Co-sponsor: Columbia Iranian Network

Co-sponsor: SIPA Turkish Initiative

"Inscription on Stone: Education, Hegemony, and Religion in Iran and Turkey" 

Co-sponsors: Department of International and Transcultural Studies, Teachers College

Event Program

Co-sponsors: Institute for Research in African American Studies, Maison Francaise, French-American Foundation, Africana Studies, Institute of African Studies, French Embassy and Women's Studies of Barnard College

"Holy Ignorance: The Age of Religion without Culture" 

Co-sponsor: Alliance Program, the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life (IRCPL), and the Heyman Center

MEMORIES IN SOUND II: Concert and Post-Intermission Discussion with Turkish Composer Munir Nurettin Beken

Co-Sponsors: The Music and Music Education Program, and the Office of the President, Diversity and Community Affairs at Teachers College

"When Democratization Radicalizes? The Kurdish Nationalist Movement in Turkey"

With Prof. Gunes Murat Tezcur and Prof. Macartan Humphreys

Contact: Ahmet Kuru or visit http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/cdtr
Co-sponsors: Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion (CDTR), the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP), and the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life (IRCPL)

"The Headscarf Ban and Women's Subjectivity in Turkey"

With Zeynep Akbulut Kuru and Nadia Guessous

Co-sponsors: Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion (CDTR), the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP), and the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life (IRCPL)
For more information, please visit http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/cdtr

"The Oil Booms and the Changing World of Baku" 

Co-sponsor: Harriman Institute

"Truths, Half Truths and Fallacies in the Prevailing Oil Conventional Wisdom" 

Co-sponsor: Alliance Program

"The Power of Representation: Publics, Peasants, and Islam in Egypt"
 

Big Read: The Thief and the Dogs Dance Performance
 

"Bureaucracy, Knowledge, and Control: Governing Minorities in Turkey and Israel"

With Ceren Belge and Prof. George Gavrilis

Co-sponsors: Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion (CDTR), the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP), the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life (IRCPL)
Contact: Ahmet Kuru or visit http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/cdtr

"Democratization in the Arab World" 

Co-Sponsors: The Alliance Program, and the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life

The Sufi Ceremony of Rumi

"Governing Areas of Dissidence: Nation-Building and State-Minority Relations in Turkey and Morocco"
Speaker: Senem Aslan

Co-sponsors: the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life; the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion, and the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP).

Big Read: Lecture on Egyptian Archaeology—From the Stone Age to Rome: Excavating in an Egyptian Oasis
 

Big Read: Parallel Lives 

Location: Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz Memorial and Education Center (3940 Broadway, at 165th Street)

Big Read: Mahfouz's Metamorphoses 

 

"Two Worlds, One History: An Arab-African Narrative Explored"
With Mahmood Mamdani, Souleymane Diagne, Ousmane Kane, and Hisham Aidi

Co-sponsor: Turath -- Arab Students Association at Columbia University, Institute of African Studies

Big Read: "Egypt Dances" 

 

Big Read: Celebrating Mahfouz 
Chased by the Dogs (125min) at 12:00 pm
Midaq Alley (140min) at 3:00 pm

 

"Big Read Opening Ceremony and Reception: A Talk on The Thief and the Dogs" 

Screening of the film adaptation of the book to follow talk (Chased by the Dogs, 1964)