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Andrii Kostyriev, NUIEC Scholar Lecture Series
Country of Origin: UkraineLocation: Lithuania “Social Media Age: The Rise or Decay of Democracy” The rapid expansion of social media has fundamentally transformed the architecture of political communication. Rather than functioning as channels of mass communication, digital platforms create personalized…Continue reading→
Juan Carlos Rosillo-Villena, NUIEC Scholar Lecture Series
Country of Origin: Venezuela Formerly hosted by Coloumbia Global Center, Santiago. “Political Discourse, Democracy and Institutional Change in Latin America: Insights from the Progressive Experience” Latin America has experienced profound political transformations during the twenty-first century. This lecture explores how…Continue reading→
Muhammed Muharram, NUIEC Scholar Lecture Series
Country of Origin: YemenLocation: Germany “Water as Archive: Re-imagining Exile, Memory, and Identity through the Blue Humanities from Yemen to the World” This talk approaches water not merely as geography, but as a living archive — a medium that holds…Continue reading→
Mawahib Hassan, NUIEC Scholar Lecture Series
Country of Origin: SudanFormerly hosted by Columbia Global Center, Amman. “The Importance of Social Networks in the Survival and Adaptation of Displaced Sudanese in Turkey” This lecture presents findings from an ongoing research project examining the importance of social and…Continue reading→
Homeira Qaderi, NUIEC Scholar Lecture Series
Country of Origin: AfghanistanLocation: US “Writing as Resistance: Women’s Fiction and the Struggle for Voice in Contemporary Afghanistan” This talk explores how contemporary Afghan women writers use fiction not only as a literary medium, but also as a vehicle for…Continue reading→
Abdulqawi Hazaea, NUIEC Scholar Lecture Series
Country of Origin: YemenFormerly hosted by Columbia Global Center, Amman. “From Silence to Defiance: Yemeni Women’s Resilience, Resistance, and Peacebuilding in a Decade of War” This presentation examines the representation of Yemeni women’s resilience, resistance, and peacebuilding in contemporary literature…Continue reading→
Masoud Noori, NUIEC Scholar Lecture Series
Country of Origin: IranIndependent Scholar. “From Rule of Law to Rule by Law: How Law Becomes an Instrument of Power” This lecture explores how legal systems can be transformed from mechanisms that constrain public power into instruments for exercising and…Continue reading→
Omar Sadr, NUIEC Scholar Lecture Series
Country of Origin: AfghanistanLocation: Sweden “The Politics of Poor’s Resistance Against the Taliban Totalitarian Regime” This chapter explores the dynamics of the poor’s civil resistance within the constrained political landscape of Afghanistan’s religious, totalitarian regime. It argues that the poor…Continue reading→
Abdul Momin Mansoor, NUIEC Scholar Lecture Series
Country of Origin: AfghanistanLocation: US “Resilience as a Framework for the 21st Century: Governance, Energy, and Public Policy” Drawing on my public-sector leadership and institutional reform experience in Afghanistan, alongside my current research at the University of North Dakota, this…Continue reading→
Mansour Ali Mohammad Al-Maswari, NUIEC Scholar Lecture Series
Country of Origin: YemenLocation: Canada “The Risk of Renewed Escalation Between the Yemen’s Houthis and Saudi Arabia” The Middle East is entering a new phase of geopolitical uncertainty as regional conflicts become increasingly interconnected. This talk examines the growing risk…Continue reading→