Please come and meet Daoud Nasser, a Palestinian Christian Farmer who has turnedhis farm into an organic learning center for peace and reconciliation while he has struggled to keep the land.
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Don't miss investigative journalist and Nation Books author Jeremy Scahill at The New School in New York City on May 31st. Scahill will be in conversation with Spencer Ackerman, a national security reporter and blogger for Wired magazine.
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A devised performance based on the testimonies of Greek refugees of Asia Minor (1922) USA premiere
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Turkish Program Lecture Series presents Words & Acts: Scripture vs. Universe, with Yamina Bougenaya.
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A conference led by Souleymane Bachir Diagne. How and why was the commandment of prayer established? What is its significance in connection with the Prophet's Ascent (Mi'raj)? How should we comprehend the time of prayer as different from the serial time of our works and days? How should we understand also the different times of the five prayers?
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A talk with Professor Abdou Filali-Ansary, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations, Aga Khan University, UK.
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Join us for a conversation with Wheeler Thackston, Professor of Persian and other Near Eastern Languages & Literature Harvard University.
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Columbia University Department of Anthropology Franz Boas Seminar presentsMayssun Succarie, Arcapita Visiting Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Columbia University
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Please join us for a panel discussion with videos and presentations by representatives from the Jenin Freedom Theatre in Palestine. Distinguished panelists include Faisal Abu Alheja, Ahmad Al-Rokh and Gary English.
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A discussion with Richard Payne, assistant professor in Mount Holyoke College's Department of History and a visiting research scholar at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (NYU).
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Dr. Seyed Masoud Noori, Former Faculty Member at the Center for Human Rights Studies at Mofid University in Qom, Iran and currently a Visiting Scholar at Emory Law, will explain the relationship between Shariah and state law in Muslim-majority countries' constitutions approved since 2000...
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Film showing and discussion with Heidi Grunebaum and James Schamus.
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Join us for a screening of short films and videos followed by a q&a with Syrian playwright and activist Mohammad Al Attar and theatre director Eyad Houssami, editor of Doomed by Hope: Essays on Arab Theatre.
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In December of 2008 Israel launched a devastating attack on Gaza. A month of bullets, bombs, rockets, white phosphorus, tanks and bulldozers left 1400, mostly civilians, dead and this section of Occupied Palestine in rubble. Where Should the Birds Fly? is a compelling and moving Palestinian film based on the story of two remarkable young women, the future of Palestine, who personify the struggle to maintain humanity, humor and hope, to find some degree of normality in the brutal abnormality that has been imposed on them and Palestinians.
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Join us for a talk with former Ambassador Richard Murphy. Murphy has been following Middle Eastern developments for over 50 years. His assignments in the US Foreign Service included service in Aleppo, Syria, Jidda, Saudi Arabia and then Amman, Jordan during the 1967 war.
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The French Graduate Students Association is pleased to announce the 2013 Student Symposium, exploring humanism and its critics.
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Co-sponsored by NYU's departments of Cinema Studies and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies; African Film Festival, Inc.; and with the support of the Algerian Embassy in DC, and General Consulate in NY.
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A violin prodigy, she studied with Isaac Stern in Tel Aviv, before immigrating to the US where she developed her signature style.
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