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‘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 … Read more

‘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 … Read more

A Night of Armenian Duduk Music and Middle Eastern Poetry

FedEx Global Education Center, Nelson Mandela Auditorium 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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) … Read more

Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire in Palestine

FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1005 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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 … Read more

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The Center for the Middle East and Islamic Studies 20th Year Anniversary: Comedy and Hip-Hop Show

Frank Porter Graham Student Union, Auditorium 209 South Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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 … Read more

Film Screening: ‘The Water Diviner (Son Umut)’

FedEx Global Education Center, DeBerry Board Room 3009 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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 … Read more

The Center for the Middle East and Islamic Studies 20th year anniversary: Comedy and Hip-Hop Show

Frank Porter Graham Student Union, Auditorium 209 South Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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 … Read more

Free