Past Events
Social Justice and Foreign Language with Cassandra Glynn
Saturday, 1/16/2021, 12:00pm - 2:30pm
DC Arabic Teachers' Council Workshop
From Morocco to Dubai: Engagement and Immersion with Virtual Reality
Saturday, 12/5/2020, 12:00pm - 2:00pm
DC Arabic Teachers' Council Workshop
A Conversation with Amb. Bill Burns
Monday, 11/23/2020, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Amb. Burns will discuss U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East and the future of the U.S. Foreign Service.
Friday, 11/20/2020, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Focusing not on state institutions, but rather on the daily life that goes on in their shadows, Noah Salomon’s careful ethnography examines the lasting effects of state Islamization on Sudanese society through a study of the individuals and organizations working in its midst.
A Conversation with Amb. Nabil Fahmy
Thursday, 11/12/2020, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Amb. Fahmy will discuss Egypt, regional affairs, and his new book, Egypt's Diplomacy in War, Peace and Transition.
SIMA and Using Film in the Arabic Classroom
Wednesday, 11/4/2020, 12:00pm - 2:00pm
DC Arabic Teachers' Council Workshop
A Conversation with Amb. Fareed Yasseen
Monday, 11/2/2020, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Amb. Fareed Yasseen, will join MEPF to discuss his view of the U.S.-Iraqi relationship and recent events in the region.
Thursday, 10/22/2020, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Archive Wars shows how the Saudi state's response to the challenges of the Gulf War served to historicize a national space, territorialize a national history, and ultimately refract both through new modes of capital accumulation.
“A Simple Girl”: Conversation with Author Ayelet Tsabari
Thursday, 10/1/2020, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Tsabari will share some of the unique challenges she has faced as an immigrant author writing about Israel in English, her second language. This lecture will explore the many ways in which a writer's cultural background, mother tongue, and origins influence and inform her writing, in terms of both content and style.
Thursday, 9/24/2020, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
In Spaceship in the Desert Gökçe Günel examines the development and construction of Masdar City's renewable energy and clean technology infrastructures, providing an illuminating portrait of an international group of engineers, designers, and students who attempted to build a post-oil future in Abu Dhabi.
Wednesday, 7/15/2020, 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Sinews of War and Trade is the story of what the making of new ports and shipping infrastructures has meant not only for the Arabian Peninsula itself, but for the region and the world beyond. The book is the account of how maritime transportation is not simply an enabling adjunct of trade, but central to the very fabric of global capitalism.
Tuesday, 5/19/2020, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Arbella Bet-Shlimon reconstructs the twentieth-century history of Kirkuk to question the assumptions about the past underpinning today's ethnic divisions.
Student-Centered Activities in the Arabic Classroom
Saturday, 5/16/2020, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
In this hands-on workshop, the presenter will model novice and intermediate-level activities that place students front and center.
Thursday, 4/2/2020, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
In this lecture Maya Mikdashi employs ethnographic and archival research to frame religious conversion as a site through which to better understand this governance at the intersections of political difference, and what it may teach us about sovereignty, secularism, and state power.
Asserting Identity in Children and Youth Literature
Thursday, 4/2/2020, 10:00am - 3:30pm
DC Arabic Teachers' Workshop
Art and Film Making in Saudi Arabia with Hisham Fageeh
Wednesday, 4/1/2020, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Fageeh uses comedy to highlight social issues, by turning them on their head. Using comedic tools, Fageeh questions cultural norms, even the most ubiquitous ones.
Thursday, 2/27/2020, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Challenging the widely shared pessimism among regional experts, Ishay charts bold and realistic pathways for human rights in a region beset by political repression, economic distress, sectarian conflict, a refugee crisis, and violence against women.
Project-Based Learning: A Workshop for Arabic Educators
Saturday, 2/15/2020, 10:00am - 1:30pm
DC Arabic Teachers' Council Workshop
Film Screening & Discussion: Naila and the Uprising
Thursday, 2/6/2020, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
When a nation-wide uprising breaks out in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, a young woman in Gaza must make a choice between love, family, and freedom. Undaunted, she embraces all three, joining a clandestine network of women in a movement that forces the world to recognize the Palestinian right to self-determination for the first time.
Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic with Narges Bajoghli
Thursday, 1/23/2020, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
An inside look at what it means to be pro-regime in Iran, and the debates around the future of the Islamic Republic.