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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 [...]

Dr. Elisabeth Leake, Lee Dirks Chair in Diplomatic History at The Fletcher School, Tufts University, “Afghan Crucible: Global History and Legacy of the 1979 Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan,” Co-Sponsored by History Department On 24 December 1979, Soviet armed forces entered Afghanistan, beginning an occupation that would last almost a decade [...]