Join us for a public talk with Neda Maghbouleh, Assistant Professor of Sociology at U. of Toronto Mississauga.

In The Limits of Whiteness, Maghbouleh offers a groundbreaking, timely look at how Iranians and other Middle Eastern Americans...

Talk & Conversation with Hanan Hammad about her book Industrial Sexuality: Gender, Urbanization, and Social Transformation in Egypt (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016)

Participants: Hanan Hammad (Texas Christian University),...

Panel presentation by Zeynep Uysal (Bogazici U.), Hülya Adak (Sabanci U.), Murat Gülsoy (Bogazici U.) and Efe Khayyat (Rutgers U.) on various academic themes and issues of the modern Turkish novel in global contexts as it pertains to their work...

Overview of Academic Freedom in Turkey

Istanbul: The Beloved City

A Conversation about Energy, Politics, and Middle East History On Barak (Tel Aviv University) and Adam Mestyan (Duke University)

Journey with the Oud into Arab Music- Dr. Azeddine Chergui will play the Oud and talk about its prominent role in Arab music. Contact: or saad.vall@duke.edu

Speaker: Ellen McLarney, Ph.D., Duke University

Recent, cutting edge scholarship on Black Power and its “spiritual sister” the Black Arts Movement chronicles an important era in the ongoing struggle for racial justice in the United States...

The Postcolonial Middle East Symposium

The Pendulum in Motion

Seven years since the Arab Spring, the prospects for Middle East democracy have diminished markedly. Popular forces mounted uprisings but most didn't follow through. Authoritarians regrouped and reorganized...