Past Events
Book Launch: Ariel Ahram, “Break All the Borders”
Thursday, 3/21/2019, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
With detailed studies of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the federalists in eastern Libya, the southern resistance in Yemen, and Kurdish nationalist parties, Ahram explains how separatists captured territory and handled the tasks of rebel governance, including managing oil exports, electricity grids, and irrigation networks.
Global Fables, Folklore and Fantasy in Children’s & Youth Literature
Wednesday, 3/20/2019, 5:15pm - 8:00pm
The Judge offers a portrait of Judge Kholoud Faqih, one of the first women to serve as a Palestinian family court judge.
Film Screening: By the Dawn’s Early Light: Chris Jackson’s Journey to Islam with Zareena Grewal
Thursday, 3/7/2019, 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Tracing his evolution from a media darling and icon of the American dream to an "un-American foreigner," this timely film documents the history of anti-Muslim racism and xenophobia through a simple, poignant story of one man's spiritual journey turned public trial.
Film Screening: By the Dawn’s Early Light: Chris Jackson’s Journey to Islam with Zareena Grewal
Thursday, 3/7/2019, 5:30pm - 8:00pm
IMES Film and Lecture Series
Book Launch: Dina Bishara, “Contesting Authoritarianism: Labor Challenges to the State in Egypt”
Monday, 3/4/2019, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Bishara examines the relationship between labour organizations and the state in Egypt to shed light on how political change occurs within an authoritarian government, and to show how ordinary Egyptians perceive the government’s rule.
Saving the Past for the People: A Critique of the “Universal” Heritage Model with Stephennie Mulder
Thursday, 2/21/2019, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
In this talk, Stephennie will argue that the dominant universalist model of archaeological heritage preservation, wherein heritage is envisioned as a property-based model belonging “to all humankind”, has in fact been an important motivation for the destruction of heritage in wartime and the alienation of local communities from their heritage following reconstruction.
Thursday, 2/14/2019, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Finding it difficult to fight these opponents directly, many governments instead target states that harbor or aid nonstate actors, using threats and punishment to coerce host states into stopping those groups.
Thursday, 1/31/2019, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Making use of the transnational framework of the British Empire, which presided over the three major partitions of the twentieth century, contributors draw out concrete connections among the cases of Ireland, Pakistan, and Israel—the mutual influences, shared personnel, economic justifications, and material interests that propelled the idea of partition forward and resulted in the violent creation of new post-colonial political spaces.
Thursday, 1/24/2019, 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Ziya Meral will discuss his new book, How Violence Shapes Religion: Belief and Conflict in the Middle East and Africa(Cambridge University Press, 2018), with POMEPS on Thursday, January 24, 2019 at the Elliott School of International Affairs, Room 505.
Asia In The Middle East featuring Satoshi Ikeuchi & Jon Alterman, Moderated by Karen Young
Wednesday, 1/23/2019, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
The event will discuss developments in the Middle East pertaining to Asian interests and involvement in the region.
Film Screening: “Aisha” and Q&A with Filmmaker Asma Bseiso
Thursday, 1/17/2019, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Her film "I am Gaza" which was shot during the 2008 war was the Opening Film at Amal Film Festival (Spain) and the Arab Film Festival (Algiers) in 2010. This film received 4 production awards.
Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo with Seth Anziska
Thursday, 12/13/2018, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Combining astute political analysis, extensive original research, and interviews with diplomats, military veterans, and communal leaders, Preventing Palestine offers a bold new interpretation of a highly charged struggle for self-determination.
Thursday, 11/29/2018, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
This book aims to establish a better understanding of cross-cultural exchange from the Mughal perspective by emphasizing the agency of local artists active in the workshops of Emperors Akbar and Jahangir.
Finding Home: In Conversation with Hannah Allam, Osama Alomar, Susan Darraj, and Laila Halaby
Tuesday, 11/27/2018, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Join notable Buzzfeed reporter Hannah Allam as she sits down with Osama Alomar (The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories), Susan Darraj (A Curious Land: Stories from Home; The Inheritance of Exile) and others to discuss what “Finding Home” looks like for an Arab American, especially in today’s political climate.
Thursday, 11/8/2018, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
The Arab Spring revolts of 2011 spread from Cairo, and now Americans understandably look with cynical exasperation at the disastrous Egyptian experiment with democracy.
Book Launch: Leaks, Hacks and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age with Tarek El-Ariss
Thursday, 11/8/2018, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
In recent years, Arab activists have confronted authoritarian regimes both on the street and online, leaking videos and exposing atrocities, and demanding political rights.
Book Launch: Life Lived In Relief with Ilana Feldman
Thursday, 11/1/2018, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
By exploring the complex world constituted through humanitarianism, and how that world is experienced by the many people who inhabit it, Feldman asks pressing questions about what it means for a temporary status to become chronic.
Reform in the Arab World: A Conversation with Marwan Muasher
Wednesday, 10/24/2018, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Please join us for a conversation about the prospects for Arab reform.
POMEPS: A book talk with Ann Wainscott on Bureaucratizing Islam: Morocco and the War on Terror
Monday, 4/30/2018, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
This innovative and insightful book examines how states in the Middle East and North Africa have responded to the War on Terror by investigating Morocco’s unique approach to counter-terrorism: the bureaucratization of religion.
