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
Please join the UNC Center for Middle East & Islamic Studies via Zoom for the next monthly meeting of Urdu Majlis, the Triangle’s Literary Forum, on Saturday, October 17, at 12:30 PM. The featured poet is Bismil Saeedi (1901-1977). In … Read more
Part of the 2020-21 Speaker Series, "Blackness in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies" "Blackness in Malaysia and Indonesia: Stories from the Field" by Professor Timothy Daniels. Moderated by Kevin Fogg, associate director, Carolina Asia Center. Daniels is professor of anthropology … 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
Please join the UNC Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies via Zoom for the next monthly meeting of Urdu Majlis, the Triangle’s Literary Forum, on Saturday, November 14, at 12:30 p.m. The featured poet is Shakeel Badayuni (1916-1970). This … Read more
Join the University Libraries and the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill on February 4 at 12:00 p.m. as a part of The Kitab Talk series to learn more about Hazine. Hazine was started by two … Read more
Join the UNC Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, the University Libraries and Jasmine Soliman on March 2 at 12:00 p.m. for a Kitab Talk on the photographic heritage of the Middle East. Akkasah, the Center for Photography at … Read more
The UNC Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies is hosting a discussion on the current state of U.S.-Saudi relations with Victor MacFarland of the University of Missouri. The discussion will include the fallout from the assassination of the journalist … Read more
Israeli journalist Amir Tibon (Ha'aretz Newspaper) will discuss the stakes of the March 23 Israeli election, and the challenges the current political situation presents to the foundation of Israeli democracy. Will Netanyahu get a majority coalition and cancel his own … Read more
