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The Middle East Institute of Columbia University, founded in 1954, has
helped to set the national pace in developing an interdisciplinary
approach to the study of the Middle East from the rise of Islam to the
present, with a primary focus on the 19th and 20th centuries. Fostering
an inter-regional and multi-disciplinary approach to the region, the
Institute focuses on the Arab countries, Armenia, Iran, Israel, Turkey,
Central Asia, and Muslim Diaspora communities.
The Institute sponsors approximately 30 lunch-time talks per year on
topics ranging from art and literature to current events, hosts
conferences, and provides a neutral atmosphere for scholarly and student
exchanges of views on issues concerning the Middle East, North Africa,
and Central Asia. It offers courses and outreach seminars to teachers
and adult education groups, briefs journalists, and generally acts as a
clearing-house for requests for information on the region and its
peoples by the media, educational professionals, and the interested
public, drawing upon the expertise of its own staff and the faculty of
the School of International and Public Affairs and Columbia University.
Middle East Institute of Columbia University
Events – SPRING 2010
- Thursday, January 14
Policing Muslims: Resistance and Redemption
Time: 4-8pm
Location: Altschul Auditorium, International Affairs Building, Room 417, 420 West 118th Street
"Western Responses to the Torture of Muslims"
4-5:30pm: Keynote address by Sherene Razack, Professor of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.
"The New Muslim Cool"
6-8pm: A screening of the film "The New Muslim Cool," by Jennifer Taylor, with a discussion with Zaheer Ali (Columbia University).
Co-sponsored by Columbia University's Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life; Institute of African Studies; and Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race; as well as the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding's Center for the Study of American Muslims and George Mason University's Ali Vural Ak Center for Islamic Studies.
- Friday, January 22, 2010
The screening of Zeynep Gursel's documentary, Coffee Futures (2009)
Time: 1pm
Location: The Faculty House, 2nd Floor , Room 1
Co-sponsored by: The Turkish Studies Seminar and The Sheldon Scheps Library Series in Anthropology, The Department of Sociology
- Thursday, January 28, 2010
The Middle East in a Multipolar World
A brown bag lecture with Dilip Hiro
Time: 12:30-2pm
Location: 208 Knox
- Thursday, January 28, 2010
"The Rocky Road of Armenian-Turkish Normalization: Before and After the Protocols" with Arman Grigoryan
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Lindsay Rogers Common Room, 7th floor, International Affairs Building
- Monday, February 8, 2010
"Utopia against Utopia: Herzl's Zionist Imagination" a brown bag lecture with Eran Kaplan
Time: 12:30-2pm
Location: 207 Knox Hall
Co-sponsored by: Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies
- Wednesday, February 10, 2010
My Jerusalem: Tense Politics of the Everyday with Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
Time: 6-7:30 p.m.
Location: Lindsey Rogers Room, 7th floor, IAB
- Thursday, February 11, 2010
Why History Matters: International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israel Conflict
A brown bag lecture with Victor Kattan
Time: 12:30-2pm
Location: 208 Knox Hall
- Thursday, February 11, 2010
The Non-Proliferation Issue within the Iranian Context with Ambassador Gérard Araud, French Ambassador to the United Nations
A discussion moderated by Professor Richard Bulliet (Columbia University)
Date: Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Columbia University, International Affairs Building, Room 1501 420 West 118th Street (at Amsterdam Avenue)
Please RSVP to mj2412@columbia.edu
Co-sponsored by: The Columbia-Paris Alliance Program; the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion (CDTR); the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life (IRCPL); the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and the UN Studies Program
- Friday, February 12
Looking Back & Moving Forward: Human Rights in the Arab World in 2009 and Beyond
Time: 12:00-1:30pm
Location: 311 Fayerweather
Co-sponsored by: The Center for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University, The Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion and The Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life
- Thursday, February 18, 2010
Israel's Last Allies? Christian Zionists and Their Expansive Vision of the Jewish State
A brown bag with Célia Belin
Time: 12:30-2pm
Location: Knox Hall, Room 208
- Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Afghanistan: The Human Factor
Time: 12:30pm-2pm
Location: Columbia Journalism School (East End), Lecture Hall, Third Floor
Cosponsored by: The South Asia Institute, Columbia's School of Journalism, The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
- Tuesday, February 23, 2010
"Reconstructions of Fiqh Among Indonesian Traditionalist Muslims" with Martin van Bruinessen
The 2nd of the series, "Shari'a and the State, a Comparative Perspective"
Time: 3-5pm
Location: Room 1512 International Affairs building
Co-sponsored by: The Weatherhead East Asian Institute, and the Center for Democracy, Toleration and Religion
- Monday, March 1, 2010
The U.S., Hamas, and Peace in the Middle East a lecture by Robert Pastor
Time: 12-2pm
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 1501
- Thursday, March 4, 2010
"We Look Like the Enemy"
A brown bag with Rachel Shabi
Time: 12:30-2pm
Location: Knox Hall, Room 208
- Friday-Saturday April 2-3, 2010
The Challenge of Integration: Second Generation Muslims in France and the United States
Location: International Affairs Building, Room 1501
Past MEI Events
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