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Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Arizona

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NES Calendar and Events (NES sponsored, co-sponsored or items of interest)


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Friday Nov 13, 3:00 p.m., Marshall Rm 490 Quadriliteral Verbs in Arabic: Morphological Diversity and Phonological Coherence, Samira Farwaneh, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Linguistics and SLAT

NES/CMES Colloquium Series

Thurs, Nov 12, 2009, 6:00 p.m., Harvill Rm 150 MY PRISON, MY HOME- the book: One Woman’s Story of Captivity in Iran. Lecture by author Dr. Haleh EsfandiariPersian Lecture Series
Monday, Nov 9, 2009, 7:00 p.m., Tucson Jewish Community Center The Art of Writing in Ancient Israel, William Schniedewind, UCLA. Co-sponsored by NES with other departments.
Fri, Nov 6, 2009, 3:00 p.m., Marshall Rm 490

Panel: Iran’s June 12th Election and After: Society, Gender, and Technology, M. Kamali, R. Hosseini, S. Keyl

NES/CMES Colloquium Series
Thurs, Nov 5, 4:00 p.m., University Libraries: Special Collections Life and Death on the Estate of a Princess in 21st Century BCE Mesopotamia, David Owen, Cornell University, Co-sponsored by NES with other departments
Thurs, Nov 5, 11-12 p.m., Marshall 490 Foreign Language and Area Study (FLAS) fellowship information session, Undergraduates
Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 1-4 p.m., Student Union 3rd Fl Ballroom Graduate School Fair, Schools recruiting: USC, Columbia, Creighton, Hawaii Pacific, Pepperdine and UC Riverside are just some of the grad schools that will be in attendance representing a wide range of disciplines including medical schools, business schools, Schools of Art and Design and Schools of Earth Science, to name just a few. In addition, several graduate programs from across the UA campus will be there.
Wed, Nov 4, 3-4 p.m., Marshall 490 Foreign Language and Area Study (FLAS) fellowship information session, Graduates
Tuesday, Nov 3, 4:00 p.m. Student Union Tucson Room The Obibi Era: American-Israel Relations in the Age of Obama and Netanyahu, Herb Keinon, Jerusalem Post, sponsored by AZ Center for Judaic Studies, Co-sponsored by NES with other units.
Wed, Oct 29, 2009, 4:00 p.m., Marriott University Park Hotel Archeological Preservation Efforts and Agonies in Northern Iraq, Jesse Ballenger, UA. Co-sponosred by NES with other units
Tues, Oct 28, 2009, 6:30 - 7:45 p.m., ILC 130 Turkey-US: Challenging Relationship in a Difficult Region, Ambassador Ross Wilson, CMES Sponsored Lecture  
Tuesday Oct 27, 2009, 1:30-3:30, Marshall 490 Study Abroad in the Middle East, Undergraduate Information Session
Monday Oct 26, 2009, 1-2:00 p.m., Marshall Rm 490
التاريخ الشفوي الفلسطيني كطريقة تدريس في مخيمات اللاجئين الفلسطينيين في الأردن Palestine Oral History as a Teaching Method in the Palestine Refugee Camps in Jordan, Mohammad Naser, PhD Candidate
NES Arabic Lecture Series
Friday, Oct 23, 3:00 p.m., Marshall Bldg Rm 490 Noise and Signal: Sex, Lies and Middle East Policy, Leila Hudson, Departments of Near Eastern Studies, Anthropology and History

NES/CMES Colloquium Series

Thursday, Oct 22, 4:00 p.m., CMES Library- Marshall Rm 476 Egyptian movie showing, She Made me a Criminal

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Mon, Oct 19, 3:00 p.m., Marriott University Park Hotel

Speaker Panel: From Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Arizona: The First Writing, Indiana Jones and the ASM Basement's Mystery.. Co-sponsored by NES with other departments.

