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Speakers from ’25-’26 included:<\/b><\/h6>\n

In the spring of 2026, Middle East Studies collaborated with a number of different departments and programs at the college to host the following guests:<\/p>\n

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— Abdulla Bayyari, a researcher at the Institute for Palestine Studies and a member of the editorial board for the\u00a0Journal for Palestine Studies,\u00a0<\/i>offered a two-day workshop for faculty and students entitled, When Cities Become Targets: Urbicide and the Politics of Space in Palestine and a public lecture entitled “From the Sky to the Underground: Colonial Spatial Warfare and Palestinian Counter-Geographies.” He also met with several classes and interested students.<\/div>\n
— Zahi Zalloua, the Cushing Eells Professor of Philosophy and Literature, and the Director of Indigeneity, Race, and Ethnicity Studies at Whitman College, gave a public lecture entitled Gaza and the Boomerang Effect. <\/i>He also met with several classes and interested students.<\/div>\n
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\nSpeakers from ’21-’22 included:<\/b><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n
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In the spring of 2022, Middle East Studies collaborated with a number of different departments and programs at the college to host Dr. Yalda Hamidi, Assistant Professor, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, Minnesota State University, Mankato who gave a public lecture on the intersection between gender and politics in Iran.<\/div>\n
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Speakers from ’17-’18 included:<\/b><\/h6>\n

Hakim Abderrezak from the University of Minnesota’s Department of French and Italian will give a talk entitled <\/span>“Burning the Sea, the Refugee Crisis and the Mediterranean Cemetery”
\n<\/span>Wednesday 1 November, Tomson Hall 280, 7.30pm<\/span><\/p>\n

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Speakers from ’16-’17 included:<\/b><\/h6>\n

Professor Anver Emon of the University of Toronto, who gave a lecture on \u201cIslamic Natural Law Theories\u201d and “Islamic Law at the Borders: Jurisdiction and Sharia in International Child Abductions” at St. Olaf and Carleton. \u00a0Prof. Emon also met with students interested in Middle East Studies and Religion and International Law from both colleges and held a workshop for faculty.<\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Mitri al-Raheb of Dar al-Kalima College in Bethlehem, who gave a lecture on Religion and Political Disagreement in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Steven Caton of Harvard University, who gave lectures on “The Ethnography of Film Industries in the Middle East” and “Up the Creek: Land, Water, and Development in Dubai” at St. Olaf and Carleton. \u00a0Prof. Caton also met with students from both colleges and held a workshop for faculty.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Speakers from ’15-’16 included:<\/b><\/h6>\n

Professor Amr Hamzawy from the American University in Cairo\/Stanford University, who gave a talk on Authoritarianism in Egypt, the visit of Jaylani Hussein from the Minneapolis chapter of the Council on American and Islamic Relations who gave a talk on Islamophobia and government-community relations in Minneapolis, and the visit of Professor Nadav Shelef from the University of Wisconsin at Madison who gave a talk on Nationalism in Israeli politics.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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