News and Events

05-08-2023: Zahra Ali and "Uprisings and Women's Movement in today's Iraq"

04-29-2022: Between Arab and White

02-04-2022: Roma in the Medieval Islamic World

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09-10-2021: Race and Empire with Ann Stoler

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05-26-2021: Genetics Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity

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02-25-2021: Readings in Syrian Prison Literature

02-22-2021: After Jews and Arabs

12-02-2020: The Converso’s Return: Conversion and Sephardi History in Contemporary Literature and Culture

11-18-2020: Out of Mesopotamia

Research Workshops and Seminars

Medicine in the Middle East: Doctors, Bodies, Body Parts
May 14-15, 2020 via Zoom due to COVID-19

Dissections: Fall 2019-Spring 2020
(co-sponsored by The Kevorkian Center at NYU)
Multiple dates through Fall 2019-Spring 2020

Public Events

02-19-2020: The Streets are Talking to Me

01-30-2020: Humanism in Ruins

12-13-2019: The Flight East: WW2 Refugees in Tashkent, Tehran and Tel Aviv

12-06-2019: Egypt Salon with Jennifer Derr

12-03-2019: Emerson in Iran

11-22-2019: Egypt Salon with Sahar Aziz

10-16-2019: Egypt Salon with Mohamed Aboulghar

10-15-2019: A Shimmering Red Fish

09-19-2019: Workers’ Movement in Iran: Past and Present

Research Workshops and Seminars

Dissections: Fall 2018-Spring 2019
Co-sponsored by The Kevorkian Center at NYU
Multiple dates through Fall 2018-Spring 2019

47th Annual Conference of the North American Association of Islamic and Muslim Studies
Co-presented by the North American Association of Islamic and Muslim Studies (NAAIMS)
September 14, 2018

Centennial of the 1919 Egyptian Revolution
Co-presented by the Alliance of Egyptians in North America (AENA)
May 24, 2019

Public Events

04-30-2019: Introduction to the 2019 New York Forum of Amazigh Film

11-08-2018: Women and Gender in Iraq: between Nation-building and Fragmentation

11-06-2018: Algiers, Third World Capital

10-03-2018: 82 Names: Syria, Please Don’t Forget Us

Research Workshops and Seminars

Dissections: Fall 2017-Spring 2018
Co-sponsored by The Kevorkian Center at NYU
Multiple dates through Fall 2017-Spring 2018

Surveying Modern Egypt
April 19-20, 2018

Public Events

05-15-2018: Zaynab Will not be a Slave Again: Commemoration, War & Martyrdom

05-10-2018: Early Turkish Immigration to the United States: A Forgotten Chapter of American History

05-09-2018: War Widow: How the Six Day War Changed my Life

05-01-2018: Film Screening: “Nour”

04-10-2018: North Africa through Film

03-08-2018: Cultural Flows Between Tehran and Dubai: New Resources and Inequalities

03-07-2018: Iraqibacter: Ecologies of War and Anthropology of Wounding

03-01-2018: Charity as Politics Writ Small in Gulf Monarchies

02-15-2018: Oman, Zanzibar, and the Politics of Becoming Arab

02-07-2018: Sourcing Belief: A Conversation with GCC Artists

02-06-2018: Foucault’s Orient

02-01-2018: Belief in the Power of Believe by GCC: Exhibition Reception

11-13-2017: Remembering as a Cure for Post-Truth and Populism

Research Workshops and Seminars

Dissections: Fall 2016-Spring 2017
Co-sponsored by The Kevorkian Center at NYU
Multiple dates through Fall 2016-Spring 2017

Research Workshops and Seminars

Workshop: Medicine and Knowledge in the Middle East
Organized by Seçil Yılmaz and Beth Baron
April 1, 2016
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Dissections: Spring 2016
Co-sponsored by The Kevorkian Center at NYU
Multiple dates through Spring 2016
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Dissections: Fall 2015
Co-sponsored by The Kevorkian Center at NYU
Multiple dates through Fall 2015
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Research Workshops and Seminars

