Roots of the Arab Spring: NEH Summer Institute for School Teachers

Roots of the Arab Spring: NEH Summer Institute for School Teachers July 15 – August 2, 2013 University of California, Davis ↗ A three-week institute for thirty school teachers on the historical roots of what has come to be called the “Arab Spring.” The University of California, Davis History Project received a grant of $185,000……

Psychoanalysis and the Middle East: Discourses and Encounters

Psychoanalysis and the Middle East: Discourses and Encounters May 5-6, 2017 The Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University ↗ 255 Sullivan Street (at Washington Square South) Image: Mona Hatoum Cellules 2012-2013 Mild steel and hand-blown glass in eight parts 170cm x variable width and depth, Installation view at Centre Pompidou,……

Unfixed Itineraries: Film and Visual Culture from Arab Worlds

A two-day symposium of scholars and artists, and an exhibition of visual art October 25 – 26, 2013 Digital Arts Research Center (DARC)UC Santa Cruz ↗ Unfixed Itineraries Exhibition Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery October 25 – December 10 Hassan Khan, Zineb Sedira, Marie El Khazen Reception October 25, 5 – 7pm Related series Moumen Smihi, Poet of Tangier Pacific……