A plague arrives to Mingheria, a half-Muslim and half-Christian island in the Ottoman Mediterranean. The Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamit II sends his most accomplished quarantine expert to the island-an Orthodox Christian. Some of the Muslims...

Güldeniz Kıbrıs will talk about Building a Conspiratorial Universe in Cold War Turkey.

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

In this talk, Dr. Banu Gökarıksel will discuss about the dynamic entanglements of everyday relations between Alevi and Sunni neighbors in three cities across Turkey.

Mercedes Volait will talk about her book ' Antique Dealing and Creative Reuse in Cairo and Damascus 1850-1890: Intercultural Engagements with Architecture and Craft in the Age of Travel and Reform '

Book talk with the author Saud Al Sanusi

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

A film about the the life of people in Beirut after the August 4, 2020 blast.

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.

This presentation will focus on the theories of causality purported by two prominent fifteenth-century Ottoman scholars, Ḫocazāde Muṣliḥuddīn (d. 893/1488) and cAlā' al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī (d. 887/1482).