Past News Articles
February 8, 2024
Join us on Zoom on March 4 (5pm EST) to listen to Dr. Fariba Zarinebaf (UC Riverside)'s lecture on "Silk in Ottoman Safavid Trade, Warfare, and Urban Life in the Early Modern Period". Registration link: https://go.unc.edu/Zarinebaf
January 8, 2024
UNC Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, other campus partners Tuesday, Jan. 30, 5:30 p.m. Moeser Auditorium, Hill Hall Cornel West, the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Professor of Philosophy & Christian Practice at Union Theological Seminary, will speak about comparative movements, both historical and contemporary, and what [...]
December 29, 2023
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 [...]
November 30, 2023
Panel: Whistling Bodies: the Social Power of Collective Sound” Wednesday, December 6 | 11 AM Duke University Zoom Artist Aliaskar Abarkas in conversation with Maria Fantinato G. Siqueira (Duke University) and Paniz Musawi Natanzi (Duke University) In this event, Iran-born and London-based artist Aliaskar Abarkas will present his on-going project [...]
November 30, 2023
Panel: “Nagorno-Karabakh: Conflict, Humanitarian Crisis, and the Future” with Dr. Artyom Tonoyan and Dr. Arman Grigoryan Monday, December 4 | 12:00-1:30 PM Zoom (register for link) Amid Soviet Union’s dissolution in 1991, just as Armenia and Azerbaijan achieved statehood, Nagorno-Karabakh, a strategic sliver of mountainous land in [...]
November 30, 2023
North Carolina Jewish Studies Seminar: Welcomes Orit Bashkin Sunday, December 3 | 3:00 PM John Hope Franklin Center, Ahmadieh Family Conference Hall, Room 240 Duke University Please contact serena.elliott@duke.edu for the pre-circulated paper. Seminar participation presupposes engagement with the paper. Baskin is a professor in the Department of Near Eastern [...]
November 30, 2023
Lecture: “Piety and Longing: Ibn ‘Arabi’s Dialogue with Women Poets at the Kaaba 13 c.” Wednesday, November 29 | 7:00 PM Perkins LINK 70 (Seminar 4) Duke University With Michael Sells: John Henry Barrows Professor of Islamic History and Literature University of Chicago Sponsored by: AMES, DUMESC, [...]
November 6, 2023
Thursday, November 16 | 6:00-7:30 PM FedEx Global Center – GEC-1005 UNC-CH "Curing Mother Iran” explores how recurring cases of the cholera epidemic in the nineteenth century facilitated the deployment of medical prognosis and diagnosis in Iranian politics. It also explains how the shift from humoral to microbial hygiene led [...]
November 6, 2023
Wednesday, November 15 | 11 AM Duke University Zoom - contact us for Zoom link This event investigates aesthetic archival practices between Iran and Pakistan and their entanglements with political ecologies. It focuses on the artwork of the artists Maryam Baniasadi and Marjan Baniasadi. Marjan and Maryam are twin sisters [...]