Friday October 16, 3:00 p.m., Marshall Bldg Rm 490 The Moral Values of Pre-Islamic Arabia, Professor Adel Gamal, Departments of Near Eastern Studies & Africana Studies

NES/CMES Colloquium Series

Friday, October 9, 3:00 p.m., Marshall Bldg Rm 490 Credit and Hidden Interest in the Ancient Near East and Classic Mediterranean, Thomas Park, Departments of Anthropology and Near Eastern Studies

NES/CMES Colloquium Series

Wednesday Oct 7, UA Bookstore Angeleno Days: An Arab American Writer on Family, Place, and Politics, Book signing by Gregory Orfalea  
Friday Oct 2, 3:00 p.m., Marshall Bldg Rm 490 Justice and the Problem of Ottoman Decline, Linda Darling, Departments of History & Near Eastern Studies

NES/CMES Colloquium Series

Friday, Oct 2, 11:30 - 2:30, Student Union Career Services, Ste 411 Mock Interview Event, sign ups begin Sept 1, for the Fall Mock Interviewing Event on Friday, October 2, 2009. Please note that mock interview appointments are available all year round by scheduling a career counseling appointment (call 520.621.2588).
Friday, Oct 2, 2009, 12:00 p.m., Soc. Sci. Bldg Rm 416 The Marginal as Central: Arabic Literary Journals in Israel and the Development of a Palestinian Public Sphere, Dr. Maha Nassar, Assistant Professor, NES. Part of Sociology Brown bag Series
Thurs, Oct 1, 2009, 3:00 p.m., Marriott University Park Hotel Ancient Mesopotamian Cuneiform Tablet Archives, Scribes and the Development of Libraries, Anne Kilmer, UC Berkeley
Wednesday, Sept 30, 4-5 p.m., Student Union San Pedro Room Study Abroad in the Middle East-Information Session
Monday, Sept 28, 12:00 p.m., Marshall Rm 490

الحركات الاسلامية بين مطرقة الحكومات العربية وسندان الغرب: جذورها, أهدافها, ومشروعها الاجتماعي
Dr. Aomar Boum, Monday
September 28, 12:00 P.M.

Arabic Lecture Series

Friday, Sept 25, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Marriott University Park, RSVP Sept 21 Writing for the Media: Helping the Public Understand the Middle East and Islamic World, Workshop sponsored by CMES/UA School of Journalism, lunch sponsored by NES.
Thurs, Sept 24, 3:00 p.m., Marshall Rm 490 Ta'ziyeh and the Dynamics of Social Protest in Iran, William O. Beeman Professor and Chair, Dept of Anthropology, U. of Minnesota, sponsored by CMES, co-sponsored by NES/Persian Lecture Series
Wed, Sept 23, 2009, 4:00 p.m. Why we Refuse Human Rights, Israeli Jewish Youth and the Military, Maya Wind and Netta Mishly, School of Anthropology Lecture Series
Wednesday, Sept 23, 4-5 p.m., Student Union Presidio Room Study Abroad in Africa- Information Session
Friday Sept 18, 3:00 p.m., Marshall Rm 490 The Place of Islam in Interwar Iranian Nationalist Historiography, Farzin Vejdani, Assistant Professor, UA History Department

NES/CMES Colloquium Series

Wednesday Sept 9, 4:00 p.m., Douglass 102 Workshop for Graduate Students applying for the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Award
Tuesday, Sept 8, Douglass 102 WORKSHOPS FOR GRAD STUDENTS
1:00 p.m., applying for the Javits Fellowship
2:00 p.m., applying for NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Friday, September 4, 2009, 3:00 p.m. Marshall Rm 490

The Anwa' Fetish and the Islamic Purification of Ancient Arabian Folk Astronomy, Ben Adams, Ph.D. Candidate Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Anthropology. Title

