CMES

This is the official twitter account of the UCSB Center for Middle East Studies. RT not necessarily endorsement.

[American Institute for Yemeni Studies @InstituteYemeni]

Join us for our webinar, Mobility & Agency in Contemporary Yemeni Diaspora, for a conversation among leading and emerging scholars in Yemeni migration studies around meanings of mobility and agency in contemporary Yemeni diaspora. Register here 👇
https://t.co/fCmqcBoXpJ

[CMES @cmesucsb]

UPDATE: This event has been postponed. New date will be announced soon.

[CMES @cmesucsb]

Join us on October 18 at 5:30-7:30 pm for Arabic Glitch: a book launch + AR exhibit at 6020 HSSB at UCSB. Taking from the virtual and bringing back into the material, Laila Shereen Sakr will discuss her new book with George Legrady , Constance Penley, and Sherene Seikaly.

[CMES @cmesucsb]

Join us on October 18 at 5:30-7:30 pm for Arabic Glitch: a book launch + AR exhibit at 6020 HSSB at UCSB. Taking from the virtual and bringing back into the material, Laila Shereen Sakr will discuss her new book with George Legrady , Constance Penley, and Sherene Seikaly.

[CMES @cmesucsb]

CMES congratulates Dr. Farshad Sonboldel, UCSB's the Middle East Studies Librarian and Area Studies Collection Strategist, on his upcoming book, The Rebellion of Forms in Modern Persian Poetry (Bloomsbury).

[Ottoman Studies Initiative at NYU @otsnyu]

#forthcoming

Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky offers a historiographical corrective: the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire created a refugee regime, predating refugee systems set up by the League of Nations and the United Nations.

https://t.co/1KCLSABZug

[Walter H. Capps Center @CappsUcsb]

Join us on 6/6 at 2pm for "American Muslim Comedy: A Serious Conversation," featuring four Muslim American comedians and two scholars. Event will be livestreamed via Zoom. See website for details and to register. Free and open to all!
https://t.co/FiG9xB1tpi

[CMES @cmesucsb]

@boualizohir1 Please use the QR code on the flyer to register or try this link: https://t.co/23tfvuxcpA

[CMES @cmesucsb]

Please join UCSB's CMES for our final webinar in our Spotlight Series, featuring a talk by Sergey Salushchev on Friday May 26 at 11 am PT. Register to attend the webinar here: https://t.co/Gm2aSsCowR

[CMES @cmesucsb]

Please use the QR code to register or try this link: https://t.co/23tfvuxcpA

[CMES @cmesucsb]

Please join UCSB's CMES for our final webinar in our Spotlight Series, featuring a talk by Sergey Salushchev on Friday May 26 at 11 am PT. Register to attend the webinar here: https://t.co/Gm2aSsCowR

[UCSB Blum Center on Poverty Inequality & Democracy @UCSB_BlumCenter]

Thank you Jia Ching-Chen, Jin-Sook Lee, Samantha Harris, Sandy Sum, Tamma Carleton, Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj, Erik Mallory, Marissa Samuels, Mariah Miller, & MacKenzie Wade for presenting at our annual research symposium on Cooperative Economics and Central Coast Regional Equity!!

[CMES @cmesucsb]

A gesture of solidarity, by way of art, with the struggle for Iranian women’s rights--UCSB Arts & Lectures, Tuesday May 9 https://t.co/mDLqKRl9iE

[CMES @cmesucsb]

Please join us on May 9 at the UCSB Art, Design & Architecture Museum for Woman Life Freedom: a Public Art Projection. The art will be projected onto the exterior walls of the museum from 8-11pm. Stop by or stay for a while and engage the art in community.

[Walter H. Capps Center @CappsUcsb]

Join us WEDNESDAY (4/26) for two events at @ucsbmcc - panel on Asian American activism (3pm), lecture by #StopAAPIHate co-founder @KulkarniManju (5pm). See website for more details. Both events are free and open to all, in person and livestreamed online!

[CMES @cmesucsb]

The Division of Humanities and Fine Arts at UCSB highlighted Nasser Rabbat's recent lecture, “Al-Maqrizi’s Khitat: A Transhistorical Paean to Cairo,” at CMES. https://t.co/8fGPbH0RP9

[Walter H. Capps Center @CappsUcsb]

Join us on 4/26 for two events at @ucsbmcc: a panel on Asian American activism (3pm) and a lecture by #StopAAPIHate co-founder Manjusha Kulkarni @KulkarniManju (5pm). See website for more details. Both events are free and open to all, in person and livestreamed online!

[CMES @cmesucsb]

Join our next CMES Spotlight Series webinar on Friday April 14 at 9 am PT with presentations by CMES Grad Fellows Tina Guirguis, Sebaah Hamad, and bridge mcwaid with Prof. Mona Damluji as discussant. Register to attend here: https://t.co/jGKKmytbzt

[Nasser Rabbat @nasserrabbat]

I passed this picture of my UCLA maitre, Charles Moore, @UCSB faculty club, which he designed in 1967. He taught me how to appreciate what he called the Vernacular Spectacular in architecture, which he considered a humanistic project manifest in simple wood or adobe structures.

[CMES @cmesucsb]

Join our next CMES Spotlight Series webinar on Friday April 14 at 9 am PT with presentations by CMES Grad Fellows Tina Guirguis, Sebaah Hamad, and bridge mcwaid with Prof. Mona Damluji as discussant. Register to attend here: https://t.co/jGKKmytbzt

[CMES @cmesucsb]

Not to be missed: UCSB's CMES is proud to be hosting an in-person lecture by Prof. Nasser Rabbat (MIT) on his much anticipated newly published book this Thursday April 6 at 4 pm in Girvetz 2320.

[CMES @cmesucsb]

Please join us if you are able for "A Tale of Three Brothers: Ezra, Me’ir, and Hayyawi Sawda’i and a History of Cinema in Iraq," a talk by Pelle Valentin Olsen (University of Oslo) on Wednesday, April 5 at 3:30 pm in SSMS 2135. More info https://t.co/qntKsa1Exa