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CMES

@cmesucsb

This is the official twitter account of the UCSB Center for Middle East Studies. RT not necessarily endorsement.

 Isla Vista, CA
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Joined September 2016
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Join us for our webinar, Mobility & Agency in Contemporary Yemeni Diaspora, for a conversation among leading and emerging scholars in Yemeni migration studies around meanings of mobility and agency in contemporary Yemeni diaspora. Register here 👇 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
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UPDATE: This event has been postponed. New date will be announced soon.
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Join us on October 18 at 5:30-7:30 pm for Arabic Glitch: a book launch + AR exhibit at 6020 HSSB at UCSB. Taking from the virtual and bringing back into the material, Laila Shereen Sakr will discuss her new book with George Legrady , Constance Penley, and Sherene Seikaly.
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Join us on October 18 at 5:30-7:30 pm for Arabic Glitch: a book launch + AR exhibit at 6020 HSSB at UCSB. Taking from the virtual and bringing back into the material, Laila Shereen Sakr will discuss her new book with George Legrady , Constance Penley, and Sherene Seikaly.
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CMES congratulates Dr. Farshad Sonboldel, UCSB's the Middle East Studies Librarian and Area Studies Collection Strategist, on his upcoming book, The Rebellion of Forms in Modern Persian Poetry (Bloomsbury).
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#forthcoming Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky offers a historiographical corrective: the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire created a refugee regime, predating refugee systems set up by the League of Nations and the United Nations. sup.org/books/title/?id=3313…
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Join us on 6/6 at 2pm for "American Muslim Comedy: A Serious Conversation," featuring four Muslim American comedians and two scholars. Event will be livestreamed via Zoom. See website for details and to register. Free and open to all! cappscenter.ucsb.edu/news/ev…
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Please use the QR code to register or try this link: ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/registe…
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Please join UCSB's CMES for our final webinar in our Spotlight Series, featuring a talk by Sergey Salushchev on Friday May 26 at 11 am PT. Register to attend the webinar here: ucsb.zoom.us/.../register/WN…
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Thank you Jia Ching-Chen, Jin-Sook Lee, Samantha Harris, Sandy Sum, Tamma Carleton, Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj, Erik Mallory, Marissa Samuels, Mariah Miller, & MacKenzie Wade for presenting at our annual research symposium on Cooperative Economics and Central Coast Regional Equity!!
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Please join UCSB's CMES for our final webinar in our Spotlight Series, featuring a talk by Sergey Salushchev on Friday May 26 at 11 am PT. Register to attend the webinar here: ucsb.zoom.us/.../register/WN…
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A gesture of solidarity, by way of art, with the struggle for Iranian women’s rights--UCSB Arts & Lectures, Tuesday May 9 news.ucsb.edu/2023/021030/ge…

A gesture of solidarity, by way of art, with the struggle for Iranian women’s rights

The public art installation "Woman. Life. Freedom," created in response to systemic gender inequity and discrimination in Iran, will be projected outside the Art, Design & Architecture Museum

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Please join us on May 9 at the UCSB Art, Design & Architecture Museum for Woman Life Freedom: a Public Art Projection. The art will be projected onto the exterior walls of the museum from 8-11pm. Stop by or stay for a while and engage the art in community.
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Join us WEDNESDAY (4/26) for two events at @ucsbmcc - panel on Asian American activism (3pm), lecture by #StopAAPIHate co-founder @KulkarniManju (5pm). See website for more details. Both events are free and open to all, in person and livestreamed online!
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The Division of Humanities and Fine Arts at UCSB highlighted Nasser Rabbat's recent lecture, “Al-Maqrizi’s Khitat: A Transhistorical Paean to Cairo,” at CMES. hfa.ucsb.edu/news-entries/20…
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Join us on 4/26 for two events at @ucsbmcc: a panel on Asian American activism (3pm) and a lecture by #StopAAPIHate co-founder Manjusha Kulkarni @KulkarniManju (5pm). See website for more details. Both events are free and open to all, in person and livestreamed online!
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Join our next CMES Spotlight Series webinar on Friday April 14 at 9 am PT with presentations by CMES Grad Fellows Tina Guirguis, Sebaah Hamad, and bridge mcwaid with Prof. Mona Damluji as discussant. Register to attend here: ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/registe…
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I passed this picture of my UCLA maitre, Charles Moore, @UCSB faculty club, which he designed in 1967. He taught me how to appreciate what he called the Vernacular Spectacular in architecture, which he considered a humanistic project manifest in simple wood or adobe structures.
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Join our next CMES Spotlight Series webinar on Friday April 14 at 9 am PT with presentations by CMES Grad Fellows Tina Guirguis, Sebaah Hamad, and bridge mcwaid with Prof. Mona Damluji as discussant. Register to attend here: ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/registe…
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Not to be missed: UCSB's CMES is proud to be hosting an in-person lecture by Prof. Nasser Rabbat (MIT) on his much anticipated newly published book this Thursday April 6 at 4 pm in Girvetz 2320.
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Please join us if you are able for "A Tale of Three Brothers: Ezra, Me’ir, and Hayyawi Sawda’i and a History of Cinema in Iraq," a talk by Pelle Valentin Olsen (University of Oslo) on Wednesday, April 5 at 3:30 pm in SSMS 2135. More info filmandmedia.ucsb.edu/.../pe…
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The Knowledge Production in Displacement & Forced Migration Workshop will take place at UCSB on April 17–18. The workshop explores how refugees and other displaced people produce and transmit knowledge about their migration. Info & schedule available here: migknow.hypotheses.org/
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This workshop organized by the German Historical Institute, with co-sponsorship by the UCSB Migration Initiative. CMES Vice-Director Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky is a workshop co-organizer.
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