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The Past into the Future: Afrofuturism and Ancient Egypt

  Friday, March 17, 2023
  2 p.m.
  470 Stephens Hall

The Culture of the Copy: Articulations of Painting in the late Ottoman Empire and Early Republican Turkey

  Thursday, March 16, 2023
  3:30 - 5 p.m.
  308A Doe Library

REI Colloquium: Uncovering Histories of Labor and Empire in the Yemeni Diaspora

  Tuesday, March 14, 2023
  12 - 1:30 p.m.
  ONLINE - Register via Zoom Moses Hall

Sara Omar - Lecture

  Monday, March 13, 2023
  4 p.m.
  340 Stephens Hall

Exhibit: Letters | الحروف How Artists Reimagined Language in the Age of Decolonization

  Monday, March 13, 2023
  Bernice Layne Brown Gallery Doe Library

Continuity and Change: Tracing the Genealogy of the Lot Narrative

  Monday, March 13, 2023
  4 p.m.
  340 Stephens Hall

Dr. Lisa Nielson

  Friday, March 10, 2023
  4:30 - 6 p.m.
  128 Morrison Hall

Tattooed Women, Bes, and the Marsh: Connecting Tattooed Bodies and Figurines at Deir el-Medina, Egypt

  Thursday, March 9, 2023
  9:30 - 10:30 a.m.
  Virtual event

Film: "Miguel's War"

  Thursday, March 9, 2023
  4 p.m.
  340 Stephens Hall

2023 Summer Opportunities Fair

  Monday, March 6, 2023
  2 - 4 p.m.
  Lower Sproul Plaza

Framing Heimat in Translation: Peyman Azhari in Conversation with Kristin Dickinson

  Friday, March 3, 2023
  12 - 1:30 p.m.
  Zoom

“Palestine and the Global Revolution”

  Thursday, February 23, 2023
  4 p.m.
  340 Stephens Hall

On Refugee Revolutions: Rethinking Palestinian Anti-Colonialism in the Global Age of Liberation

  Thursday, February 23, 2023
  4 p.m.
  340 Stephens Hall

Lecture by Walid Saleh--CANCELED

  Wednesday, February 22, 2023
  4 p.m.
  340 Stephens Hall

How progressive Islam can help overcome deep sectarian thought

  Tuesday, February 21, 2023
  4 p.m.
  340 Stephens Hall

Women Priests and Orientalist Fantasies: A New Look at the Mesopotamian Qadistu

  Thursday, February 16, 2023
  9:30 - 10:30 a.m.
  Virtual event

From Trans-Atlantic Order to Afro-Eur-Asian Worlds? Reimagining IR as Interlocking Regional Worlds

  Wednesday, February 15, 2023
  12 - 1 p.m.
  201 Moses Hall

The 110th Martin Meyerson Berkeley Faculty Research Lectures

  Monday, February 13, 2023
  4 - 5 p.m.
  Chevron Auditorium International House

"Braids of Innocence" listening party

  Thursday, February 9, 2023
  4 p.m.
  340 Stephens Hall

Talk Title: Race, Racism, and Ethnicity

  Thursday, February 9, 2023
  5 - 6 p.m.
  254 Social Sciences Building

Contested Meanings of Zionism in Israel/Palestine

  Wednesday, February 8, 2023
  12:45 p.m.
  105 Law Building

Saharan Vichy Camps between Memory and Memorialization: A Graphic History

  Thursday, February 2, 2023
  5 p.m.
  340 Stephens Hall

The Rise of the Western Armenian Diaspora in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire: From Refugee Crisis to Renaissance

  Tuesday, January 24, 2023
  5:30 - 7 p.m.
  3335 Dwinelle Hall

Raising Children in Ancient Israel

  Thursday, January 12, 2023
  9 - 10 a.m.
  Virtual event

Book Talk | "Turkish Politics and ‘The People’: Mass Mobilisation and Populism"

  Wednesday, December 7, 2022
  11 a.m.
  340 Stephens Hall

Book talk: "Turkish Politics and ‘The People’: Mass Mobilisation and Populism"

