Events Archive
NES Class Day 2021
NEAR EASTERN STUDIES REUNIONS OPEN HOUSE
The Crisis in Afghanistan: America’s Involvement and the Implications of its Imminent Withdrawal
Thu, May 13, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Location:
Zoom webinar
Speaker(s):
Saad Mohseni, MOBY Group
The Invention of Jewish Theocracy: "Religion", "Secularism" and the Struggle for Legal Dominance in the State of Israel
Mon, Apr 26, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Location:
Zoom
Speaker(s):
Alexander Kaye
The Past and Future of the Iraqi city of Mosul
Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Location:
Zoom webinar
Speaker(s):
Rasha Al Aqeedi, The Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy
The Oldest Guard: Landowners, Local Memory, and the Making of the Zionist Settler Past
Mon, Apr 19, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Location:
Zoom
Speaker(s):
Liora Halperin
An Arabian Port in Global Perspective: Jeddah, the Gate to Mecca from the mid-19th to mid-20th Centuries
Thu, Apr 15, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Location:
Zoom webinar
Speaker(s):
Ulrike Freitag, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient and Freie Universität Berlin
The History of Jihadism in Europe and its Evolution, 1989-2021
Tue, Apr 13, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Location:
Zoom webinar
Speaker(s):
Hugo J. Micheron, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University
Mediation Models and the Forming of Plant Publics in Morocco
Mon, Apr 12, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Location:
Zoom
Speaker(s):
Becky Schulthies
The Iranian Revolution: A Precursor to Worldwide Populism?
Wed, Apr 7, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Location:
Zoom webinar
Speaker(s):
Houchang Chehabi, Boston University
On the Arab Home as a Site of Revolution in Mandate Palestine
Mon, Apr 5, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Location:
Zoom
Speaker(s):
Mai Taha
Politics at the Periphery: Local Governance and Regime Consolidation in Postwar Lebanon
Wed, Mar 31, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Location:
Zoom webinar
Speaker(s):
Christiana Parreira, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University
How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Historic Liberal-Islamic Alliance
Mon, Mar 29, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Location:
Zoom
Speaker(s):
Elizabeth Thompson
The Dragoman Renaissance: Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism
Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:20 pm
Location:
Zoom
Speaker(s):
E. Natalie Rothman
CANCELLED: The Last Shah: America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty
Wed, Mar 17, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Location:
Zoom webinar
Speaker(s):
Ray Takeyh, Council on Foreign Relations
Cultural Memories of the Church of Mary in the Valley of Josaphat
Mon, Mar 8, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Location:
Zoom
Speaker(s):
Mary Farag
Apocalypticism and Imperial Criticism: (Re)reading of Durr-i Meknun (The Hidden Pearl, c. 1460) in the Context of the anti-Ottoman Crusade
Mon, Mar 1, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Location:
Zoom
Speaker(s):
Ebru Turan
Wonder as a Problem for Islamic History
Mon, Feb 22, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Location:
Zoom
Speaker(s):
Travis Zadeh
Imperial and Local Horizons in Fifteenth-century Ottoman Architecture
Mon, Feb 15, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Location:
Zoom
Speaker(s):
Patricia Blessing
Global Jihad and Movements of Rage
Tue, Feb 9, 2021, 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Location:
Zoom
Speaker(s):
Dr. Glenn E. Robinson, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California