Past News Articles
March 25, 2023
Book talk: "The Hundred Years' War in Palestine" Tuesday April 4 | 7:00 PM Online - register here Dr. Rashid Khalidi will join Duke Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) for a conversation about his book, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine. Rashid Ismail Khalidi is an American historian [...]
March 25, 2023
Conversation "The Past, Present, and Future of the Pursuit of Israeli-Palestinian Peace” Tuesday, March 28 |5:00 - 6:45 pm Rhodes Conference Room (Sanford 223) Duke University Ghaith al-Omari, a senior fellow in The Washington Institute's Irwin Levy Family Program on the U.S.-Israel Strategic Relationship, is the former executive director of [...]
March 24, 2023
Book talk: "Jasūr Magazine X Nadia Bou Ali” Wednesday, March 29 |1:00 pm Online - register here Nadia Bou Ali, Associate Professor and Director of the Civilizational Studies Program at the American University of Beirut, joins us to discuss her most recent book, Psychoanalysis and the Love of Arabic: Hall [...]
March 22, 2023
Lecture: "Locusts of Power: Borders, Empire, and Environment in the Modern Middle East" Thursday, March 30, from 5:30 - 7:00 PM Pauli Murray (aka Hamilton) Hall 569 UNC - Chapel Hill In this original environmental history, Samuel Dolbee sheds new light on borders and state formation by following locusts and [...]
March 17, 2023
Discussion “Fashioning a Varied Career in History after UNC: Environmental History, UNC Honors, and Doing History for Public Audiences” Friday, March 31 |11:20-12:30 am Pauli Murray Hall 270 UNC - Chapel Hill Professor Samuel Dolbee teaches at Vanderbilt University in the History Department and the Climate Studies Program. His new [...]
March 16, 2023
Conversation: "Duaa Ghazi - Embrace Women” Sunday, April 2 | 4:00-5:15pm Online - Register here Duaa Ghazi is an Iraqi American woman who immigrated to America as a refugee in 2008. She is the co-founder of Embrace Women with the goal to empower immigrant women, especially those who may be [...]
March 13, 2023
Workshop: "Archive Iraq: Repairing Collective Memory of the Anglo-American Invasion and Occupation” Tuesday, March 21 | 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM Rubenstein Library 249, Carpenter Conference Room Duke University - RSVP here The hybrid workshop will take place March 21st, 2023, in memoriam the 20th anniversary of the 2003 U.S.-led [...]
March 9, 2023
Lecture: "Muslims and the Minority Question: A Global History, 1856-1947” Tuesday, April 4 | 6:00-7:30 PM FedEx Global Building 4003 (4th floor) UNC-Chapel Hill Dr. Roy Bar Sadeh is a global historian of the modern Middle East and its South Asian and Eurasian linkages. Roy received his PhD in history from Columbia University and he is currently [...]
March 7, 2023
Lecture: "An Evening with Naftali Bennett” Wednesday, March 22 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Page Auditorium Tickets available at tickets.duke.edu Naftali Bennett became Israel's 13th Prime Minister in 2021 leading the most diverse government in the nation's history. The government headed by Prime Minister Bennett - included Left & [...]
March 1, 2023
Art Exhibit – love letters: a unique alphabet by hatice örün Sancar Turkish Cultural & Community Center Saturday March 4, from 2-4pm - Brief presentation by Dr. Hatice Örün followed by opening reception with Turkish coffee/tea and desserts (tickets available here for $10) Running Sunday March 5 - Sunday April [...]
February 28, 2023
The Inaugural Joint Graduate Student Symposium of the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (DAMES), Global Studies, and TransAtlantic Master's Program March 2-3, FedEx Global Education Center RSVP here (required) Thursday, March 2 5:30-6:30pm Symposium Opening and Keynote Address - Dr. Urban Strandberg from the University of Gothenburg and International [...]
February 28, 2023
The Inaugural Joint Graduate Student Symposium of the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (DAMES), Global Studies, and TransAtlantic Master's Program March 2-3, FedEx Global Education Center RSVP here (required) Thursday, March 2 5:30-6:30pm Symposium Opening and Keynote Address - Dr. Urban Strandberg from the University of Gothenburg and International [...]
