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Lecture “Constitutionalism in Iranian Perception” Wednesday, April 26 |6:45 - 7:30 pm  Aria Cultural Center Duke University Dr. Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh is associate professor of history at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. A multiple award-winner for his scholarship and service, Dr. Farzaneh’s The Iranian Constitutional Revolution and the Clerical Leadership [...]

Film Screening “Holy Spider” Friday, April 21 |7:00-9:00pm Rubenstein Arts Center Film Theater Duke University A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so-called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets [...]

Lecture "Solivagant Adventures: Behind the Lens of an Itinerant Documentarian in Iran" Wednesday, April 19 | 6:45-8:30 PM Online via Zoom The Duke University Emamian Lectureship presents a lecture by photographer Sia Yazdanfar. Yazdanfar is a freelance photographer. His current series of exhibitions focus on traditional women’s clothing in different [...]

Gallery Exhibit "Restless Anahita" Saturday, April 15 | 4:00-7:00 PM Thomas Stevens Art Gallery 126 West King Street, Hillsborough, NC To celebrate World Art Day, Thomas Stevens Art Gallery in Hillsborough is unveiling its spring collection - exhibiting the work of photographer Sia Yazdanfar. The exhibit, named "Restless Anahita," features [...]

Photography Exhibition: “Solivagant Adventures: honoring the women of Iran” Thursday, April 13 | 2:00-3:00pm Ingram Building, MC11-103 Durham Technical Community College Join local Iranian photographer Sia Yazdanfar as he discusses his current exhibition at the Thomas Stevens Gallery, named Restless Anahita, honoring the women of Iran. Through photographs drawn from [...]

UNC Turkish Student Association presents a "Concert for Earthquake Relief in Turkey” Friday, April 28 |7:00 - 8:30 pm  Sonja Hayes Stone Center UNC - Chapel Hill Reserve tickets ($13 for students, $18 non-students) Please join us for UNC Turkish Student Association's Concert for Earthquake Relief in Turkey featuring performances [...]

Forum on Southeast Europe Bosnian Studies: Perspectives from an Emerging Field Tuesday, April 11 at 12:00pm noon Online - register here It has been 27 years since the end of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the history of the conflict, its consequences, and long-term implications for the politics and [...]

General Austin Scott Miller Conversation: "Leaving Afghanistan” with General Austin S. Miller, U.S. Army, Ret. Thursday, April 6 | 6:00-7:30 PM Sanford 04 - RSVP here Duke University General Austin Scott Miller spent nearly 40 years in uniform, serving in the Indo-Pacific, Africa, the Middle East, and South [...]

Concert: "SARASWATI - Goddess of Music" Wednesday, April 5 | 8:00 PM Moeser Auditorium, Hill Hall UNC-Chapel Hill *Free and open to the public UNC's  Javanese Gamelan "Nyai Saraswati" and Angklung Ensemble presents its Spring Concert 2023 - “SARASWATI - Goddess of Music". Featuring original student compositions by Chase Bonin [...]

UNC Annual Arabic Lecture: "Mauritania: Islamic Knowledge Traditions and Culture" Wednesday, April 12 | 5:00-6:30 PM Nelson Mandela Auditorium UNC-Chapel Hill Join on Zoom: https://unc.zoom.us/j/9773025261 Lecture is in Arabic Language Saad Elhady, Arabic & Islamic studies instructor and Scholar at Duke University. Saad specializes in Classical Arabic, with ACTFL OPI [...]

Please RSVP using this google form UNC-Chapel Hill – Chapman Hall 125 (205 S Columbia St, Chapel Hill) What role do borders play in the production of difference, bodies, and communities? How does ecology enable, transform, or rework borders divisions? This conference seeks to explore borders as zones that both separate and connect different bodies, communities, [...]

“Empowering Women in the Conservative Egyptian Art Scene” - a conversation with Sherine Hagazi Wednesday, March 29 |12:20 - 1:10 pm  New West Room 103 or online here UNC - Chapel Hill *Conversation will be in Arabic All are welcome to join a conversation with Egyptian artist Sherine Hegazi in [...]