Near Eastern Studies Seminar Webinar Recordings

Seminar Series 2022-2023
Spring Seminars hosted by Professor Jonathan Gribetz
 

Topic: Book Talk: "Stranger in My Own Land" 

Speaker: Fida Jiryis, Author

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Past Seminar Series Recordings

 
Seminar Series 2021-22
Fall Webinars hosted by Professor Marina Rustow

 

 

Topic: The Early Years of Ottoman Rule in Egypt in the Light of the Cairo Geniza

Speaker: Jane Hathaway, Ohio State University

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Topic: Burn after Reading! Christian Arab Merchant Letters of the Eastern Mediterranean around 1800

Speaker: Boris Liebrenz, Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Leipzig

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Topic: Epistolary Spaces and Sacred Networks: A Reappraisal of the Ahrari Naqshbandi Tariqa

Speaker: Gibran Siddiqui, Princeton University

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Topic: Everyone Loves a Good Pirate Tale: On the “Discovery” of a Seventeenth-Century Yemeni Coin in Rhode Island

Speaker: Nancy Um, Binghamton University

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Topic: The “Qarmathian” Qur’an: From the Mausoleum to the Museum

Speaker: Alya Karame, American University of Beirut

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Topic: Patterns of Institutional and Elite Transformation in Early Modern Yemen (15th - 17th Centuries)

Speaker: Ekaterina Pukhovaia, Princeton University

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Topic: Barley, Wheat, and Ex-Communication: A Study of Judeo-Persian Correspondence from Eleventh-Century Bamiyan

Speaker: Ofir Haim

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Seminar Series 2020- 21
Fall Webinars hosted by Professor Lara Harb

 

 

Topic: Near Eastern Studies Seminar Series #2 "The Englishing of al-Hariri’s Maqamat"

Speaker: Michael Cooperson, The University of California, Los Angeles

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Topic: Near Eastern Studies Seminar Series #4: “Egypt's Successful Transition to Failed Capitalism”

Speaker: Amr Adly, American University in Cairo

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Topic: NES Seminar Series #5 Visions of Deliverance. Moriscos and the Politics of Prophecy in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Speaker: Mayte Green-Mercado, Rutgers University- Newark

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Topic: NES Seminar Series #7 "Print and the Arabo-Islamic Renaissance"

Speaker: Ahmed El Shamsy, The University of Chicago

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Topic: “NES Seminar Series #8 The Literary Qurʾan

Speaker: Hoda El Shakry, University of Chicago

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Topic: NES Seminar Series #9 "Mapping Medicine with the Platonic Cosmos in the Medieval Islamicate World"

Speaker: Aileen Das, Universisty of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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Topic: NES Seminar Series #10 "Of Two Worlds: Ottoman Muslims Between Empire and Nation (1878-1908)"

Milena Methodieva, University of Toronto

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Topic: NES Seminar Series #11 The Islamic Age of Communication

Speaker: Beatrice Gruendler, Freie Universitat Berlin

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Topic: NES Seminar Series #12 Sirat 'Antar and formation of Arab tribal identity in Mamluk Egypt

Speaker: Yossef Rapoport, Queen Mary University of London

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