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Contemporary Iraq: Walls and Circuits

SSMS 2135 2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies Building, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Global Studies and the Center for Middle East Studies will be hosting an event titled, "CONTEMPORARY IRAQ: WALLS AND CIRCUITS.” Mona Damluji, Stanford University: "Baghdad’s Deep Dilemma: Urban Segregation Under Occupation” Paulo Hilu Pinto, Fluminense Federal University (Brazil): "Remaking Transnational Shiism in Contemporary Iraq: Economic and Religious Geographies on the Pilgrim's Road to Karbala” Paul […]

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Robin and Robert Jones present “Refugees on the Greek Island of Lesbos”

McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

On Thursday, April 14th at 2pm in HSSB 6020, Robin and Robert Jones will speak about their experiences working with refugees landing on the Greek island of Lesbos. Their presentation is co-sponsored by the History Department, the Center for Middle East Studies, and the Argyropoulos Hellenic Studies Endowment. Robin and Robert Jones live part of their year […]

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“Survivors into Minorities: Armenians in Post-Genocide Turkey” with Lerna Ekmekcioglu (MIT)

HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Speaker: Lerna Ekmekcioglu is McMillan-Stewart Associate Professor of History at Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she is also affiliated with Women and Gender Studies Program. She specializes on Turkish and Armenian lands in the beginning of the 20th century and the history of Armenian feminism. In 2006 she co-edited a volume in Turkish about the […]

bookcover of Salim Yaqub's Imperfect Strangers Americans, Arabs, and U.S.-Middle East relations in the 1970s

Salim Yaqub, History, “Imperfect strangers: Americans, Arabs, and U.S.-Middle East Relations in the 1970s”

McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Salim Yaqub will be giving a talk on his new book, Imperfect Strangers: Americans, Arabs, and U.S.-Middle East Relations in the 1970s, which was published by Cornell University Press in September 2016. In this book Yaqub argues that the 1970s were a pivotal decade in U.S.-Arab relations—a time when Americans and Arabs became an inescapable presence […]

flyer for "Thinking Palestine Panel: 1967 and Beyond", Panel and Poster Exhibit

“Thinking Palestine Panel: 1967 and Beyond”, Panel and Poster Exhibit

Unnamed Venue University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Please join us on April 28 from 4-6:30 pm for a panel, poster exhibit, and reception for the event “Thinking Palestine: 1967 and Beyond.” The event will be at Wireframe Studio in the Music Library, Music Building 1st floor. June 2017 will mark fifty years of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, the Gaza […]

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Kelly Shannon, Florida Atlantic University. Book talk: “U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women’s Human Rights”

HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Professor Kelly Shannon of Florida Atlantic University will speak about her new book, U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women's Human Rights. She argues that since the late 1970s, the issue of women’s human rights in Islamic societies has become increasingly important to U.S. foreign policy. Her analysis sheds new light on U.S. identity and policy creation […]

Flyer for "The Deccani Trails of the St Andrews Qur’an Manuscript" by Keelan Overton on April 12 from 4-5:30PM in HSSB 3001E

The Deccani Trails of the St Andrews Qur’an Manuscript – Lecture by Dr. Keelan Overton

HSSB 3001E 3001E Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Shortly after its production in Safavid Tabriz or Herat, the single-volume Quran manuscript known as the "St Andrews Quran" traveled east to the Deccan region of southern India and circulated between four courtly contexts over the next two hundred years. The evidence for this dynamic life history is found in the codex itself, and this […]

Flyer for "The Pasha's New Clothes: The History Section of an 18th-Century Library from Acre" on April 17 from 4-6PM in HSSB 4080

The Pasha’s New Clothes: The History Section of an 18th-Century Library from Acre – Lecture by Prof. Dana Sajdi (Boston College)

HSSB 4080 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States

This is an exploration of the history booklist found in a recently discovered 'library catalogue' from a college in 18th-century Acre. Endowed by the notorious Ottoman governor of the region Ahmad Pasha al-Jazzar (d. 1804), the library seems to have been one of the largest in the Ottoman Levant. In addition to introducing the larger […]

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