as part Black, part Persian and part amazing, Tehran has been compared to a mix of Dave Chappelle…
Find out more »Film Screening: ‘The Water Diviner (Son Umut)’
This film the delves into the story of Australian father Joshua Connor, fantastically portrayed by film director Russell Crowe. Unfortunately, ensuing World War One’s battle of Gallipoli (Çanakkale), Connor’s three sons never return from war. After losing his wife to the heartbreak of losing her children, he leaves Australia to traverse the remaining, barren war landscapes of Gallipoli in search of them. There he meets a beautiful Turkish woman moved by his story, later offering her help and connections. The…
Find out more »March 2023
The Center for the Middle East and Islamic Studies 20th year anniversary: Comedy and Hip-Hop Show
Students, faculty, and members of the community are all invited to join us for an evening of entertainment featuring Tehran Ghasri, a Black-Persian stand-up comedian, followed by a performance by Syrian-American hip-hop artist Omar Offendum and accompanied by Palestinian-American musician Ronnie Malley and NC local DJ Rang. More about the performers: Tehran Ghasri is a comedian, actor, host, television and radio personality, and philosopher with a law degree. Self-described as part Black, part Persian and part amazing, Tehran has been compared to a mix of Dave…
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