CMENAS Events

Upcoming Events

Feb
20
Thu
CMENAS Lecture Series: "Mormons and Armenians in the Ottoman Empire"
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Lecture title: "Mormons and Armenians in the Ottoman Empire"

Speaker: Kent Schull, Associate Professor of History at Binghamton University
Mar
20
Thu
CMENAS Lecture Series: "Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia"
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Lecture title: "Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia"

Speaker: Natalie Koch, Professor of Geography and the Environment at Syracuse University
Apr
24
Thu
CMENAS Lecture Series: "Under the Same Sky: Everyday Politics of Religious Difference in Turkey"
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Lecture title: "Under the Same Sky: Everyday Politics of Religious Difference in Turkey"

Speaker: Secil Dagtas, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Waterloo University

  • Past Events
    • Great Lakes Ottoman Workshop (GLOW)
    • Memorial Walk - Armenian Genocide
    • Middle East and North Africa Culture Night and Calligraphy Workshop with Nada Odeh, at American Civic Association
    • Calligraphy Workshop with Syrian Artist, Nada Odeh, at BU
    • Karagoz Workshop
    • Book Talk:  "Stranger in the Desert: A Family Story" by Jordan Salama
    • Book Talk:  "Devotion to the Administrative State" by Mona Oraby (Howard University)
    • Book Talk:  "Domicide: Architecture, War and the Destruction of Home in Syria" by Ammar Azzouz
    • Film screening of "Boycott" followed by Q&A with Bahia Amawi and Jordana Rubenstein
    • Commemoration of the Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria: Film screening of the Documentary "Hatay: 1-11 September 2023"
    • Middle East and North Africa Culture Night
    • Art as survival and resistance: Guantamo in the Global War on Terror
    • Middle East and North Africa Culture Night
    • End of the semester potluck
    • Forum for peace: Israel and Palestine 3
    • Azize Aslan's book launch: "Anticapitalist economy in Rojava"
    • Forum for peace: Israel and Palestine
    • Film screening of "The Present" followed by Q&A with the director
    • Open House
    • Lecture: "Arab Istanbulites at the End of the Ottoman Empire.” (Presented by Professor Mostafa Minawi, Cornell University)
    • CMENAS Faculty Affiliates Business Meeting
    • Meet the American Civic Association (ACA)