Middle Eastern Studies Lectures

The Way I See It: Reflections of an Arab-American Journalist on the Middle East, Media and the State of Journalism

Mohyeldin, Ayman (2014-04-24)

Ayman Mohyeldin is a Foreign Correspondent for NBC News based in Cairo. Prior to joining NBC, Ayman was a correspondent for Al Jazeera English based in Cairo where he was at the epicenter of Arab uprisings covering the ...
Poets and Teachers in Hades: The Katabasis as Authorial Satire

Nilsson, Ingela (2014-04-29)

This lecture will focus on the underworld as a place where one may encounter authors and intellectuals of the past or the present; a platform where their issues may be displayed and discussed. These discussions may function ...
Leaving Iberia: A Mufti, His Fatwa, and the Islamic Obligation to Emigrate

Hendrickson, Jocelyn (2014-04-11)

During the fall of al-Andalus (known to Christians as the reconquista) some of the first substantial Muslim populations came under permanent non-Muslim rule. For centuries, Muslims had lived alongside Jews and Christians ...