  Wednesday, December 7, 2022
  11 a.m.
  340 Stephens Hall

CANCELED: "Turkish Politics and ‘The People’: Mass Mobilisation and Populism"

  Wednesday, December 7, 2022
  11 a.m.
  340 Stephens Hall

[Online] FLAS Info Session

  Monday, December 5, 2022
  10 - 11 a.m.
  Online - Zoom webinar

Anthropology Distinguished Lecture

  Thursday, December 1, 2022
  4 p.m.
  The Morrison Library Doe Library

Legitimizing the Past: Conservation, Expertise and the Power of Transformation

  Wednesday, November 30, 2022
  12:10 - 1 p.m.
  Virtual event

Talk | Mediterranean Crosscurrents, Eurasian Contexts: The Fall of “Crusader” Acre and the Rise of Mamluk Egypt (c.1250-1291)

  Wednesday, November 30, 2022
  4 p.m.
  340 Stephens Hall

Online Workshop | Rooted to Rise: Root Letters in the Qur'an and Torah

  Thursday, November 17, 2022
  4 p.m.
  Zoom

Post-screening Discussion of "Coup 53" [Zoom event]

  Thursday, November 10, 2022
  4:30 p.m.
  Zoom

Dilemmas of Peace: Comparing the Greek and Armenian Communities during the Armistice period, 1918-1923

  Friday, April 29, 2022
  9:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.
  Online via Zoom

Arab American Studies: What It Is and Why it Matters

  Thursday, April 28, 2022
  12 - 1:30 p.m.
  Online via Zoom

Poetry | Reading | Performance

  Friday, April 22, 2022
  4 - 5:30 p.m.
  340 Stephens Hall

Motherhood and Photography

  Monday, April 18, 2022
  5 - 6:30 p.m.
  340 Stephens Hall & Zoom

Is Reading Different? Philosophy of History and the Problem of Context

  Friday, April 15, 2022
  4 - 5:30 p.m.
  340 Stephens Hall & Zoom

Speculative Soundscapes: Alternative Music and Futurity in Lebanon

  Tuesday, April 12, 2022
  12 - 1:30 p.m.
  Online via Zoom; registration is required for Zoom link

Knowledge in Mesopotamia and Beyond: A Tribute to Prof. Francesca Rochberg

  Monday, April 11, 2022
  10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
  340 Stephens Hall & Zoom

50(+) years of Islam and the Arabs in Spanish Scholarship: Celebrating the Legacy of James T. Monroe

  Friday, April 1, 2022
  9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
  Online via Zoom

Ethnography and Social Art: Vehicles for Cultural Understanding and Social Change

  Wednesday, March 30, 2022
  12 - 1:30 p.m.
  Online via Zoom; registration required for Zoom link

Politicizing Abraham: Contemporary Uses and Abuses of a ‘Common’ Concept

  Thursday, March 17, 2022
  4 - 5:30 p.m.
  340 Stephens Hall

Making a Muslim: Reading Publics and Contesting Identities in 19th century North India

  Tuesday, March 15, 2022
  4 - 5 p.m.
  340 Stephens Hall & Zoom

Beyond Religion, Beyond Revelation: The Idea of the Secular in Medieval Islam

  Monday, March 14, 2022
  4 - 5 p.m.
  340 Stephens Hall

New Data Methods for Urban History of the Ottoman Mediterranean

  Friday, March 11, 2022
  10 - 11 a.m.
  Online via Zoom

Forgery and History in the Political Projects of Nineteenth-century Muslim West Africa: Aḥmad Lobbo’s Caliphate of Ḥamdallāhi and the Tārīkh al-fattāsh

  Thursday, March 10, 2022
  4 - 5 p.m.
  340 Stephens Hall

Middle Eastern Studies Librarian office hours

  Wednesday, March 9, 2022
  2 - 4 p.m.
  350 Stephens Hall

Ethical Archival Practices, Digital Humanities, and Community Engagement

  Friday, March 4, 2022
  9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
  Online via Zoom

Assyrians in Modern Iraq: Negotiating Political and Cultural Space

  Wednesday, February 23, 2022
  4 - 5:30 p.m.
  Online via Zoom

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