The Turkish Circle at Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University presents Dilara Maya and Irem Altan. They will share their stories as young scholars moving from Turkey to the Triangle through … Read more
Join the UNC Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies for another fun game of online trivia on the Middle East! This entertaining and informative evening will feature questions related to Middle Eastern cultures. Test your knowledge with questions on … Read more
Interested in the field of Middle East Studies? Test your knowledge of the region with a fun, online trivia game and learn about different related majors and minors offered on campus. Stay for a virtual discussion with students, faculty, and … Read more
UNSETTLING BORDERS 2020 CONFERENCE This virtual conference explores how Middle Eastern refugee and immigrant experiences provide insights into the production of difference, boundaries, and borders by unsettling established understandings of identity, statehood, and territory in and on the edges of … Read more
Queer Refugees and Queering Refugee Studies This panel places queer refugee experiences and queer refugee studies at the forefront of larger discussions of political asylum, global or transnational perceptions of queerness, and overlapping systems of governance. Rather than treating queer … Read more
Midnight Traveler: Uncertain Journeys to and through EU This panel will focus on the film Midnight Traveler, a 2019 documentary filmed on cell phone cameras by an asylum-seeking filmmaker and his family traveling from Afghanistan to Europe. This documentary is … Read more
Racialization of Refugees in the EU This panel focuses broadly on the ways that refugees and other migrants from the Middle East to Europe experience and/or respond to discrimination and exclusion. The panel hopes to better understand how both new … Read more
Learning, Teaching and Community-Building with Refugees This roundtable brings together scholars, activists, and NGO volunteers to discuss how to learn from and with refugees, teach about refugees, and engage with refugee communities. What are the strategies for resisting the racialization … Read more
