CMENAS Events

Upcoming Events

Sep
19
Thu
5:00pm - 6:30pm
CW 112
The Arab Student Association is collaborating with The Center for Middle Eastern and North Africa Studies to bring to you a Tatreez Workshop. Led by Professor Lubna Omar! Tatreez is the traditional Palestinian art of embroidery. Join us to learn more about tatreez and how to create it by hand! Limited capacity, please RSVP using the link:聽
Sep
26
Thu
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Admissions 189
A roundtable discussion with the Center for Israel Studies, the Center for Middle East and North Africa Studies, and the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention
Nov
12
Tue
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Lecture title:聽聽"In the Land of Ninkasi: A History of Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia"

Speaker: Tate Paulette, Associate Professor of History at North Carolina State University

Feb
20
Thu
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Lecture title: "Mormons and Armenians in the Ottoman Empire"

Speaker: Kent Schull, Associate Professor of History at 香港六合彩资料
Mar
20
Thu
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Lecture title:聽"Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia"

Speaker: Natalie Koch, Professor of Geography and the Environment at Syracuse University
Apr
24
Thu
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Lecture title: "Under the Same Sky: Everyday Politics of Religious Difference in Turkey"

Speaker: Secil Dagtas, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Waterloo University

  • Past Events
    • Great Lakes Ottoman Workshop (GLOW)
    • Memorial Walk - Armenian Genocide
    • Middle East and North Africa Culture Night and Calligraphy Workshop with Nada Odeh, at American Civic Association
    • Calligraphy Workshop with Syrian Artist, Nada Odeh, at BU
    • Karagoz Workshop
    • Book Talk:  "Stranger in the Desert: A Family Story" by Jordan Salama
    • Book Talk:  "Devotion to the Administrative State" by Mona Oraby (Howard University)
    • Book Talk:  "Domicide: Architecture, War and the Destruction of Home in Syria" by Ammar Azzouz
    • Film screening of "Boycott" followed by Q&A with Bahia Amawi and Jordana Rubenstein
    • Commemoration of the Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria: Film screening of the Documentary "Hatay: 1-11 September 2023"
    • Middle East and North Africa Culture Night
    • Art as survival and resistance: Guantamo in the Global War on Terror
    • Middle East and North Africa Culture Night
    • End of the semester potluck
    • Forum for peace: Israel and Palestine 3
    • Azize Aslan's book launch: "Anticapitalist economy in Rojava"
    • Forum for peace: Israel and Palestine
    • Film screening of "The Present" followed by Q&A with the director
    • Open House
    • Lecture: "Arab Istanbulites at the End of the Ottoman Empire.鈥 (Presented by Professor Mostafa Minawi, Cornell University)
    • CMENAS Faculty Affiliates Business Meeting
    • Meet the American Civic Association (ACA)