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We look forwarding to hosting Michael Christopher Low at Duke on March 25. Join us for his public talk at 1 PM in the Rubenstein Library! Hope to see you there.
ALT More event details can be found on Duke Event Calendar
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Explore Duke University Libraries’ holdings about the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne and the Population Exchange between Greece and Turkey. This short series by Sean Swanick, Librarian for Middle East, North Africa, and Islamic Studies can be accessed here:
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There is still time to apply! Learn more about this exciting and new MA program in the Dept. of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke. asianmideast.duke.edu/gradua…
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We look forward to welcoming Prof. Fahrenthold to Duke on Feb. 11 to give a lecture on her new book! We hope you can join us!
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Elizabeth Williams will be giving a book talk tomorrow, Tuesday, Jan. 28th at Duke in the Pink Parlor on East Campus. We hope you can join us!
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On Barak, social and cultural historian of science and technology and Professor of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University, will visit Duke to give a book talk on February 10 at 4:30 PM! We hope to see you there!
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Join us for an on-campus book talk, "States of Cultivation: Imperial Transition and Scientific Agriculture in the Eastern Mediterranean" with Elizabeth Williams (UMass, Lowell) on Jan. 28th at 4:30 PM!
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Professor Fahrenthold will visit Duke on Feb. 11 to discuss her new book, "Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class." We hope to see you there!
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Speaker Series: Climate History in the Middle East! Please find a number of talks happening at Duke in Spring 2025. More details to follow in January.
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A new and exciting Critical Asian & Middle Eastern Humanities M.A. Program now offered in the Dept. of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies at Duke! Learn more by visiting: asianmideast.duke.edu/gradua…
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Join us on November 11 for an in-person book talk by Timur Kuran -- Professor of Economics and Political Science, and Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University. We hope to see you there!
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Join us via Zoom on November 7 at 1 PM EST for a book presentation: Counting Egypt (Recenser l’Égypt) by Malak Labib, Research Associate at Institut français d'archéologie orientale (IFAO) in Cairo. We hope to see you there! Please register in advance: duke.zoom.us/meeting/registe…
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Oct 31 Thu 2 pm Zoom book talk by Munira Khayyat @mu_kha2 "A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon" (UC Press, 2022), commentator Fadi Bardawil (Duke AMES), chaired by Frances Hasso @nasawiyya register: middleeaststudies.duke.edu/e…
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Monday, Oct. 21, at 5:30 PM, Nathan Thrall visits Duke University to speak about his Pulitzer-winning book "A Day in the Life of Abed Salama." Registration required: duke.is/nathanthrall
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DUMESC director Adam Mestyan @adammestyan 's welcome for the new academic year middleeaststudies.duke.edu/d… "our collective task at DUMESC and DISC is also to use our privilege to learn and keep the good, the magical, and the human alive."
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Duke announces 9 new @BassConnections projects focused on geopolitical conflict in the Middle East, many led by DUMESC faculty including @esweinthal @davidhasan10 @MaraRevkin @nasawiyya dukechronicle.com/article/20…
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Join us for a lecture by Güldeniz Kıbrıs: Building a Conspiratorial Universe in Cold War Turkey: Serdengeçti and Sebilürreşad | April 19 @ 12 PM EST.
Registration open: duke.is/zeu7q
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