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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Wednesday, November 15 | 8 AM, 9 PM BJT Duke University Zoom - contact us for link Egypt today is more divided than ever along ethnic and religious lines. Social discrimination against Coptic Christians, for example, has increased since the regime transition after the 2011 Arab uprisings. What do daily [...]

Friday, November 10 | 3:00 PM Nasher Museum Auditorium Duke University In this Sinica live taping, legendary podcast host Kaiser Kuo will sit down with acclaimed writer Peter Hessler to discuss his work on China and Egypt. Kaiser Kuo Kaiser Kuo is the host of the Sinica Podcast, the leading [...]

Thursday, November 9 | 5:30 PM Rubenstein Library Holsti- Anderson Assembly Room 153 Duke University   While travelling in Mallawi, a small city in Upper Egypt, Peter Hessler happened to meet a Chinese couple who had set up shop in a local market. He was surprised to find foreigners in [...]