Join us as Nursuna Memeca discusses what it mean to be a woman in parliament and the challenges and risks faced by women in government.
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Please join the Center for Palestine Studies for a book discussion with Ahmad Amara, John Sheehan and Brinkley Messick. Indigenous (in)Justice addresses property issues related to indigenous Palestinians and Bedouin Arabs in the Naqab/Negev from a comparative and international legal perspective.
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Join critically acclaimed historian Rashid Khalidi, as he discusses his latest publication Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East.
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Seeking Palestine is a newly published collection of fifteen innovative and outstanding Palestinian writers, essayists, poets, novelists, critics, artists, and memoirists responding with their reflections, experiences, memories and polemics.
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Join us for a discussion with Dr. Fida Adely on her new book: Gendered Paradoxes: Educating Jordanian Women in Nation, Faith, and Progress. Dr. Adely is an Assistant Professor at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown.
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The martyrdom of Husayn - the grandson of Prophet Muhammad - in the Battle of Karbala on the tenth of Muharram (Ashura) 680 AD has been seen as a defining moment in the history of Islam, particularly within the Shi'i community. Contemporary Social Movements and the Karbala Paradigm is an event that will discuss the impact that Karbala has had on modern societies, Muslim and non-Muslim alike.
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Join us for the book launch of Sketches of Iran--a collection of drawings, portraits and editorial cartoons on human rights themes by internationally acclaimed Iranian artists, accompanied by commentary and personal narratives by leading Iranian scholars, activists, journalists, writers, filmmakers and family members of prisoners of conscience.
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Midway through Camus's classic The Stranger, an unnamed Arab is killed. Leaping from this moment and working backwards through possible histories of tangled romance, ethnic conflict, and random violence, playwright Betty Shamieh has crafted a new play inspired by this unknown character.
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