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09 Jan 2023

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Author Bushra Rehman: Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

Monday, January 9, 2023 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm
online and City of Asylum
Sponsored By: 
City of Asylum

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

18 Jan 2023

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The Problem of Democracy: America, the Middle East, and the Rise and Fall of an Idea

Wednesday, January 18, 2023 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Virtual, Alcoa Room Barco Law Building
Sponsored By: 
Pitt Law, Center for International Legal Education ("CILE"), and the Department of Political Science

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh:

Shadi Hamid reimagines the ongoing debate on democracy's merits and proposes an ambitious agenda for reviving the lost art of democracy promotion in the world's most undemocratic regions.

What happens when democracy produces "bad" outcomes? Is democracy good because of its outcomes or despite them? This "democratic dilemma" is one of the most persistent, vexing problems for America abroad, particularly in the Middle East--we want democracy in theory but not necessarily in practice.

18 Jan 2023

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Impossible Futures: Why Women Leave American Muslim Communities while Men Stay

Wednesday, January 18, 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Virtual
Sponsored By: 
Michigan State University

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh:

19 Jan 2023

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Environment as an Imaginative Force: Nature and Culture in Southeast Europe and the Middle East

Thursday, January 19, 2023 (All day) to Saturday, January 21, 2023 (All day)
Sponsored By: 
Center for Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies

Join a vibrant discussion of the environment as an imaginative force in Southeast Europe and the Middle East. From January 19-21, speakers will explore both regions through donkey trails, locust ecology, pictorial traditions, soil science and mapmaking, deadly environments, climate-related disaster risk policies, material landscapes of Israel and Palestine, the island of Goli Otok’s political prisons, and the intersection of nature and culture in the Carpathian Mountains.

THURSDAY JANUARY 19, 2023

9:00 - 9:15 a.m. | INTRODUCTION

9:15 - 11:15 a.m. | SESSION 1

19 Jan 2023

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The Findings of the 2022 Arab Opinion Index

Thursday, January 19, 2023 - 12:15pm to 1:15pm
Virtual
Sponsored By: 
Arab Center Washington DC

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh:

22 Jan 2023

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Free virtual screening of the film "TANTURA"

Sunday, January 22, 2023 - 12:00pm to 2:30pm
Virtual
Sponsored By: 
Palestine Museum

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh:

Screening will start at 12:00 Noon US EST; 7:00 PM Palestine Time.
94 minutes, English subtitles. The film screening will be followed by a discussion with Israeli filmmaker Alon Schwartz.

Tantura investigates the massacre at the Palestinian village of Tantura in 1948 and the dogged work of one Israeli researcher to finally expose the truth.

25 Jan 2023

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The Bridge to Nowhere and the Central Memorial at Zepa, an Island in a Bosnian Archipelago

Wednesday, January 25, 2023 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4130 Posvar Hall
Sponsored By: 
Center for Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies

25 Jan 2023

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The Bridge to Nowhere and the Central Memorial at Žepa

Wednesday, January 25, 2023 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
4130 Posvar Hall
Sponsored By: 
Center for Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies

An Island in a Bosnian Archipelago

25 Jan 2023

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The 2nd Annual Malcolm X Muslim Studies Community Forum

Wednesday, January 25, 2023 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Virtual
Sponsored By: 
The Muslim Studies Program at Michigan State University

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh.

28 Jan 2023

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Free virtual screening of the documentary film "On the Doorstep,"

Saturday, January 28, 2023 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm
Virtual
Sponsored By: 
Palestine Museum

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh:

Screening will start at 12:00 Noon US EST; 7:00 PM Palestine Time.47 minutes, English language with Arabic subtitles . The film screening will be followed by a discussion with filmmaker Sahara Dirbas and the protagonist Valerie Bisharat.

SYNOPSIS
A documentary that shows how three generations of Palestinians in U.S from Bisharat family, have maintained their emotional attachment to their home in West Jerusalem, taken over by Israelis in 1948.

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