NES Colloquium Series

Thursday, September 3, 4:00 p.m., Marshall 440 Middle East and North African (MENA) Graduate Group, first meeting of the semester
Wednesday, Sept 2, 7:00 p.m. ILC 130 West Beirut, CMES Fall Film Series
Tuesday, Sept 1 2009, 7.30pm Sonoran Ballroom, Westward Look Resort, Tucson, AZ Israeli and Palestinian Water Management and Policy: Challenges Facing Water Managers and Potential Solutions, AzIP Arizona-Israeli-Palestinian Water Management & Policy Workshop Community Program. (Sponsored in part by CMES, Water Resources Research Center, Az Ctr for Judaic Studies, and others. SEE FLIER FOR FULL LIST)

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Friday, August 21, 2009 8-12:00, CCIT Rm 311 NES Teaching and Technology Training (ALL NES TA's)
Thursday, August 20, 2009 GATO: Graduate Assistant Teaching Orientation
Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 2:00 p.m., Marshall Rm 479 NES New Graduate Student Orientation
Tuesday, August 18, 2009, 8:00 a.m..- 12:00 p.m., Marshall Rm 490 NES Teaching Assistant Training (ALL NES TA's)
Tuesday, August 18, 2009, 2-3:30, Marshall Rm 490 NES/SBS Security Awareness Workshop, ALL NES Graduate Students
Tuesday June 16, 9:00 a.m., Marshall Rm 476 Dissertation Defense, Jeremy Palmer
Friday, May 29, 2009, 11:00 a.m. Marshall Bldg Rm 490 Historicizing Muslim Exceptionalism: Islamic Modernism versus Fundamentalism, Dr. Mansour Moaddel Professor, Eastern Michigan University

Persian Lecture Series

Friday, May 15, 2009, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m., Marshall Bldg Rm 440 Graduation Celebration for Near Eastern Studies graduating students!
NES Spring 2009 Colloquium Series Flier (8.5x14 inch)
Thurs, Apr 30, 2:00 p.m., Marshall Rm 490 Virtual Jews: Reviving Community Memories among Moroccan Jews in Cyberspace, Dr. Aomar Boum, Depts of NES and Religious Studies
NES Colloquium
Thurs, Apr 23, 2:00 p.m., Marshall Rm 490

Iraqi Refugees in Jordan: A Silence Broken, Professor Sama Alshaibi, Assistant Professor, School of Art
NES Colloquium

Tues, April 21, 4:00 p.m., Marshall Rm 451 Social and Networking Event (food provided), NES Undergraduate Organization
Mon, Apr 20, 2009, 7 p.m. AME Auditorium Kashmir, the Afghan War and Pakistan's Descent, Lecture by Professor Dick Eaton, History Dept.
Thursday, April 16, 2:00 p.m., Marshall Rm 490

Islam and the French Republic: The Affair of the Muslim Headscarf in Francophone Literature, Dr. Carine Bourget, Assistant Professor, French and Italian & Near Eastern Studies
NES Colloquium

Thurs, Apr 9, 2009 2:00 p.m., Marshall Rm 490 World War I and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: 'Scholarly Research' and Its Pitfalls, Dr. Charles Smith, Depts of NES and History
NES Colloquium
Wed - Saturday, April 8-11, 2009, Univ. of AZ New Directions in Critical Theory, Graduate Student Conference- call for papers. (co-sponsored by NES)

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Wed, April 8, 2009, 12-1:30 p.m., Student Union Ventana Rm Pizza with a Professional- Internationally Focused Careers and Opportunities

