Past News Articles

  • March 27, 2024

    As part of Arab American Heritage Month, join us for a celebration of Mideast food culture. A roundtable on Middle Eastern food and culture in North Carolina will be held with local restaurant and café owners. Activities also include dance performance by Triangle Lebanese-American Center and local food.   See [...]

  • March 27, 2024

    UNC Center for Middle East & Islamic Studies, The NC Arabic Teacher Council, and Al-Iman School cordially invite you to celebrate Arab American Heritage Month with a community festival. Free and open to the public. Enjoy art for kids, calligraphy, henna, dabke dance, music, food, and more! Saturday, April 13th, [...]

  • March 27, 2024

    Time: April 11 -- 6pm Location: UNC Peabody, Room 1040 In the first documentary film made in Gaza, Gaza Ghetto (1984) highlights the historical precedents that fuel the current cycles of violence and continue at the heart of the Palestine-Israel conflict. Post-screening discussion with filmmaker Joan Mandell.   Sponsors: Institute [...]

  • March 27, 2024

                                  Time: April 2 -- 6-7:30pm Location: UNC Hamilton Hall, Room 100 Through this event, the writings of the award-winning novelist Adania Shibli will be contextualized within scholarship on Arab American, African American, and Indigenous literature. [...]

  • March 19, 2024

    Register to attend the film screening of Brooklyn Inshallah using the above QR code or go to https://go.unc.edu/BrooklynInshallah.  

  • March 11, 2024

    Date: April 12, 2024 Time: 3:00PM - 7:00PM Address: Hanes Art Center (tentative) The exhibition will include a display of original art created at the GBDC from April 12-19, 2024 culminating in a symposium on April 12, 2024 to address the sovereign, and political, and legal dimensions of detainee art. The symposium [...]

  • March 6, 2024

    UNC Persian Studies and CMEIS invite you for a celebration of Nowruz, the Persian New Year. This event will be held in UNC-Chapel Hill's FedEx Global Education Center, Room 3009 on March 21 from 4-5:00pm. After celebrating Nowruz with the Center, join us for our last lecture of the 2023-34 [...]

  • March 6, 2024

    Join us in celebration of our faculty and graduate students on International Women’s Day! Come dressed in purple, green, and/or white, if you wish, to participate even more in the festive mood. The International Women’s Day 2024 campaign is Inspire Inclusion. Light refreshments will be provided. Parking available for $1.

  • 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 [...]