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Asian Studies Center, Contact: Shashank Srivastava, shashank.srivastava@pitt.edu
www.ucis.pitt.edu/asc

Center for Russian and East European Studies. Contact: Zsuzsanna Magdo, zsuzsannamagdo@pitt.edu
ucis.pitt.edu/crees

02 Apr 2024

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Providing Health Services in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies

Tuesday, April 2, 2024 - 2:30pm to 3:45pm
Hybrid, 105 David Lawrence Hall, University of Pittsburgh
Sponsored By: 
Global Studies Center, Center for Global Health University of Pittsburgh

Please join us for a timely presentation on April 2nd at 2:30 PM (hybrid) on providing health services in complex humanitarian emergencies in
Gaza
Haiti
Ukraine

The panel included Dr. Thaer Ahmad who just returned from volunteering in Khan Younis Gaza, Dr. Yvetot Joseph calling in from Haiti, and Dr. Sahloul, executive director Medglobal and Dr. Andreescu , Human Rights in Mental Health-FGIP

Zoom Link; https://pitt.zoom.us/j/97910520901

Contact: 
eel58@pitt.edu

04 Apr 2024

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Rule of Law, Democratic Transitions, and Authoritarianism in Afghanistan

Thursday, April 4, 2024 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Online
Sponsored By: 
The University of Washington’s South Asia Center and MESA Global Academy

In this panel, four Afghanistan specialists will discuss critical topics in contemporary Afghanistan, including the rule of law, democratic transitions (and their failures), and authoritarianism.

Speakers: Anila Daulatzai, M. Ramin Mansoori, Mohammad Bashir Mobasher, Shamshad Pasarlay, Aria Fani (moderator)

This event is free!

04 Apr 2024

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Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War

Thursday, April 4, 2024 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Online
Sponsored By: 
The George Washington University’s Institute for Middle East Studies

In 1948, a war broke out that would result in Israeli independence and the erasure of Arab Palestine. Over twenty months, thousands of Jews and Arabs came from all over the world to join those already on the ground to fight in the ranks of the Israel Defense Forces and the Arab Liberation Army. With this book, the young men and women who made up these armies come to life through their letters home, writing about everything from daily life to nationalism, colonialism, race, and the character of their enemies.

03 Apr 2024

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The Politics of Disavowal: What Syria Can Tell Us about American Authoritarianism

Wednesday, April 3, 2024 - 11:00am to 12:15pm
Online
Sponsored By: 
Brandeis University’s Crown Center for Middle East Studies

Can the survival of Bashar al-Asad's regime in Syria offer insights into emerging forms of authoritarianism in the West? And what might the Syrian example suggest about how authoritarian leaders exploit digital media to create uncertainty, political impasses, and fractures among their citizens?

02 Apr 2024

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Pirates of the Red Sea? Maritime Violence and State Formation in the Indian Ocean’s Seas in the Medieval Period

Tuesday, April 2, 2024 - 5:30pm to 8:30pm
Online
Sponsored By: 
The University of Michigan’s Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and Georgia State University’s Middle East Studies Center

Piracy in the Horn of Africa and Arabian seaboards has been a major dynamic of modern geopolitics of the Western Indian Ocean (and very dramatically so in recent months), and the phenomenon of maritime predation is certainly not new in the region. Moreover, the notion of thieves of the high seas is visible in medieval Arabic sources. As in other world contexts, the very definition of the terms “piracy” and “naval predation” is of the essence.

28 Mar 2024

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Conspiracy Theory Beliefs and their Impacts in Turkey: The Gezi Park Case

Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 6:00pm
Online
Sponsored By: 
The University of Arizona Center for Middle Eastern Studies, School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, and Arizona Center for Turkish Studies

Building on Max Weber’s sociological theory, this study proposes that value-laden and instrumentally rational predispositions can explain beliefs in conspiracy theories in Turkey. It argues that changing political contexts influencing people’s values and partisan preferences lead to fluctuations between left- and right-wing tendencies in conspiracy theorizing. The presentation discusses two studies. The first explores the significance of the Turkish government’s conspiracy theories about the Gezi Park Protests in a popular forum website, Eksisozluk.

03 Apr 2024

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America’s Role in the World

Wednesday, April 3, 2024 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Online
Sponsored By: 
Indiana University's Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies

This nonpartisan event convenes diplomats, journalists, politicians and scholars to Indiana University, offering expert insights on the most critical topics to global affairs today.

26 Mar 2024

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The Impact of the Gaza War on US Presidential Election

Tuesday, March 26, 2024 - 11:30am to 1:00pm
Online (Zoom)
Sponsored By: 
Arab Center Washington DC and Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies

This event is free and open to the general public. Registration is required. This event is online only.

If you encounter registration issues, please contact NSharaf@arabcenterdc.org

02 Apr 2024

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Book Talk | Derishes of the North

Tuesday, April 2, 2024 - 11:30am to 12:30pm
Online
Sponsored By: 
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding

Rumi, the Muslim poet and mystic, has become a popular spiritual icon in the contemporary era and though his poetry and personae has resulted in some critiques of our consumption and appropriation of Islam, this talk will consider how Sufi communities in Canada with deep commitments to Rumi are defining their relationship to Rumi and Sufism through ritual practices.

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