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Virtual: Urdu Majlis on Fani Badayuni

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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, August 15, at 12:30 PM. The featured poet is Fani Badayuni (1879-1961). In … Read more

Virtual: Roundtable Discussion: Love, Laws and Changes

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This webinar is part of the series, “Revisiting Discourses of Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Iran and Diaspora: A Symposium in a Series of Panels.” Register in advance: go.unc.edu/Iran From their mundane to their sublime forms, love and desire have … Read more

Virtual: Cultural Event, Urdu Majlis on Bismil Saeedi

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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

Virtual: Poetry Reading ‘Urdu Majis on Bekhud Dehlv’

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Join the UNC Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies on March 20 at 1:00 p.m. for the next monthly meeting of Urdu Majlis, the Triangle’s Literary Forum. The featured poet is Bekhud Dehlvi (1863-1955). In the first half of … Read more

Book Talk: Waleed Ziad in Conversation with Rustin Zarkar

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The remarkable discoveries of over 300 new varieties of local copper currency from the Sakra region in northwestern Pakistan, covering a 700-year period, have opened up new vistas in the study of Gandhara in late antiquity. This monograph introduces the … Read more