Past News Articles

  • January 30, 2025

    Please visit this webpage for more details closer to the event date.

  • January 30, 2025

    This webpage will be updated closer to the date of the event.

  • January 30, 2025

    Join us in celebrating Arab American Heritage Month on April 10th starting at 3:30pm. This event will be held at Al-Iman School in Raleigh (address: 3020 Ligon St, Raleigh, NC 27607). This webpage will be updated closer to the event.

  • January 30, 2025

    Please join us and Muslim Students Association (MSA) on March 18th for Iftar. This event will start at 5:30pm.

  • January 30, 2025

    Please join us on Feb 18 for a meet and greet with Yusuf Sezgin, a PhD candidate in the Department of History. Yusuf’s reasearch interests include “decolonization, postcolonialism, the ideas of religion, social justice and liberation in the Global South, Christian and Muslim liberation theologies, and contemporary Muslim political thought.”

  • January 30, 2025

    Graduate students who plan to submit conference paper proposals to MESA, AAR, and other conferences with submission deadlines in February and March, are invited to attend a conference paper proposal party! Gather together to brainstorm and begin the process of writing your conference paper proposal.    

  • January 21, 2025

    Memories & Futures in Middle East Studies–Temporalities, Nostalgias, Anxieties   Description: This interdisciplinary conference of North Carolina-based scholars of the Middle East studies aims to illuminate the complex interplay between memory and futurity, fostering critical conversations about how historical narratives and collective memories shape contemporary realities and future possibilities in [...]

  • January 21, 2025

    On April 2, Professor Lior Sternfeld (Pennsylvania State University) will be giving a lecture on "How WWII Changed Iran’s Social, Political, and Cultural Landscape: Nationalism, Political Participation, and Anti-Semitism".   During World War II, millions of refugees fled their homes and were displaced across Europe, central Asia, and the Middle [...]

  • January 21, 2025

    Nowruz celebration and film screening. Please visit our event page at a later date for more details.

  • January 21, 2025

    As part of the AY 2024-25 CMEIS Lecture Series, Dr. Amal Eqeiq (Williams College) will be joining us on February 20th to discuss "Brush Strokes of Global Dissent: On South-South Solidarities".

  • November 11, 2024

    As part of the 2024-2025 Annual CMEIS Lecture Series, Art(s) of Protest: Social Movements, Artistic Practices, Literary Reimaginings," Dr. Amal Eqeiq (Williams College -- https://arabic.williams.edu/profile/ae8/) will be joining us for a talk titled: "Brush Strokes of Global Dissent: On South-South Solidarities".   Date & Time: February 20, 2025 from 6:00-7:30pm. [...]

  • November 11, 2024

    As part of the 2024-2025 Annual CMEIS Lecture Series, Art(s) of Protest: Social Movements, Artistic Practices, Literary Reimaginings," Dr. Annette Damayanti Lienau (Harvard University -- https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/people/annette-damayanti-lienau) will be joining us for a book talk titled: "Sacred Language, Vernacular Difference: Global Arabic and Counter-Imperial Literature".   Time: TBD Location: FedEx Global [...]