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This is the official X account of the Yale Council on Middle East Studies. RT not necessarily endorsement. Lecture Recordings: https://t.co/vy6WFKMTev
New Haven, CT
Joined June 2012
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Please join us next Thursday for a discussion about possible ways forward amidst the Israeli genocide in Palestine. Hear from speakers Michael Omer-Man and Sarah Whitson, who work for the organization DAWN to expose human rights abuses in the Middle East and North Africa.
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Hear more about Eda's time at Yale and her adventures after graduating here:
macmillan.yale.edu
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We're delighted to present our first MMES alumni spotlight of the year: Eda S. Uzunlar. Since graduating, Eda has completed a master’s in International Development and worked in the Caribbean on climate change policy. She's currently conducting research and journalism in Istanbul
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With Omnia El Shakry, we are excited to host Jeffrey Sacks, scholar of poetics, critical theory, and Arabic Studies, on March 26th, to discuss his new book, Poeticality: In Refusal of Settler Life. Join us for an especially worthwhile conversation amidst these troubling times.
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We're so excited to welcome Princeton Fellow Stefano Di Pietrantonio to discuss his translations of Ottoman Greek-Arabic texts in Early Modern Syria—part of his larger project to understand the historical transfer of knowledge from Europe to the Levant. We hope to see you there!
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Next week, we will host our first Iran colloquium of the semester! Please join us in welcoming the historian of Islam, Usman Hamid, whose work on devotional aesthetics across South Asia and Iran is interdisciplinary yet richly historical. You won't want to miss this conversation.
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We are joining a host of other Yale departments in welcoming religious studies scholar Jamal Elias for a discussion of "After Rumi." Hear how the Mevlevi Sufi order used literature and social networks to build community in the post-Rumi era & snag a copy of this beautiful text!
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Please join us in welcoming political scientist Marc Lynch for our first colloquium of the semester. What is the Middle East? Is it a concrete and unified space? How does it become an American political project? We'll see you next Thursday for this lively (and timely) discussion
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Welcome back Yalies! We hope you've had a good start to the year and we know how to make it even better... Our spring series colloquium will feature speakers from a diverse array of schools nation-wide to address an even more diverse array of topics. We hope to see you there!
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Iran Colloq: Homeira Qaderi & Atiq Rahimi: A Conversation on the Film & ... https://t.co/P9FHbM643x via @YouTube
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Iran Colloquium: Ila Firouzabadi, Pirouz Nemati, Armin Firouzabadi, and ... https://t.co/mnpvjnYr2f via @YouTube
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Please join us on Thursday, Dec 4th for a highly relevant conversation in our CMES Colloquium. We welcome Nasser Abourahme, a MENA studies scholar, to discuss his most recent work on Palestine, which argues that settler colonialism is a force that conquers time as well as land.
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Iran Colloquium: Ila Firouzabadi, Pirouz Nemati, Armin Firouzabadi, and ... https://t.co/mnpvjnYr2f via @YouTube
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Set in a Persian Winnipeg, the film combines the humour of magical realism and beauty of diasporic poetics... The conversation will be held over zoom, which you can register for here:
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Calling all cinephiles...our last Iran colloquium of the term will feature three exceptionally talented artists (the writers and musician) behind the 2024 film, "Universal Language." Register at the link below to hear about one of the most original films of the 21st century!
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Please join us on Thursday, Dec 4th for a highly relevant conversation in our CMES Colloquium. We welcome Nasser Abourahme, a MENA studies scholar, to discuss his most recent work on Palestine, which argues that settler colonialism is a force that conquers time as well as land.
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Set in a Persian Winnipeg, the film combines the humour of magical realism and beauty of diasporic poetics... The conversation will be held over zoom, which you can register for here:
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Calling all cinephiles...our last Iran colloquium of the term will feature three exceptionally talented artists (the writers and musician) behind the 2024 film, "Universal Language." Register at the link below to hear about one of the most original films of the 21st century!
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