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September 2021
Kitab Talk: ‘The Arabic Collections Online Project’ with Guy Burak and David Millman
Arabic Collections Online (ACO) is a partnership of several major research libraries in the United States and the Middle East to digitize the Arabic monographs in their collections and make them freely accessible to the world. ACO consists of more than 17,000 volumes from most Arabic-speaking countries, Turkey and Iran. This presentation will offer an overview of the project and the collection. The speakers will discuss some of the challenges they have faced over the years. Speakers: Guy Barak, Middle…
Find out more »Virtual: Iranian Literary Diasporas: Parvaneh Hosseini in Conversation with Author Hamed Esmaeilion
This virtual lecture series is dedicated to exploring how Iranian diaspora authors reflect on the community’s attempts at carving out forms of belonging to their host nations. Authors and discussants may address specific modes of power and representation that Iranian diaspora community has developed to rehabilitate their position as members of a minoritized population with ambivalent feelings of belonging. September 25, 2021 @ 12:00pm-1:00pm Parvaneh Hosseini in Conversation with author Hamed Esmaeilion Register here. Convener: Claudia Yaghoobi, Roshan Associate Professor…
Find out more »October 2021
Lecture: ‘The Well and the Water Machine: The History of Desalination and Fossil-Fueled Water in the Long Shadow of Arabia’s Climate-Altered Future’
It is an undisputed truism that the story of the 20th-century Arabian Peninsula is synonymous with the story of oil. Particularly after the 1973 oil crisis, exploding oil prices launched the region into significant socio-economic transformations. And while oil infrastructure has rightfully been understood as the lifeblood of this growth, another infrastructure remained virtually invisible, desalination facilities. Despite this seeming invisibility, desalination has become a defining material feature of life in the Arabian Peninsula. Since the 1970s and even before,…
Find out more »November 2021
The BBC’s Framing of the Syrian Refugee Crisis
This virtual event is part of the TransAtlantic Masters Program Fall Friday Lecture Series. Sergul is a Turkish national. While in the TransAtlantic Masters program, she studied in Prague and Paris. Following four years in journalism and corporate communication, she started a doctoral program in media and communications at Galatasaray University, Istanbul in 2015. She now lives in Utrecht. Since early 2020, she has worked at Erasmus University Rotterdam as a lecturer and primarily teaches organizational and corporate communication & supervises…
Find out more »January 2022
The Diplomacy Initiative: Meet the Mentors
The American College of National Security Leaders (ACNSL) and the Office of the Vice Provost for Global Affairs at UNC-Chapel Hill are piloting a program to enable undergraduate and graduate students to explore careers in national security and related fields. In Meet the Mentors, five ACNSL mentors will introduce themselves and describe their diverse career backgrounds. Introductions will be followed by breakout sessions in which students can chat with each mentor. Meet the Mentors is a great opportunity for students to find a mentor (or mentors) to meet with throughout the semester during the mentors’ office hours. There will be two virtual Meet the Mentors sessions that will…
Find out more »The Diplomacy Initiative: Meet the Mentors
The American College of National Security Leaders (ACNSL) and the Office of the Vice Provost for Global Affairs at UNC-Chapel Hill are piloting a program to enable undergraduate and graduate students to explore careers in national security and related fields. In Meet the Mentors, five ACNSL mentors will introduce themselves and describe their diverse career backgrounds. Introductions will be followed by breakout sessions in which students can chat with each mentor. Meet the Mentors is a great opportunity for students to find a mentor (or mentors) to meet with throughout the semester during the mentors’ office hours. There will be two virtual Meet the Mentors sessions that will…
Find out more »Iranian Literary Diaspora: Mehrak Kamali in Conversation with Author Shahriar Mandanipour
This virtual lecture series is dedicated to exploring how Iranian diaspora authors reflect on the community’s attempts at carving out forms of belonging to their host nations. Authors and discussants may address specific modes of power and representation that Iranian diaspora community has developed to rehabilitate their position as members of a minoritized population with ambivalent feelings of belonging. Shahriar Mandanipour is an Iranian American writer, literary theorist, and essayist. He is the author of 13 books – his fourteenth…
Find out more »‘Harik Revolution and Culture in Algeria’ with Muriam Haleh Davis (UC Santa Cruz)
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. Muriam Haleh Davis is Assistant Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz. Her research interests focus on development, decolonization and race in North Africa. Her first book, Markets of Civilization: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria will be published with…
Find out more »February 2022
‘Water in Israel/Palestine’ with Nadav Tal (EcoPeace)
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. Nadav Tal is Water Officer at EcoPeace. EcoPeace Middle East, formerly Friends of the Earth Middle East, is a regional environmental peacebuilding organization in the Middle East, bringing together Jordanians, Palestinians, and Israelis to create shared solutions for…
Find out more »Virtual: ‘Reporting from Jerusalem: Behind the Headlines with NPR International Correspondent Daniel Estrin’
NPR International Correspondent Daniel Estrin joins the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies from Jerusalem to share reflections on his recent reporting about the ordinary and extraordinary lives of Israelis and Palestinians. Estrin has reported from the Middle East for over a decade, including seven years with the Associated Press. Since joining NPR in 2017, he has reported from Israel, Gaza, the West Bank, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates. Other reporting has taken him to Britain,…
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