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Middle East Studies and North Africa Studies

Middle East Studies and Maghreb Studies MIDDLE EAST STUDIES

Working Papers on the Environment and Society in the Middle East: A Collaborative Workshop

Sponsored by:
Middle East Studies and North Africa Studies
Current academic work by four scholars in the field of social and environmental relations in the Middle East will be read, analyzed, and critiqued by each other and by student attendees in a forum meant to provide Middlebury undergraduate students with an opportunity to enter into this growing field within Middle East Studies and to participate in a core academic activity: editing scholarly work.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Understanding Arab Comics: A View from Cairo

Sponsored by:
Studio Art, Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Arabic, Film & Media Culture, Political Science, Center for Comparative Study of Race & Ethnicity, and Middle East Studies and North Africa Studies
In his lecture “Understanding Arab Comics: A View from Cairo” Jonathan Guyer will discuss the power of political cartoons in the current Arab world. Jonathan Guyer is a fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs and contributing editor of the Cairo Review of Global Affairs. From 2012 to 2013, he was a Fulbright fellow researching political cartoons in Egypt. He previously served as a program associate for the New America Foundation in Washington, DC, and as assistant editor of Foreign Policy’s Middle East Channel.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

Survivors into Minorities: Armenians in Post-Genocide Turkey

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, History, Political Science, Religion, Russian, Charles P. Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life, Center for Comparative Study of Race & Ethnicity, European Studies, and Middle East Studies and North Africa Studies
This talk follows the trajectories of the survivors of the 1915 Armenian Genocide who remained inside Turkish borders after the signing of the 1918 Mudros Armistice (and during the Allied occupation years of Istanbul) and after the 1923 establishment of the new country as the Turkish Republic. How did the Kemalist state treat the remaining Armenians? What were Armenians’ responses to the new (but also old) Turkish regime?

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

Daughter of the Bedouin’s Chief : Writing Female Identity in the Land of Prohibitions

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Arabic, Middle East Studies and North Africa Studies, and Comparative Literature
Dr. Miral Mahgoub, an Egyptian novelist and Associate Professor of Modern Arabic Literature and Middle East/Islamic Studies at the School of International Letters and Cultures at Arizona State University, will speak about her novel, The Tent (1996), a dream-like portrayal of rural Bedouin life in Egypt. Dr. Mahgoub was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2010 for her novel Brooklyn Heights and was recently profiled by the New York Times: “Making the Life of a Modern Nomad into Literature” (1/4/2012).

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

Lecture by Carol Fadda

Sponsored by:
Arabic and Middle East Studies and North Africa Studies
“Carol Fadda is an Associate Professor of English at Syracuse University. Her work on US ethnic literatures focuses on Arab-American literary studies, delineating the complexity of Arab-American communal and individual identities, particularly in light of 9/11 and its aftermath. She has published widely on gender, race, ethnicity, war, trauma, and transnational citizenship in Arab and Arab-American literary texts. Her latest book is entitled Contemporary Arab-American Literature: Transnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging.”

Axinn Center 229

Open to the Public

Healing the Body, Healing the Islamic Umma: Medicine, Corporeality, and the Polity in the Middle East and North Africa

Sponsored by:
Middle East Studies and North Africa Studies
Ellen J. Amster is the Jason A. Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, and an associate professor in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Department of History. Her research touches upon non-Western health and healing systems, traditional midwifery, phenomenology of the body, the modern history of public health, Islamic science, French and Islamic medical histories, and the physical geographies of Sufism.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

Gender and language ideologies in the Arab world: Moroccan artists 'blacklisted'

Sponsored by:
Arabic and Middle East Studies and North Africa Studies
Atiqa Hachimi is an Associate Professor at University of Toronto. She is a sociolinguist and Arabic specialist whose teaching contributes to the programs for Women’s and Gender Studies and African Studies. Her research focuses on social and language change in the Arabic-speaking world, particularly in Morocco.

Axinn Center 229

Free
Open to the Public

"All the King's Horses, All the President's Men: The Transnational Politics of Yemeni Disintegration"

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs and Middle East Studies and North Africa Studies
Dr. Philbrick-Yadav (Associate Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges) has been writing about Yemen’s opposition politics for more than a decade. Dr. Philbrick-Yadav’s book, “Islamists and the State: Legitimacy and Institutions in Yemen and Lebanon” (2013), explores the dynamics of Islamist activism and alliance building. Dr. Philbrick-Yadav’s lecture will address the ongoing conflicts in Yemen and critique the international response to them.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public