Fall 2014
September 18
Rogaia Abusharaf (Georgetown-Qatar), “Migration in Pre-Oil Qatar”
September 23
Elizabeth Dickinson (Independent Journalist), “Humanitarian Aid in Syria”
October 23
Tariq al-Jamil (Swarthmore College), “Bodily Transactions: The Economy of Marriage, Slavery, and Divorce in Shi’i and Sunni Law”
October 28
Ali Alraouf (University of Qatar), “Doha is not Dubai: From Dubaization to Dohaization, A Critical Narrative of Gulf Urbanity”
November 5
Helga Tawil-Souri (NYU New York), “Digital Occupation”
November 11
Sabrina Joseph (Zayed University), “Law, Society, and the Management of Land and Water Resources in 17th and 18th Century Syria)
November 18
Michele Bambling (Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation), “ “Lest we Forget”: Structures of Memory in the UAE”
November 25
Mona Abaza (AUC), “The Cotton Plantation Remembered: An Egyptian Family Story”
December 4
Mark Cohen (Princeton Emeritus/NYUAD), “Maimonides, Commercial Law, and the Jewish Maghribi Merchants as Portrayed in the Eleventh and Twelfth-Century Documents from the Cairo Geniza”
December 11
Najam Haider (Barnard College), “Variations of Resistance: Musa al-Kazim and the Role of Rhetoric in Shii Historiography”
Spring 2015
February 4 (A6 1159)
Justin Stearns (NYUAD), "Rational Sciences in Islamic Thought: “Science” in the work of Sufis, Jurists, and Theologians in 17th Century Morocco"
February 8 (Institute Lecture)
Valerie Hoffman (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), "Ibadi Islam: Its origins and place in Islamic Thought)
February 9 (A6 1159)
Valerie Hoffman (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), "Ibadism and Mysticism: Thought, Practice and Controversy in Modern Oman”
February 11 (A6 1159)
Tareq al-Rabei (SOAS), "The Cameleers of the National Spirit: Bidun (stateless) poets and Kuwaiti Literary History."
February 26 (A6 1159)
Zachary Valentine Wright (Northwestern University in Qatar), "The Tariqa Muhammadiyya in the 18th Century Islamic World" (co-sponsored by Africana Studies)
March 9 (A6 1159)
Ghazi al-Mulaifi (New York University), "Al-Kout and the Sea: An inquiry into the Production of Kuwaiti Maritime Heritage"
April 2 (A6 008)
Sultan Al Qassemi (Barjeel Foundation), "Politics in Modern Arab Art"
April 9 (A6 1159)
Judith Tucker (Georgetown University in Qatar), "Mediterranean Pirates, Rule Breakers or Makers?"
April 15 (A6 1159)
Bill Spindle (The Wall Street Journal), "From 9-11 to ISIS: A personal reporting journey through the Middle East"
April 22 (A6 1159)
Feras Hamza (Wollongong University in Dubai)- "Anti-Sectarianism in the Early Muslim Community"
April 23 (A6 1159)
Ella Shohat (NYU New York), "The Question of Judeo-Arabic(s)'"
April 29 (A6 1159)
Rosemary Admiral (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), "Dramatizing Divorce: Gendered Approaches to the Dissolution of Marriage in Marinid Morocco"
May 6 (A6 1159)
Matt Maclean (New York University), "A Spatial History of the UAE: Flows, Infrastructures, and the Emergence of a National Identity"
May 11 (Institute Public Lecture)
Toby Matthiesen (Cambridge University), "The Politics of Sectarianism in the Middle East"
May 12 (A6 1159)
Toby Matthiesen (Cambridge University), "The Gulf in the Global Cold War: The History of Arab Nationalists and Leftists in the Gulf States".