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The Origin of the Christian Feasts: Re-Dating a Passage of Toledot Yeshu
Mon, Sep 16, 2024, 12:00 pm1:20 pm
 

Sacha Stern is Professor of Jewish Studies at University College London, and a Fellow of the British Academy. This term he is Visiting Fellow at Princeton University. An ancient historian by training, his research focuses on late antique and early medieval Jewish history, with a focus on the history of calendars and time reckoning, on…

Location
Jones 202
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The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures
Mon, Sep 23, 2024, 12:00 pm1:20 pm
 

C. Ceyhun Arslan is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Koç University and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow at EUME and Saarland University. His book, The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures, has been published by Edinburgh University Press. He is working on a…

Location
202 Jones Hall
Speaker
Free and open to the public
Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies Reading Group
Tue, Sep 24, 2024, 5:00 pm6:30 pm
 
Book Talk: Reading Herzl in Beirut
Mon, Sep 30, 2024, 12:00 pm1:20 pm
 

Jonathan Marc Gribetz, Professor of Near Eastern Studies, will speak about his newly published monograph Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy (Princeton University Press, 2024).

Jonathan Marc Gribetz is a Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies and in the Program in Judaic Studies…

Location
202 Jones Hall
Speaker
Free and open to the public
Palestinian: Ibrahim Nasrallah in Conversation with Huda Fakhreddine
Fri, Oct 4, 2024, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

Palestinian novelist and poet, Ibrahim Nasrallah and Professor of Arabic Literature, Huda Fakhreddine will launch their new chapbook…

Location
002 Robertson Hall
Speakers
Free and open to the public
Learning Coptic in Arabic: The 13th-Century Muqaddimāt for the Coptic Language
Mon, Oct 28, 2024, 12:00 pm1:20 pm
 

Ramona Teepe is a PhD candidate in the fields of Coptic and Arabic studies at Yale University. Her research focuses on the shift from Coptic to Arabic in Egypt and the development of the Coptic grammatical tradition in the 13th-century as exemplified by muqaddimāt.

In this talk I will share my knowledge on the…

Location
202 Jones Hall
Speaker
Free and open to the public
Dean's Leadership Series - Francesca Albanese, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Tue, Oct 29, 2024, 4:45 pm6:00 pm
 

Ms. Francesca Albanese was appointed the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, by the Human Rights Council at its 49th session in March 2022 and has taken up her function as of 1 May 2022. Ms. Albanese is an Affiliate Scholar at the Institute for the Study of International…

Location
Robertson Hall
Speakers
Free and open to the public
The Self in Islam: A Global Philosophy Approach
Mon, Nov 4, 2024, 12:00 pm1:20 pm
 

Muhammad U. Faruque is the Inayat Malik Associate Professor and a Taft Center Fellow at the University of Cincinnati and a former Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. His award-winning book Sculpting the Self (University of Michigan Press, 2021) addresses “what it means to be human” in a secular,…

Location
202 Jones Hall
Speaker
Free and open to the public
The Religion and Rituals of the Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia
Mon, Nov 11, 2024, 12:00 pm1:20 pm
 

Ahmad Al-Jallad is a philologist, epigraphist, and historian of language. His work focuses on the languages, writing systems, history, and cultures of pre-Islamic Arabia and the ancient Near East.

His latest book reconstructs the religion and rituals of Arabia’s pre-Islamic tribespeople: “The Religion and Rituals of the Nomads of…

Location
202 Jones Hall
Speaker
Free and open to the public
The Water Prince and the Saltwater Kingdom: Muhammad Bin Faisal and the Saudi Desalination Revolution
Mon, Nov 18, 2024, 12:00 pm1:20 pm
 

Michael Christopher Low is Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Middle East Center at the University of Utah. Low is the author of Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj (Columbia University Press, 2020). In 2021, Imperial Mecca received the Middle East Studies Association’s Albert Hourani…

Location
202 Jones Hall
Speaker
Free and open to the public
Beyond Sectarianism Book Talk
Mon, Dec 2, 2024, 12:00 pm1:20 pm
 

Tehseen Thaver is Assistant Professor of Religion at Princeton University. In addition to her book Beyond Sectarianism: Ambiguity, Hermeneutics, and the Formations of Religious Identity in Islam (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024), her articles have appeared at venues such as the Journal of the American Academy…

Location
202 Jones Hall
Speaker
Free and open to the public
Rethinking Habesha Identity in the Modern Middle East
Mon, Dec 9, 2024, 12:00 pm1:20 pm
 

Lacy Feigh is the Link-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows and Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and History at Princeton University. A historian of modern Ethiopia and the greater Nile Valley, her research focuses on legacies of slavery, empire, and constructions of race in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her…

Location
202 Jones Hall
Speaker
Free and open to the public
Princeton Palestinian Studies Colloquium
Mon, Mar 3, 2025, 4:30 pm6:00 pm
 

Associate Professor, Modern Arabic Literature and Film, Principal Investigator, European Research Council project 

Location
TBD
Free and open to the public
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