Conference on World War I and Beyond: Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek Minorities
Co-sponsored by The Asia Minor and Pontos Hellenic Research Center (AMPHRC) and The Zoryan Institute
May 21-22 2015
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Workshop: The ‘Subjects’ of International Law: Autonomy, Extraterritoriality, and the Making of Ottoman Citizens
Organized by Lale Can and Michael Christopher Low
January 7, 2015
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Dissections: New Trends in Research on the Middle East and North Africa
Organized by Arman Azimi, Spencer Bastedo, Jeremy Randall, and Chris Rominger
Multiple dates through Spring 2015
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Research Workshops and Seminars

Workshop: Delimiting Egypt: Law, Land, Bodies
Organized by Claire Panetta and Prof. Beth Baron
February 21, 2014
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Research Workshops and Seminars

Dissections: New Directions in Research in the Middle East and North Africa
Organized by Beth Baron and Melis Sulos
Multiple dates through 2012-2013
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Research Workshops and Seminars

Dissections: Body, Space and Time in the Middle East and North Africa
Organized by Beth Baron and Sara Pursley and Secil Yilmaz
Multiple dates through 2011-2012
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The 100th Anniversary of the First Arab American Novel: Ameen Rihani’s The Book of Khalid 
October 25-28, 2011
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The Politics of Conversion: Historical Perspectives, Sociological and Anthropological Insights
Organized by Ceren Ozgul
October 14, 2011
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Research Workshops and Seminars

Diwan: A Forum for the Arts
Organized by Diwan
March 25-26, 2011
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Dissections: Sex, Science, and Medicine in the Middle East and North Africa
Organized by Beth Baron and Sara Pursley
Multiple dates through 2010-2011
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The Politics of Conversion: Anthropological, Socioological, and Historical Perspectives
Organized by Ceren Ozgul
December 3, 2010
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The Future of Egypt: A Conference
Co-presented by Alwan for the Arts, and the Alliance of Egyptian Americans
May 15, 2010
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Middle Eastern Diaspora Activism
Organized by Anny Bakalian and Mehdi Bozorgmehr
March 7, 2008
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Forgotten Children in the Middle East: The Orphaned and Abandoned
Organized by Beth Baron, Co-Director, MEMEAC
April 20, 2007
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American Foundations, NGOs, and the Middle East: The Politics of Social Welfare
Organized by Beth Baron, Co-Director, MEMEAC, with funding from the CUNY Faculty Development Grant
April 8, 2005
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Middle Eastern Diasporas: (In)visible Minorities
Co-presented by the Council on Middle East Studies at Yale University and funded by Yale University
March 18-20, 2005
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A Century of Armenians in America: Voices From New Scholarship
Discussants: Isabel Kaprielian-Churchill, Aghop der Karabetian, Susan Pattie
Participants: Knarik Avakian, George Byron Kooshian, Jr., Ben Alexander, Diana Vartan, Margaret Manoogian, Claudia der Martirosian, Matthew Ari Jendian, Khachig Tölölyan
October 9, 2004
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American Missionaries in the Middle East: Women, Children and Social Welfare
Discussants: Mandana Limbert, Robert Tignor, Elena Frangakis-Syrett
Participants: Eleanor Doumato, Ellen Fleischmann, Heather Sharkey, Barbara Merguerian, Hilmar Kaiser
October 1, 2004
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Research Workshops and Seminars

Race and Slavery Between the Middle East and Africa
Discussants: Khaled Fahmy, Seteney Shami, Robert Tignor
Participants: Emad Helal, Mandana Limbert, Thomas McDow, Eve Troutt Powell, Sara Pursley, Elizabeth Smith
April 23, 2004
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Gendering Middle Eastern History
Discussants: Marnia Lazreg, Rula Abisaab
Participants: Malek Abisaab, Karen Kern, Akram Khater, Lisa Pollard, Sara Pursley
December 12, 2003
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Research Workshops and Seminars

MEMEAC Faculty Workshop
Discussants: Mandana Limbert, Robert Tignor, Elena Frangakis-Syrett
Participants: Simon Davis, Mandana Limbert, Jonathan Shannon, Elhum Haghighat
May 2, 2003
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Law and Order in Egypt
Moderator: Talal Asad
Participants: Hussein Agrama, Beth Baron, Elliott Colla, Amr Shalakany, Mohammed Tabishat
March 14, 2003