Join the CIS Center for Middle East Studies for a discussion on Yemen's socio-political role today, featuring Waleed Mahdi, Associate Professor of US-Arab Cultural Politics and Co-Director of the Center for Middle East Studies at OU.
*Lunch will be served.
Location: Farzaneh Hall, Room 145
Date & Time: Wednesday, April 1 at 12pm
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The CIS Center for Middle East Studies hosted a discussion on Yemen's socio-political role today, featuring Waleed Mahdi, Associate Professor of US-Arab Cultural Politics and Co-Director of the Center for Middle East Studies at OU.
The CIS Center for Middle East Studies and OU World Literature Today hosted a presentation by Nouri Gana, Professor of Comparative Literature and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA. Gana presented his recent book, Melancholy acts: defeat and cultural critique in the arab world.
Alia Ali is a Yemeni-Bosnian-US artist whose multi-media art provides cross-cultural aesthetics surrounding textile, color and photography. In this talk, she shares how her artwork makes sense of Yemen’s human-made tragedy and look to Yemeni futures with a sense of hope and resilience.
Join us for a panel that discusses what the end of Assad’s rule means for Syrians and the United States featuring Joshua Landis, Quincy Institute non-resident fellow and director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma, Steven Simon, senior research fellow at the Quincy Institute, and Caroline Rose, director of the Strategic Blind Spots Portfolio at the New Lines Institute. Adam Weinstein, deputy director of the Middle East program at the Quincy Institute, will moderate.
“The Dawn is Too Far” Film Screening and Q&A
Join the Center for Middle East Studies for a film screening and Q&A of “The Dawn is Too Far” directed by Persis Karim.
Persis Karim is the director of the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State University where she also teaches in the Department of Humanities and Comparative and World Literature. “The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life,” is her first film and reflects her interest in documenting and sharing the larger history and personal stories of those who are part of the global Iranian diaspora.
November 8, 2023: Israel & Palestine: Is It Too Late for a Two State Solution?
A panel discussion with Rhona Seidelman, OU Department of History; Husam Mohamad, Professor of Political Science, University of Central Oklahoma; Hadas Cohen, OU Department of History; Joshua Landis, OU Department of International & Area Studies
October 23, 2023: From God’s Sovereignty to Godlike States: The Nineteenth-Century Worlds of Sayyid Fad, a talk with Wilson Chacko Jacob, Concordia University, Montréal. A Center for Middle East Studies Brown Bag Lecture.
April 3, 2023: #YemenCan'tWait: Civil Actors and Justice Work in Yemen, a talk with with Stacey Philbrick Yadav, Associate Professor of International Relations, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, co-sponsored by the Center for Middle East Studies, the Center for Peace and Development and Security in Context
November 9, 2022: United States, China and Great Power Competition in the Middle East, A Zoom talk with Ambassador Chas Freeman, Visiting Scholar, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, co-sponsored by the Center for Middle East Studies and the Institute for US-China Issues
October 18, 2022: The Biden Administration, Human Rights, and Democracy in the Middle East, a Brownbag Lecture Series talk with with Samer Shehata, Colin Mackey and Patricia Molina de Mackey Associate Professor in Middle East Studies, OU Department of International & Area Studies
October 3, 2022: Jordan-United States Relations: An Enduring Friendship in the Ever-Changing Middle East, a conversation with Ambassador Dina Kawar, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to the United States of America
September 15, 2022: Syria and the Middle East: What is America's Mission?
CMES Brown Bag Lecture Series with Joshua Landis
November 18, 2021: Sunni-Shi'a Relations in the Middle East (PDF), a talk with IAS Professor Joshua Landis at the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs
September 29, 2021: Global Jihad and Movements of Rage, with Glenn E. Robinson, Professor, Naval Postgraduate School
April 7, 2021: Yezidis of Iraq: The Struggle Against a 21st Century Genocide, a documentary and conversation with Pari Ibrahim, Executive Director of the Free Yezidi Foundation
October 25, 2021: Leaving Afghanistan: Fowzia Karimi on Her Family's Flight and Her Art, with author Fowzia Karimi
August 30, 2021: Teach-In and Discussion on Afghanistan, a panel discussion
March 29, 2021: Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance, with Mustafa Akyol, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute
September 10, 2020: Conversation with Joshua Landis: Update on Syria and the Middle East
February 3, 2020: Iran-US Conflict: What's Next for the Region? with Trita Parsi, Executive Director at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, IAS Associate Professor Samer Shehata, and IAS Professor Joshua Landis
November 8, 2019: Afghanistan, Iraq, and the War on Terror, with John Nash, CEO, Sporting Global Former US diplomat and US Army Special Operations Officer
November 7, 2019: Iranian Reconstruction and Development in Syria: Geopolitical Interests, Conflict-Based Drivers, and Transnational Linkages, with Eric Lob, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University
October 28, 2019: The Fall of the ISIS Caliphate: The Battle for Mosul, with with James Verini, New York Times Magazine
April 25-26, 2019: IAS Symposium, The Struggle to Shape a New Middle East Regional Order
April 25, 2019: Jihadi Salafism and the Decline of Isis: What’s Next? with Cole Bunzel, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Islamic Law and Civilization, Yale Law School
April 2, 2019: The New Turkey and the Middle East, with Mustafa Akyol, Senior Fellow, CATO Institute
February 19, 2019: The Contagion of Religious Nationalism in the Middle East, with Mark Farha, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
