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Dr. Amal Eqeiq will be joining the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies on March 20th to discuss “Brush Strokes of Global Dissent: On South-South Solidarities.” Dr. Eqeiq is Chair of Arabic Studies and Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Williams College. Her lecture will be based on work [...]

The scheduled event with Dr. Annette Damayanti Lienau has been cancelled due to unexpected illness. Dr. Lienau is unfortunately unable to travel to UNC at this time, but we hope to reschedule the talk and welcome her to campus in the fall. We at CMEIS apologize for any inconvenience caused [...]

Abstract: This guest lecture (and book signing) will be based on Dr. Sinno’s recent monograph, A War of Colors: Graffiti and Street Art in Postwar Beirut (University of Texas Press, 2024). Arguing that graffiti making is a dialogical, affective and embodied process, Dr. Sinno will provide a contextual analysis of Beirut’s postwar [...]

The CMEIS lecture series presents: "Things to remember when speaking of language inclusivity in the Arabic classroom". This online lecture is the second of a four-part lecture series. Dr. Laila Familiar from NYU Abu Dhabi will be speaking on Thursday, January 25 from 12-1:30pm.   Registration needed to receive Zoom [...]

Zvi Ben Dor Benite CMEIS Lecture Series: "The History of Chinese Muslims as a Link between China and the Middle East" Monday, February 6 | 5:30-7:00 PM Nelson Mandela Auditorium, FedEx Global Center UNC - Chapel Hill Dr. Zvi Ben Dor Benite is a professor in the Department [...]

Monday, March 27,  5:30-7:00pm Nelson Mandela Auditorium, FedEx Global Center UNC - Chapel Hill Presented by Dr. Mostafa Minawi, Professor of History at Cornell University. Losing Istanbul offers an intimate history of empire, following the rise and fall of a generation of Arab-Ottoman imperialists living in Istanbul. Mostafa Minawi shows [...]

In her new book "Sisters in the Mirror: A History of Muslim Women and the Global Politics of Feminism" Dr. Elora Shehabuddin presents a unique and engaging history of feminism as a story of colonial and postcolonial interactions between Western and Muslim societies. Dr. Shehabuddin is Professor of Gender and Women's [...]

Professor Arash-Davari CMEIS Lecture Series: "Human Rights Guerrillas: Iran between Global 1968 and Global 1979" Monday February 20 | 5:30-7:00 PM Nelson Mandela Auditorium UNC-Chapel Hill Dr Arash Davari is an assistant professor in the department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His writings [...]

Dr. Carolina Elkins, Professor of History at Harvard University  “Legacy of Violence: A History of British Empire in the Arab Middle East and Beyond” November 2022 Drawing on more than a decade of research on four continents, Pulitzer Prize winning historian Caroline Elkins implicates all sides of Britain's political divide [...]