Please join the Crown Center for International Studies for a Crown Seminar with Hosam Aboul-Ela, in conversation with Mona Kareem, on Wednesday, April 19, 2023 from 11:00am–12:15pm EDT.
Join the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies for a virtual talk with Professor Shahzad Bashir, March 30 at Noon EST
Join us for a virtual Crown Seminar with Deborah Amos, in conversation with Wendy Pearlman, March 29 at 11am EST
Join Homeira Qaderi and the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for a virtual talk May 17 at 12PM EST
The Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University is pleased to announce the release of Counter/Argument: A Middle East Podcast, with Episode 1 launching February 7, 2023
Weeping is a way to express commitment to a community and what it holds to be sacred, but not all weeping is the same, even in a single religious tradition.
How might we pursue comparative, critical study of premodern processes of racialization? This talk will cover main methods, meanings, and sources that the author engages in examining racialization in the Islamic Middle Ages, as well as some past and present problematics of doing so within the Euro-American academy.
This event is taking place in remembrance of Etel Adnan, the beloved Lebanese-American poet, essayist, and visual artist, who passed away in November 2021. She is survived by her longtime partner, renowned Syrian Lebanese artist Simone Fattal.