Upcoming Events
Conference: The Cultural Turn in Arabic Literary Production
April 19-21, Faculty House and Knox Hall 509
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Recent Events
African Languages Night
April 10, 6:00 p.m.
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The Demoness in the Coat of Feathers
2019 Maan Z. Madina Lecture
April 4th, 5:00 p.m.
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Caine Prize Reading
with Makena Onjerika
March 25, 6:15 p.m., Heyman Center
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MESAAS Open House
March 6, 1:00 p.m. 
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Let’s Tell This Story Properly
with Jennifer Makumbi
March 6, 5:30 p.m., Milstein Center, Barnard
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Celebration of New Book The Shahnameh
by Hamid Dabashi
February 12, 6:15 p.m., Heyman Center
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Tankers, Tycoons, and the Making of Modern Regimes of Law, Labour, and Finance
A lecture by Laleh Khalili
February 11, 6:00 p.m.
Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard College
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Existence is Resistance
A lecture by Jasbir Puar
January 31, 6:10 p.m.
208 Knox Hall
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Shari'ah Scripts, by Brinkley Messick
December 5, 4:15 p.m., Heyman Center
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Baghdad and Beijing
November 1, 6:10 p.m.
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Mandatory Separation
October 25, 7:00 p.m.
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Inaugural Ambedkar Lectures
October 18-19
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Restating Orientalism, by Wael Hallaq
October 17, 6:15 p.m., Heyman Center
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Killing Orders: Talat Pasha’s Telegrams & the Armenian Genocide
March 28, 8:00 p.m. 
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MESAAS Open House
March 6, 3:00 p.m. 
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Area Studies and its Discontents
MESAAS Graduate Student Conference
February 22-23 2018
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Foucault's Orient
A lecture by Marnia Lazreg
November 16th, 4:10 p.m.
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Art's Afterlife
A lecture by Christina Maranci
October 12th, 6:00 p.m.
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Equality and Difference
A conversation with Prathama Banerjee and Aditya Nigam
September 28th, 6:00 p.m.
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Qissebaazi
A Multilingual Storytelling Performance
September 18th, 7:00 p.m.
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The Untold Event
Grasping Arab Children's Literature
September 12th, 4:00 p.m.
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A Century of Linguistic Representations of the Orient: A Critical Reading
2017 Maan Z. Madina Lecture
April 20th, 6:00 p.m.
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African Languages, Agency & the Production of Knowledge
Northeast Consortium for Programs in African Languages
March 24th - March 25th
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Whose Justice?
Reframing the International Criminal Court's Trial of Dominic Ongwen
Monday March 20th, 6:00 p.m.
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Don't Fall off the World: Armenian Communities in China from the 1880's to the 1950's
March 3, 2017
6:30 p.m.
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(De)stablizing Disciplines, (Re)imagining Regions
February 23 - February 24, 2017
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Rediscovering Words and Worlds: Arabic Script Collections at Columbia University
February 16 - February 17, 2017
6.30-8.00 p.m.
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Fidel Castro and Iraq in 1990
February 13, 2017
6.15-8.00 p.m.
Heyman Center, Common Room
Muhsin J. Al-Musawi
in conversation with José C Moya
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Transphilosophies: the Migration of Ideas and the Decolonization of Knowledge
Thursday, 22nd September
6.30-8.00 p.m.
Maison Française
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moderated by Omar Berrada
Roundtable in French