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Mon, Apr 6, 3-4 p.m., FCS Rm 202 Jewish-Christian-Muslim Dialogue:  Challenges and Opportunities; A Panel Discussion with Religious Studies Program director Robert Burns and Near Eastern Studies faculty Aomar Boum and Scott Lucas.
Sat, Apr 4, 10-1 p.m. on the UA Campus Southern Arizona Language Fair, featuring Arabic and Persian ILC 130, and Turkish ILC 140
Friday, Apr 3, 1:50 - 2:35 p.m., Drachman A122 The Impact of War and Occupation on Health and Human Rights in the West Bank and Gaza, Social Justice Symposium, Path: Awareness; Rula Khalidi, RN, BSN, MS
Thurs, Apr 2, 2:00 p.m., Marshall Rm 490 Al-Hakim al-Naysaburi and the Companions of the Prophet: An Original Sunni Voice in the Shi'i Century, Dr. Scott Lucas, Depts of NES and Religious Studies
NES Colloquium
Thurs, Mar 26, 5:15 p.m., Chemistry Rm 134 Media Capitalism: Colloquial Mass Culture and Nationalism in Egypt, 1904-1919, Dr. Ziad Fahmy, Cornell University Asst Prof., Keynote Speaker, 9th Annual SW Graduate Conference in Middle East Studies
Wed to Fri March 25 to 27, 2009, Marshall Bldg 9th Annual SW Graduate Conference in Middle Eastern Studies, MENA (NES) Graduate Student Organization
Thurs, Mar 12, 2:00 p.m., Marshall Rm 490 The Abolition of the Caliphate and Debates about Islamic Governance in the Early Turkish Republic, Dr. Brian Silverstein, Depts of Anthropology and NES
NES Colloquium
Wed, Mar 11, 12-2 p.m., Soc Sci Rm 415 Methods of Social Research: Collecting and Analyzing Qualitative Data, 'Process Tracing', David Gibbs, Assoc Prof, History
Thurs, Mar 5, 2:00 p.m., Marshall Rm 490 Architecture and Power in the 16th c. Deccan: an Historical Typology, Dr. Richard Eaton, Depts of History and NES
NES Colloquium

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September 2, 2008, 4:00 p.m., Student Union 4th Fl, 'Copper Room' Persian Club (Iranian American Student Association) First meeting of the semester!
September 3, 2008, 5:00 p.m. Location TBA Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Graduate Student Organization Meeting and Election of Officers
September 3, 2008, 5:30 p.m., NES Commons Area, Marshall Rm 440 Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Graduate Student Organization Meeting and Election of Officers
September 3, 2008, 7:00 p.m., ILC 140 Iranian Film, "Our Times" with English subtitles. CMES Sponsored
September 9, 2008, Tuesday, 5:00 p.m., Marshall Rm 440 MENA Planning, Spring 2009 Conference. All welcome.
Monday Sept 29, 2008, 5:00 p.m. Marshal Rm 490, Colloquium: Solid Disagreement: The Contested Space of Lebanon's World War I Martyrs' Statues, Ziad Abi Chakra, Ph.D. Candidate, History Department
October 6, Monday, 7:00 p.m., AME Auditorium Do Borders Make Peace: Palestine, Israel, and the Struggle for a Just Peace, Ali Abunimah, sponsored by Voices of Opposition
October 7, 2008, Tuesday, 4:00 p.m., Marshall Bldg Rm 490 Conspiracy or Mismanagement?  Kissinger's Diplomacy and the 1974 Crisis in Cyprus, Jan Asmussen, sponsored by CMES
October 8, 2008, Wed, 6:40 p.m., Mrshl Rm 490 UA Transformation Discussion with Department Head Michael Bonine
October 9, 2008, Thursday, 3:30-5:30 p.m., SSci Rm 415 Methods of Social Research: Collecting and Analyzing Qualitative Data, “Semi-Structured and Unstructured Interviewing” sponsored by UA Geography and Sociology Dept's and the Graduate and Professional Student Council
October 10-11, 2008, Friday and Saturday, Marriott Hotel Intercultural Competence Conference, Developing and Assessing Intercultural Competence, for K-16 educators, sponsored by SLAT, CMES, CERCLL and CLAS
October 16, 2008, Thursday, 12-1:00 p.m., Marshall Rm 490. RSVP Deadline Oct 14 Ahmed Rehab, Executive Director of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR- Chicago). Discussion re: experiences defending Muslim-American civil rights. RSVP Email Required
October 16, 2008, Thurs, 3-4:00 p.m., Holsclaw Hall, School of Music Ahmed Rehab, Dialogue Shatters the Myth that Silence Creates: Stereotypes and the Muslim-American Community
October 20, 2008, Monday, 5:00 p.m., Marshall Bldg Rm 490

