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On November 3, as part of the 2025–26 UNC-CH CMEIS Annual Academic Lecture Series, artists, scholars, and authors Danielle Dardashti and Galeet Dardashti will discuss their documentary podcast series, The Nightingale of Iran.   

As part of the 2025–26 UNC-CH CMEIS Annual Academic Lecture Series, on October 1 we will screen the documentary The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life, followed by a Q&A session with co-director, Dr. Persis Karim (San Francisco State University).  This 60-minute documentary explores the history, struggles, and [...]

As part of the 2025-26 UNC-CH CMEIS Annual Lecture Series, artist Maryam Safajoo will speak about her exhibition, My Bitter Childhood Window. The exhibition will be on display from August 8 to September 25, open on weekdays from 7:30AM-7:30PM in the FedEx Global Education Center atrium. A reception will be held [...]

On August 28, CMEIS is excited to kick off the AY 25-26 CMEIS Annual Lecture Series with a talk by Dr. Dominic Brookshaw (University of Oxford). The lecture will explore the feminist essays of Esmat Ashtiyani. This event will also include a welcome reception in the FedEx Global Education Center [...]

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 [...]