News and Updates
SJSU Human Rights Lecture Series
Please REGISTER NOW (below) for our two upcoming events THIS WEEK that will give audience members the chance to join critical discussions on (1) the future of “national security” and defense spending in the U.S.; (2) the incredible dangers of nuclear…Continue reading→
Cultural Heritage and Identities in the Middle East: Free Online Seminar Spring 2022
Hosted on Zoom – Register for link April 19 – July 29, 2022 Wednesdays 12:00pm – 14:00pm Eastern Time Description: Today, many Middle Eastern countries are embroiled in conflict. Most of these countries (Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt) were…Continue reading→
Decolonizing and Deconstructing the MENA/SWANA: Free Online Seminar Spring 2022
Hosted on Zoom – Register for link April 19 – July 22, 2022 Wednesdays 7:00am – 9:00am Eastern Time Description: The Middle East and North Africa, SWANA, is of great strategic importance, as it has a large part of the…Continue reading→
Ukraine Statement of Support
We, members of the American and international academic community, professors and students alike, emphatically condemn the Russian military aggression against Ukraine and its contempt for international law. We stand in solidarity with the people of Ukraine, we are humbled by…Continue reading→
“Amid Crisis in Ukraine, Brown Community Unites to provide support, host discussions”
Published by Brown News, on March 3, 2022 Brown, in partnership with University in Exile Consortium and Scholars at Risk, is working to provide a safe academic home to Ukrainian scholars. They have also organized a fundraiser for the purchase…Continue reading→
New Essay: “Medusa of War – Putin on Ukraine”
Originally published by Democracy Seminar on February 26, 2022 By Irena Grudzińska-Gross Author and professor Irena Grudzińska-Gross reflects on the speech given by Russian President Vladimir Putin announcing the beginning of the attack on Ukraine. She writes, “It was the…Continue reading→
Registration Open Soon – Decades of the Republic in Afghanistan – Free Online Seminar Spring 2022
Hosted on Zoom – Register for link March 15 – May 17, 2022 9:00am-10:30am Eastern Time Afghanistan has been at the epicenter of regional and global politics for nearly half a century. After decades of peace and stability, it experienced…Continue reading→
“FROM KABUL TO CAMPUS: AFGHAN STUDENTS RETRACE THEIR HARROWING JOURNEY TO AMERICA”
Published by News@Northeastern on February 4, 2022 By Peter Jamrug Northeastern is currently hosting Afghan refugees Lala Osmani, Mashal Aziz, Khadija Arian and Sara Sherindil, all of whom first met as finance and accounting majors at the American University in…Continue reading→
New Article: “Manufacturing the AKP in Turkey”
January 31, 2022 Published by the Middle East Research and Information Project on January 25, 2022. By: Utku Balaban, associate professor of anthropology and sociology at Amherst College. He is a MESA Global Academy Fellow for the academic years 2020–2021 and…Continue reading→
“Forced to flee Kabul last August, 15 young Afghan women find an academic home at Brown”
Published by News from Brown on January 27, 2022 By Jill Kimball Brown is hosting a cohort of students from the Asian University for Women and Ghalib University, all of whom left Afghanistan abruptly in the wake of the Taliban’s…Continue reading→