Lecture: Spokesman of the Shariah: Working as a Mufti in Egypt Today, Jonathan Brown, Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Washington, NES co-sponsoring with CMES

October 24, 2008, Friday, 4:00 p.m., UA Bookstore Richard H. Wilkinson, Author and Professor, Egyptian Scarabs, Book signing.

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November 3, 2008, Monday, 7-9:00 p.m., AME S202

US Foreign Policy and Political Economy in the Face of Elections, panel with NES Professors Leila Hudson and Charles Smith, sponsored by the student club, 'Voices of Opposition'

November 5, 2008, Wednesday, ILC Rm 130 Elections in the Middle East, Fall Film Series sponsored by CMES
Nov 6, Thursday, 2008, 7-10 p.m., Az Historical Society Museum, 949 E. 2nd St, Corner Park/ 2nd 4th Annual Middle Eastern Shindig! Food, music, dance! Sponsored by the NES Undergrad Organization
Friday Nov 14, 2008, 3:30-4:30, Student Union Rm 411 (above the bookstore) Department of State Information Session, International Affairs Graduate Fellowships, Undergraduate Summer Enrichment Program

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Phone: (202) 806-6493

November 17,2008, Monday, 3-4:30 p.m., Marshall Bldg Rm 490 Meir Shalev, author of 'A Pigeon and a Boy', discussion sponsored by JUS, CMES, the UA Poetry Center, Dept of English and Hillel
Monday Nov 17, 2008, 1:30-3:30, Marshall Rm 490 FLAS Information Session, Awards are offered to graduate students for both the academic year at UA and approved programs of intensive summer language study (Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Turkish) either in the US or the Middle East/North Africa. Academic year and summer fellowships provide full tuition and a stipend. SPONSORED BY CMES
Monday Nov 17, 5:30 p.m. MENA Meeting
Tuesday, Nov 18, 2008, 7:00 p.m., Soc Sci Rm 100 The Middle East & the 2008 U.S. Presidential Elections, sponsored by CMES
Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008, 1.30-3.00pm, Marshall 490 Study Abroad in the Middle East information session, opportunities for undergraduates studying the Middle East & North Africa, Sponsored by CMES
Wed Nov 19, 3-4 p.m., Student Union Ventana Room Study Abroad Turkey and Greece, UA Study Abroad information session, Contact Dr. Bella Vivante for more information, bvivante@email.arizona.edu
Mon Dec 1, 2008, 5:00 p.m., Marshall Rm 490 Afghan Women in Western Media, Shahira Fahmy, Assoc Prof Journalism and NES
Thurs, Jan 15, 2009, 2:00 p.m., Marshall Rm 490 Poetic Voice En/Gendered: Mihri Hatun’s Resistance to 'Femininity', Didem Havlioglu, Turkish Studies Faculty Candidate
Thurs, Jan 22 2:00 p.m., Marshall Rm 490

Performing the Nation: Discourses of Sahrawi Identity in Exile, Tara Deubel, PhD candidate, NES Colloquium Series

Thurs, Jan 22, 3 p.m., Marshall 451 MENA Graduate Meeting
Fri, Jan 23, 2009, 9:00 am - 5:30 p.m., Marriott University Park Hotel New Horizons: Obama and the Global Media, Panel Discussions, Sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Department of Journalism

