Past Events

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    The Making of a Poet: Five Years in Six Egyptian Prisons

    March 22, 2023 - 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
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    THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. Please check back as this will be rescheduled (potentially in Fall 2023).

    Wednesday at the Center welcomes Mohsen Mohamed and Sherine Elbanhawy. The first half of the discussion will be Egyptian poet, Mohsen...

    • Duke Islamic Studies Center
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    Sectarianization of the Syrian Uprising: Why, Who, and How?

    November 22, 2022 - 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
    Dr. Basileus Zeno

    Join Duke History, DUMESC and DISC for a public talk and conversation from 4:30 - 5:30 PM with Dr. Basileus Zeno titled "Sectarianization of the Syrian Uprising: Why, Who, and How?"

    Dr. Basileus Zeno is Sessional Assistant Professor in...

    • Duke Islamic Studies Center
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    A Path to Muslim Flourishing, Joy, and Futurism

    September 7, 2022 - 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
    Zoom

    MIPSTERZ has focused its recent efforts around Muslim Futurism-a cultural and artistic aesthetic that learns from frameworks of Afrofuturism and Palestinian liberationism-imagining a broader Muslim future free from the oppression of today, set in...

    • Duke University Center for International and Global Studies
    • Duke Islamic Studies Center
    • Wednesdays at the Center Series
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    Alhamdu | Muslim Futurism: Exhibition

    August 16, 2022 (All day) to September 18, 2022 (All day)
    Rubenstein Arts Center

    MIPSTERZ are proud to announce the world premiere of their "ALHAMDU | MUSLIM FUTURISM" exhibition presented by Duke Arts and hosted at the Rubenstein Arts Center at Duke University in collaboration with the Duke Islamic Studies Center. The...

    • Duke Islamic Studies Center
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    Art and the Black Muslim Image

    May 28, 2022 - 10:00 am to 3:00 pm
    Zoom Event Registration Link

    A Zoom discussion on the essays from "Black Muslim Portraiture in the Modern Atlantic", The Muslim World Journal - Special Issue

    These conversations focus on five Black art figures of Muslim heritage: (1) Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (2) Yarrow...

    • Duke Islamic Studies Center
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    Body, Medicine, and Feminism: The Life Work of Nawal El Saadawi

    April 7, 2022 - 10:00 am to April 8, 2022 - 2:00 pm
    Shereen Abouelnaga (Cairo U.), Mohamed Tonsy (U. of Edinburgh), Jessica Frazier (U. of Rhode Island), Lucinda Carspecken (Indiana U.), Cheryl Toman (U. of Alabama), Ibrahim Fawzy (Fayoum U., Egypt), Asmaa Mansour (Tulane U.), Suja Sawafta (U. of Miami), Hind Ahmed Zaki (UCONN), miriam cooke (Duke U.)
    Zoom Event

    A panel of scholars will discuss about the Life Work of Nawal El Saadawi with the focus on body, medicine, and feminism.

    • Duke University Middle East Studies Center
    • Duke Islamic Studies Center
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    The Origins of the Syrian Conflict

    March 30, 2022 - 3:30 pm to 4:45 pm
    Marwa Daoudy (Georgetown U.)
    Zoom Webinar

    This book talk will include a conversation with Adam Mestyan (History, Duke) and Erika Weinthal (Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke)

    • Duke University Middle East Studies Center
    • Duke Islamic Studies Center
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    ONLINE: Meet Threa Almontaser, Rosati Visiting Writer

    March 29, 2022 - 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
    Threa Almontaser
    Zoom Event

    The 2021-22 Rosati Fellow and award-winning poet Threa Almontaser reads from her recent book, The Wild Fox of Yemen , and answers questions about her writing, editing and teaching.

    • Duke University Middle East Studies Center
    • Duke Islamic Studies Center

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