Brown University's Center for Middle East Studies

Brown University's Center for Middle East Studies promotes knowledge, understanding, and informed discussion about the Middle East and Muslim societies.

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Millions of Palestinians across the world commemorate 'Al Nakba' — In this interview w/ @WBUR, Beshara Doumani discusses the context around the 76th anniversary of "Al Nakba," the day in 1948 when British occupation formally ended its mandate in Palestine. https://t.co/Ldmh9SBn9h

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Elias Muhanna Receives John Rowe Workman Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Humanities — The Faculty Teaching Excellence Awards recognize Brown faculty members for sustained and continued excellence in teaching. Congratulations, Elias! https://t.co/6Gmvv7OAoN

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This event has been cancelled for Dec. 11, 2023. We regret the late notice. It will be rescheduled for a date in early spring of 2024.

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Hosting four panelists working with different communities of the Middle East, this workshop will unravel diverse uses of creative and experimental methods in anthropology beyond the conventional modes of academic writing – such as poetry, graphic novels and documentaries.

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Zoom: https://t.co/jq71IVUcKD
YouTube: https://t.co/QMItc1zuel

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What role do gender and body play in Sama Alshaibi’s art on war, exile, borders and environmental destruction? How does Alshaibi’s art draw on historical sources and contemporary realities to express exploitations of freedom?

Attend on Zoom or watch live on YouTube to learn more

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How have women reclaimed their voices for life and freedom? What are the emerging characteristics of Iranian art of protest since the start of the 2022-23 Woman Life Freedom uprising?

Learn more in our online panel: https://t.co/5DiWEoyTz7

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Register to attend: https://t.co/cWBPh241NI

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Historical ceramics from the Islamic world are now held in elite collections worldwide. A new market was then generated by the colonial project’s fanatical harvesting of artifacts: the faking, forging, and fictionalizing of antiquities.

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Register here: https://t.co/aIAXJGaWSh

Or watch live on YouTube: https://t.co/eA1bweON8E

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Due to strict secrecy, censorship, and pervasive fear surrounding prisons, Syrian prisons have not been examined systematically. In this book talk, Üngör offers an examination of Syria’s prison system.

Attend in person or watch on YouTube: https://t.co/FuAF4cZUh3

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Find out in Loubna Qutami’s lecture, Renewal and Revolt in Palestinian Youth Movements.

Registration Required: https://t.co/DmHsNxqp0A

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What would it mean to think of the Palestinian struggle—though a century old—as profoundly young? What political and intellectual insights come into view when thinking of Palestine through an intergenerational continuum of youth movements?

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As Iranians observed global crises such as apartheid and race riots unfold in South Africa and the United States, they sharpened their understanding of racial politics.

Find out more details about this event and how to attend: https://t.co/tw3wDFF4Jq

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What role do rituals and day-to-day gestures play in Annabel Daou's art? How does her work connect individual experience to collective action, memory and trauma?

More information about "Declarations from the Fleeting Present" and registration: https://t.co/apU5m0puDo

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Registration Required: https://t.co/OZbdvf3Tn6

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What are the varied reasons behind the postponement of marriage among university-educated youth in contemporary Iran?

Explore this topic with Mehrdad Babadi in "Marriage Postponed: Idealism, Cynicism and Moral Ambivalence"

Thursday, September 14 at 12pm ET.

Register below

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Maktabat Sabīl | Online public library centered around Palestine and the Palestinian liberation struggle. Sabīl hosts user-uploaded documents and offers an automatic OCR service, making a wealth of material in-text searchable.

Check it out here: https://t.co/tHylcgLVE1

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Please help us give a warm welcome to Adel Ben Bella, the MESGSA Leader for the 2023-2024 academic year.

Adel Ben Bella, a filmmaker and curator, is pursuing a Ph.D. in modern culture and media at Brown University.

Learn more about him here: https://t.co/W4YJNZMPiS

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Learn more about Babadi here: https://t.co/K5LNPUjnnh

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Please help us welcome Mehrdad Babadi, the 23-24 Omar Khayyam Postdoc Research Associate in Iranian Studies.

Babadi is a sociocultural anthropologist focusing on marriage, waithood, modern intimacies, youth and gender, and generational change in Iran and the broader Middle East