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Rock, Paper, Scripture!
We are excited to share with you a conference happening at Yale from Nov 6-7 about Source and Materials in Late Antique Arabia and Early Islam. To learn more and view the full program, please check the link in our bio.
CMES Colloquium on Nov 5th!
Please join us for a talk about medieval Islamic education with Devin Stewart, professor of Arabic and and Islamic Studies at Emory. Hosted by Yale's Jonas Elbousty.
Thursday Nov 5th, 4-5:30PM in Luce Hall Rm 203
CMES Colloquium next Wednesday Nov 4th!
Please join us for a talk on the history of the Persian Gulf from Arang Keshavarzian, a professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at NYU. Hosted by Yale Law School's Asli Bali.
Wednesday Nov 4th, 12-1:30PM in Luce Hall Rm 202.
CMES is starting Tea on Thursdays!
Join us on Thursday Oct 29 for tea, treats, and community!
This event is open only to Yale students and affiliates.
Iran Colloquium next Thursday Oct 15th!
Please join us for a roundtable discussion about zoroastrian esotericism and religious reform in South Asia with speakers from Yale, SOAS, University of Connecticut and Princeton!
Thursday Oct 15th, 4-5:30PM in Luce Hall.
Next week, CMES along with @YaleWHC and Yale History of Science and Medicine, is co-sponsoring this event on "Trojan Horses and the Question of Palestine" featuring Tamar Novick of Technology Technical University of Munich.
The event is Tues, Sept 22 at 12PM in HQ 276.
Our first colloquim is in two weeks on October 1st! Benjamin Brower from UT Austin will be speaking about colonial violence and language in North Africa. Please come attend, engage and share widely!
More details in the flyer.
With the semester starting last week, we wanted to announce our Council on Middle East Studies Fall colloquium series! We have talks ranging from Islamic education to colonial violence to the current war in Iran.
We hope to see you there!
We are excited to introduce our second alumni spotlight of the year: Michael A. Zanger-Tishler.
Michael graduated from Yale with a double major in MMES & Ethics, Politics, and Economics in 2018. He is currently a PhD candidate in Sociology and Social Policy at Harvard.
Hear more about Michael's most memorable experiences in Yale's Modern Middle East Studies program and his journey towards becoming a scholar of transnational carceral and judicial systems here: macmillan.yale.edu/middleeas…
As the semester comes to an end, we're excited to announce our final CMES colloquium of the school year, on Apr. 28th. Join us in celebrating Chander Shekhar—an expert in Indo-Persian archival materials—to talk about Persian manuals for secretaries. We hope to see you there!
Please join us next Thursday for a discussion about possible ways forward amidst the Israeli genocide in Palestine.
Hear from speakers Michael Omer-Man and Sarah Whitson, who work for the organization DAWN to expose human rights abuses in the Middle East and North Africa.
We're delighted to present our first MMES alumni spotlight of the year: Eda S. Uzunlar. Since graduating, Eda has completed a master’s in International Development and worked in the Caribbean on climate change policy. She's currently conducting research and journalism in Istanbul
Hear more about Eda's time at Yale and her adventures after graduating here: macmillan.yale.edu/middleeas…
With Omnia El Shakry, we are excited to host Jeffrey Sacks, scholar of poetics, critical theory, and Arabic Studies, on March 26th, to discuss his new book, Poeticality: In Refusal of Settler Life. Join us for an especially worthwhile conversation amidst these troubling times.
We're so excited to welcome Princeton Fellow Stefano Di Pietrantonio to discuss his translations of Ottoman Greek-Arabic texts in Early Modern Syria—part of his larger project to understand the historical transfer of knowledge from Europe to the Levant. We hope to see you there!
Next week, we will host our first Iran colloquium of the semester! Please join us in welcoming the historian of Islam, Usman Hamid, whose work on devotional aesthetics across South Asia and Iran is interdisciplinary yet richly historical. You won't want to miss this conversation.
We are joining a host of other Yale departments in welcoming religious studies scholar Jamal Elias for a discussion of "After Rumi." Hear how the Mevlevi Sufi order used literature and social networks to build community in the post-Rumi era & snag a copy of this beautiful text!
Please join us in welcoming political scientist Marc Lynch for our first colloquium of the semester.
What is the Middle East? Is it a concrete and unified space? How does it become an American political project? We'll see you next Thursday for this lively (and timely) discussion
