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SYMPOSIUM: Generations of Dissent in Literary and Cinematic Productions of the Mideast and North Africa
\nApril 22 (Friday), 1-4pm, Anderson Hall, Room\u00a01221<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n

Join us for an exciting symposium on how literature and film in the contemporary MENA portrays dissent and opposition!\u00a0 The event will combine\u00a0research presented by\u00a0three outside presenters visiting Temple that day — Professors Alessandro Columbu<\/strong> \"Untitled\"<\/a>(University of Edinburgh), Eman Morsi<\/strong> (NYU), and Shareah Taleghan<\/strong> (CUNY-Queens) with the latest work by Temple’s own\u00a0Professor Alexa Firat<\/strong> of the Asian and Middle Eastern Languages Department.\u00a0 Discussing all four of these presentations will be Professor Suzanne Gauch<\/strong> of Temple’s English Department.\u00a0 These new contributions not only highlight the significant of the humanities in current regional affairs, they will also comprise the core of a new edited volume on the topic matter.\u00a0 Coffee and light refreshments will be served.\u00a0 This CHAT-MENA\u00a0event is co-sponsored by the Global Studies Program as well as the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages.<\/span><\/p>\n

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CONFERENCE: Africa and the World Move —\u00a0The Crisis of Migrants and Refugees From North Africa to Southwest Asia<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n
April 15-16 (Friday and Saturday), Shusterman Hall, Starting at 9AM<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n

Join us for this inaugural conference organized by the Department of African-American \"Africa<\/a>Studies\u00a0for a\u00a0trans-disciplinary dialogue on\u00a0the status and future\u00a0of\u00a0migrants and refugees in North Africa and Southwest Asia.\u00a0 This star-studded event features a variety of panels and speakers, including Rochelle Davis<\/strong> (Georgetown University) and Jamil Smith<\/strong>\u00a0(The New Republic<\/em>), as well as various invited scholars.\u00a0 Co-sponsored by the MENA Study Group and the Middle East Initiative at Temple, and the Departments of of Anthropology, Asian and Middle Eastern Languages, Economics, French, German, Global Studies, History, Italian, MENA, Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, Slavic Studies,\u00a0and Sociology.\u00a0 The event is co-sponsored by numerous other departments, including Anthropology, Asian and Middle Eastern Languages, Economics, French, German, Global Studies, History, Italian, Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, Slavic, and Sociology.<\/span><\/p>\n

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EVENT: Understanding Syria — Addressing the Conflict in the Middle East<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n
4-6pm, March 30\u00a0(Wednesday), SERC 116<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n
Co-sponsored with the Political Science Graduate Student Association<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n

This public roundtable unpacks the Syrian civil war, and its broader ramifications for the Middle East.\u00a0 It features leading academics from Philadelphia institutions, including Samer Abboud (Arcadia University), Ian Lustick (University of Pennsylvania), and Dominic Tierney (Swarthmore College).\u00a0 Moderated by Temple University Professor Sean Yom, with a reception to follow.<\/span><\/p>\n

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EVENT: Talk by Wael Hallaq — “Orientalism, Crisis, and Transformation”<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n
3:00-4:30pm, 15 March 2016 (Tuesday), Anderson Hall 1221<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n
Co-sponsored with the Department of Religion<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n

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Wael Hallaq is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University.\u00a0 He is widely renowned as one of the world’s\u00a0leading scholars of Islamic law, jurisprudential development, and intellectual history.\u00a0 He has authored numerous books, among them Shari’a: Theory, Practice, Transformations <\/em>(Cambridge University Press, 2009), and An Introduction to Islamic Law <\/em>(Cambridge University Press, 2009).<\/span><\/p>\n

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EVENT: Drivers and Dynamics of the Syrian Conflict — A Conversation with Dr. Samer Abboud<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n
4-5:30pm,\u00a0February 24\u00a0(Wednesday), CHAT Lounge (10th Floor, Gladfelter Hall)<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n

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Join us for an informative conversation with Dr. Samer Abboud of Arcadia University!\u00a0 Dr. Abboud is the author of the recently published book Syria<\/em> (Polity Press, 2015), which unravels the social and political complexities of the country’s history and tragic civil war.\u00a0 Professors Sean Yom (Political Science) and Alexa Firat (Asian and Middle Eastern Languages) will be moderating the event.<\/span><\/p>\n

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EVENT: Public Conversation with Dr. Smadar Lavie<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n
11:00AM, October 26 (Monday), Paley Library Lecture Hall<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n
Co-sponsored with TU\u00a0Libraries’\u00a0Beyond the Page<\/em> Public Programming Series<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n

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Join us for a conversation with anthropologist Smadar Lavie. Lavie\u00a0received her doctorate in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley, specializing in the anthropology of Egypt, Israel, and Palestine, with emphasis on issues of race, gender, and religion. She has written and co-edited a number of books and volumes including The Poetics of Military Occupation<\/em> (UC Press, 1990), which\u00a0won the 1990 Honorable Mention of the Victor Turner Award for Ethnographic Writing; Displacement, Diaspora and<\/em> Geographies of Identity<\/em> (Duke Univ. Press, 1996;\u00a0Creativity\/Anthropology<\/em> (Cornell Univ. Press, 1993); and her most recent, Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture<\/em> (Berghahn 2014).<\/span><\/p>\n

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