Robyn Creswell: Arabic Poetry and the Project of Modernity
In popular accounts as well as UN Development reports, the Arab world appears uniquely resistant to modern ways of being and styles of thought. Yet debates ...
American Academy in Berlin
Boccaccio, Petrarch, and the Invention of "Dante" - Joseph Luzzi
NYU Florence Boccaccio, Petrarch, and the Invention of "Dante" A lecture by Prof. Joseph Luzzi, Bard College. From the time of its completion soon before ...
NYU Florence
Toward a Transcontinental Theory of Modern Comparative Literature
Using Arabic, English and French from the late 18th through the early 20th centuries,Shaden M. Tageldin traces the rise of modern comparative literature to a ...
Library of Congress
Language Between God and the Poets | Alexander Key
Stanford University Professor of Classical Arabic Literature, Alexander Key, discusses his book “Language Between God and the Poets.” Professor Key received ...
Zaytuna College
Lecture on Season of Migration to the North - Part 2
Lecture on Tayib Saleh's novel Season of Migration to the North - Part 2.
American University of Beirut
The Politics of Arabic Type Design | Nadine Chahine | TEDxUAL
Power. Politics. Identity. Typefaces embody the unspoken messages in our words, which is why it's more important than ever that there is plurality for the voices ...
TEDx Talks
al-Qa’ida, Islamic State and the Re-claiming of the Arab Poetic Tradition - Dr Elisabeth Kendall
As part of the symposium entitled 'Cultural Heritage and War', Dr Elisabeth Kendall shares her experiences of poetry within the Arab world and how it is ...
Gresham College
The Transcontinental Maghreb: Francophone Literature in a Mediterranean Context
Edwige Tamalet-Talbayev is an Assistant Professor of French at Yale University. She is also affiliated with the Ethnicity, Race, and Migration Program, as well as ...
YaleUniversity
Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab: Arab Thought and Arab Revolts
Forum Law as Culture 03.06.2014 | 18.00 h | Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Law as Culture" | 53227 Bonn Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab (Beirut/Bonn): Arab Thought ...
Law as Culture
Online Cultural Majlis: Nada Shabout 13th May 2020
Writing of Art History, Archiving and the Arab World Nada Shabout is a Professor of Art History and the Coordinator of the Contemporary Arab and Muslim ...
Sultan Al Qassemi
Yarshater Lectures - Round Table: Conceptualizing a Persianate Oecumene in the Early Modern Period
Round Table: Conceptualizing a Persianate Oecumene in the Early Modern Period April 27, 2017 Supriya Gandhi, Alan Mikhail, Steve Pincus, Sanjay ...
YaleUniversity
Post Eurocentric Poetics Arabic Jinas in Ancient Egyptian Literature
American University of Beirut
The Feminism of Nizar Qabbani l Ivana Peric
Adbi Duniya brings to you a very literary article written by Ivana Peric on the feminism of Nizar Qabbani. This article will tell you the facts of Nizar Qabbani's life ...
Adbi Duniya
Languages and Cultures of Africa. Online presentation // Master programme
Graduates are well-placed to secure positions in leading academic institutions and universities worldwide, government bodies, advertising and travel agencies, ...
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The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism: Race and the Politics of Dislocation
May 28, 2019 Speaker: Reza Zia-Ebrahimi Reza Zia-Ebrahimi discusses the origins of racial forms of Iranian nationalism by revisiting the work of Fath'ali ...
Stanford Iranian Studies Program
#ZeeJLF2018 | A Tale of Two Courts: Thanjavur and Travancore
Indira Peterson and Manu S. Pillai in conversation with Arundhathi Subramaniam.
Jaipur Literature Festival
Frankel Institute Symposium - Session 6: Medieval Myths and Modern Nationalism - 03/28/19
University of Michigan Frankel Institute Symposium Sephardic Identitites, Medieval and Early Modern. Chair: Bryan Roby Devi Mays: "Marking Elite Status: ...
University of Michigan
Theological Tolerance: A Synthetic Approach
Dr Tajul Islam, co-director of the Iqbal Centre, speaks on Mufti Amimul Ehsan's ecumenism.
University of Leeds
Francis Fukuyama: "The Origins of the State: China and India"
Francis Fukuyama, director of the International Development Program, discussed this topic as part of his lecture series entitled, "Getting to Denmark: Where the ...
Johns Hopkins University
Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Anxieties of Arab Nationalism
Margaret Litvin discusses Arab interpretations of Hamlet and what they reveal about political culture.
Cornell University
From Sayyad Qutb to Seyyed Khamenei: The Islamist Challenge of Modernity
April 7th 2017 Abbas Milani is the Hamid & Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University and a Professor (by courtesy) in the Stanford ...