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Sat, Jan 24, 2009, 1-4 p.m., Kiva Auditorium, Educ 211 Symposium on War and Social Sciences, Panelists include NES Professor, Dr. Leila Hudson, sponsored by Anthropology Dept and AGUA (Anth Grads UA)
Wednesday, Jan 28, 4:00 p.m., Marshall Rm 490 Nation and Narration in the Bible: Feminist Re‐readings of Jephthah's Daughter, Dr. Esther Fuchs, Professor NES/JUS
NES Colloquium
Thurs, Jan 29, 2:00 p.m., Marshall Rm 490 Why Hasn’t Spain Banned the Veil, Too? Articulating Modes of Womanhood
In Spanish Public Discourse
, Maisa Taha, Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology
NES Colloquium
Wednesday, Jan 28, 4:00 p.m., Marshall Rm 490 Nation and Narration in the Bible: Feminist Re‐readings of Jephthah's Daughter, Dr. Esther Fuchs, Professor NES/JUS
NES Colloquium
Thurs, Jan 29, 2:00 p.m., Marshall Rm 490 Why Hasn’t Spain Banned the Veil, Too? Articulating Modes of Womanhood
In Spanish Public Discourse
, Maisa Taha, Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology
NES Colloquium
Thurs, Feb 5, 2:00 p.m., Marshall Rm 490 Pressing for Return: Palestinian Citizens of Israel, al-Ittihad, and the Refugee Issue, 1948-59, Dr. Maha Nassar, Ph.D. Asst Prof, NES
NES Colloquium
Monday Feb 9, 4-5:00 p.m. in the Honors College, Slonaker House, 1027 E 2nd
UNDERGRADUATE
Information on Scholarship Preparation, Fulbright, Rhodes, Marshall/Gates Cambridge/Goldwater, etc. RSVP

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Feb 11, 12:00-2, Social Sciences Rm 415 Collecting and Analyzing Qualitative Data, "Michael Burawoy's 'Extended' Case Method", sponsored by Geography, GPSC & the Sociology Depts
Thurs, Feb. 12, 2:00 p.m., Marshall Bldg Rm 490 The Orphaned Ottoman: Fatherlessness, Love, and Narcissism in the Tanzimat Novel, Burcu Karahan, Turkish Studies Faculty Candidate
NES Colloquium
Thurs, Feb 19, 2:00 p.m., Marshall Rm 490 Mapping Turkish Identity: Tracing Conversion and Family Histories to the 1923 Greek-Turkish Population Exchange, Dr. Asli Iğsiz, Simon Fraser University
Turkish Studies Faculty Candidate

NES Colloquium
Fri, Feb 19, 5:30 p.m., Center for Creative Photography Slaves, Women, and Other Aristocrats: Patronage and the Hybrid Elite in Umayyad al-Andalus, Glaire Anderson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, co-sponsored by NES  
Fri, Feb 20, 12:00, Marshall Bldg Rm 490 Majorities and Minorities in Israel and the Complexities in the Middle East, Zeidan Atashi, (sponsored by JUS and NES)
Deadline Feb 15, for abstracts Call for Papers: 24th Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference, University of Chicago, May 8-10, 2009
Deadline February 18
$300-$500
Travel Grants for Women Graduate Students, sponsored by the Assoc of Women Faculty (AWF), must be a member ($10/year for students) to apply.

Mon, Feb 23, 7:00 p.m.

AME Auditorium, Mountain and Speedway Blvd.

ANALYZING GAZA Film: Video clips of interviews in 2009 with Ali Abunimah, Norman Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky, and Jimmy Carter will be followed by discussion and analysis of the importance of the conflict in the Middle East. The reasons for the recent invasion of Gaza, the damages, the future of Gaza, and possible solutions will be reviewed.
Thurs, Feb 26, 2:00 p.m., Marshall Rm 490 Ottoman Muslim Families and Reform of the Private Domain in the Late Ottoman Empire, Dr. Tuba Demirci
Turkish Studies Faculty Candidate
NES Colloquium
Thurs, Feb 26, 7:00 p.m., Arizona Historical Society, 949 E 2nd St. Rise of the Arab and Muslim Community in Detroit, Andrew Shryock, Sabbagh Lecture
     
 
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