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University, Sweden
"The Market for Middle Eastern Art" | Barcelona Symposium 2020
TALKING GALLERIES 8th BARCELONA SYMPOSIUM 20-21 January 2020 Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona Panel discussion "The Market for Middle ...
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Exposing Words! : al- Shidyāq‘s (d. 1887) Literary Lists
American University of Beirut Sheikh Zayed Chair for Arabic and Islamic Studies Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages Lecture: Exposing Words!
Bilal Orfali
Dr Marlé Hammond - Legacies of al-Khansāˀ, 7th Century Arab Poetess
Legacies of al-Khansāˀ, 7th Century Arab Poetess -15/03/2018 Summary: The seventh-century poet Tumāḍir Bint ˁAmr, otherwise known as the 'snub-nosed' ...
Al-Maktoum College
Global Marx, class and politics
Luxemburg Lexture by Gayatri Spivak (Columbia University, New York, USA) at the Marx200 conference on 4.5.2018 at Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung in Berlin.
Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
BBRG PRESENTS: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak on Situating Feminism
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UC Berkeley Events
Lahore Literary Festival New York 2018: Waqas Khan — On the Dot
NEW YORK, May 12, 2018 — Waqas Khan's minimalist drawings, which were recently shown at the Lahore Art Biennale, are deeply inspired by the Sufi poets of ...
Asia Society
Encountering Antiquity in Renaissance Europe: Greeks, Jews, and Humanists
(April 2, 2009) Princeton University History Professor Anthony Grafton discusses the role of Jewish and Greek texts and individuals in shaping Renaissance ...
Stanford
Martin Buber and Martin Heidegger in Dialogue, Paul Mendes-Flohr
Paul Mendes-Flohr's major research interests include modern Jewish intellectual history, modern Jewish philosophy and religious thought, philosophy of ...
The University of Chicago
The Making of Soviet Central Asia, 1917-1932
Adeeb Khalid discusses the transformation of culture and identity in Central Asia during the early years of Soviet rule and how the transformations in culture ...
Library of Congress
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
Featuring Daron Acemoglu, Coauthor and Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; with comments by John Nye, Professor of Economics, ...
The Cato Institute
Mediterranean Mediations with Iain Chambers and Lidia Curti
Iain Chambers, "Mediterranean Blues: Thinking With the Diver" In this talk, organized around the famous painting of the diver in the Paestum archaeological ...
Duke Franklin Humanities Institute
Iranian Literature in French: Three Decades of History
Talk by Sorour Kasmai at Stanford University on May 22, 2018. Sorour is a novelist, translator, and publisher. She writes in Persian and French. Her books ...
Stanford Iranian Studies Program
The Man Who Invented Fiction: Cervantes & the Modern World
William Egginton discussed his new book, "The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World." Speaker Biography: William Egginton ...
Library of Congress
Raja Rammohan Roy: Modern education
NPTEL IIT Guwahati
Amitav Ghosh - A Conversation on The Great Derangement
A conversation with Amitav Ghosh on April 27, 2017, presented by the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures. Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta and ...
Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures
From Slave Ships To Black Lives Matter - Session 4
Friday, December 6, 2019 Petterutti Lounge, Brown University. Mr. Jason Walker VOCAL-NY Dr. Surafel Wondimu Abebe Institute of Ethiopian Studies Dr.
Brown University
Digitizing Early Arabic Printed Books: A Workshop - Session 2
Skip ahead to main speaker at 1:24 This recording includes: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM: Talk by Dr. Kathryn Schwartz (Digital Library of the Eastern Mediterranean, ...
Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
The Renaissance: Was it a Thing? - Crash Course World History #22
In which John Green teaches you about the European Renaissance. European learning changed the world in the 15th and 16th century, but was it a cultural ...
CrashCourse
The History of Autobiography and Byzantine Literature
This paper was delivered by Stratis Papaioannou at the Byzantine/Modernism Symposium in a panel entitled, "Byzantine Subjectivity in Modernity," which also ...
YaleUniversity
Panel Discussion: Do Area Studies Matter? With Lisa Wedeen, Sanjay Chaturvedi, Ankur Datta
In this panel discussion held in collaboration with South Asian University, the panelists discussed how the study of areas has been reconceived in the context of ...
The University of Chicago
The View from Water’s Edge: Red Sea Islands and Indian Ocean History
Before the circumnavigation of Africa by the Portuguese, the corridor of the Red Sea had linked the Mediterranean with the Indian Ocean world, where many of ...
American Academy in Berlin
