Events and Meetings

Spring 2012

Regular Meetings
Open to all faculty, Visiting Lecturers, students and Staff

Thursday, January 26 @ 3:30pm-4:30pm, Room, Maxwell Library, CIE, A300
Thursday, February 16 @ 3:30pm-4:30pm, Room Maxwell Library, CIE, A300
Thursday, March 29 @ 3:30pm-4:30pm, Room Maxwell Library, CIE, A300
Thursday, April 26 @ 3:30pm-5:00pm, Room Maxwell Library, CIE, A300

June 4-5, 2012 Conference
Women and Gender in the Middle East:  Recognition, Reflection, and Realignment
Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, USA.

To register for the conference, follow this link to the website at:

https://secure.touchnet.com/C20026_ustores/web/store_main.jsp?STOREID=19&SINGLESTORE=true

 

Spring 2012

Middle East Educational Weeks

 The Center for Middle East Studies will present the 3rd Middle East Educational Weeks from March 27-April 12, 2012.

March 27/2012-April 12/2012Tuesday, March 27, 2012

12:30pm-2:00pm, Moakley Auditorium
Ambassador Maen Rashid Areikat, Chief PLO Representative to the US in Washington D.C.          

Lecture: Palestinian-Israeli Peace Political Process: The Current Situation on the Ground and the Future.

Cosponsored by the Center for Middle East Studies, the Division of External Affairs, and Global Studies, BSU.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012
1:50pm-3:00pm, the Burnell Cafeteria, East Campus           
Dr. Asmat M. Khalid, President, University of Duhok, Kurdistan, Iraq
Lecture: Kurdistan Regional Government: Politics and the National Development and Education in Kurdistan.

Thursday, April 5, 2012

11:00am-12:15pm, Maxwell Heritage Room

Dr. Asmat M. Khalid, President, University of Duhok, Kurdistan, Iraq

Lecture: Iranian and Turkish Influence in Iraq: Conflict, or Cooperation?

Monday, April 9, 2012

12:20pm-1:50pm, Dunn Suite B, East Campus        
Dr. Yahya R. Kamalipour, Professor & Head, Department of Communication & Creative Arts, and Director of the Center for Global Studies, Purdue University

Lecture:Internet and Social Media: Empowering People.
Moderator:  Dr. Bjorn Ingvoldstad, Communication Studies Department
Cosponsored by the Center for Middle East Studies and Communication Studies Department, BSU.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012
* 9:30am-11:30am, the Burnell Cafeteria, East Campus

Dr. Vernon Domingo & Dr. James Hayes-Bohanan, Geography Department, BSU         
Presentation: Teaching Geography of the Middle East and Beyond for Middle and High School Students.
Cosponsored by the Center for Middle East Studies, the Office of University and Community Partnerships & the Geography Department.          

*12:30pm-1:45pm, RCC 208 (The Demo Room)
Panel Discussion:
Oil, Honey, and Arms: Searching for a Middle Ground in the Middle East
Panelists:
Professor Shahram Shadbash, Suffolk
University
Professor Yoav Mehozay, Northeastern University: Tahrir is Here? The Arab

Spring Influence and Vision on Israel and on Constitution Making in Non-Secular Societies.
Dr. Shakir Almakzomy, Former Member of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq: Democracy in a Corrupt Environment.

Moderator: Dr. Tahir Al-Bakaa, Visiting Professor, BSU and Suffolk
University, Former Minster of Higher Education, Iraq

* 3:30pm-5:00pm
Arabic Musical Instruments Workshop, RCC119 (Green Room), Campus Center

By Karim Nagi (Mr. Nagi is a native Egyptian percussionist, DJ, folk dancer and creator of Turbo Tabla)

* 8:00pm-10:00pm
Arabic Music Concert. Horace Mann Auditorium
ARABIZED by Karim Nagi.

ARABIZED is a mash of civilizations. This intense solo stage performance features Arab music, folk dance, and oration. Karim Nagi re-imagines the Middle East tradition, performing acrobatic Sufi drumming, Saidi cane dances, and soulful buzuq taqasim, all within a greater story and narrative about identity and diaspora. 
Cosponsored by the Center for Middle East Studies and Music Department.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012,

12:20pm-1:35pm, Burnell Cafeteria, East Campus
Presentation: Coffee from Yemen: Test and Culture
Dr. James Hayes-Bohanan, Geography Department, Bridgewater, BSU.

Cosponsored by the Center for Middle East Studies and the Geography Department.          

Thursday, April 12, 2012,
11:30am-1:00pm, Council Chambers (Room 201, Campus Center)
3rd Annual Passover Celebration
Cosponsored by the Center for Middle East Studies, the Center for Multicultural Affairs, and the U.S. Ethnic Studies Program, BSU.

Enjoy and thank you for your kind support.

              

FALL 2011

Regular Meetings
Open to all faculty, Visiting Lecturers

Monday, September 19 @ 3:00pm-4:30pm, Room, Maxwell Library, CIE, A300

Monday, October 31 @ 3:00pm-4:30pm, Room Maxwell Library, CIE, A300

Monday, November 28 @ 3:00pm-4:30pm, Room Maxwell Library, CIE, A300

Confirmed Events

-Tuesdays/Every Tuesday: Lunch and Language, Dr. Jabbar Al-Obaidi @12:00-1:00pm, cosponsored by CMA, in RCC room 212 all semester with the exception of November 15^th where you will be in RCC 209. 

  esalamu elyakum            Dr. Jabbar AL-Obaidi

- Monday, September 12, 2011@ 6:00pm Eid al-Futer (the Festival of Fast-Breaking/End of Ramadan). Dunn Suite, A and B, East Campus.


-Thursday, September 22, 2011
Lecture: current issues in Israel and the Middle East by

Mr. Shai Bazak Consul General  of Israel to New England @ 12:30pm in Dunn Conference Suite, East Campus. Read More.


-Monday, September 26, 2011 Lecture: Libya, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democratic Uprising by Professor Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, Chair, Department of Political Science, and Ludcke Chair of Liberal Arts and Sciences University, @1:50pm in RCC Small Ballroom.
Professor Ali Abdullatif Ahmida. Read More.
 

-Tuesday, October 11, Breakfast @9:15-10:15am. We will have two guests from Jordan and celebration of the establishment of the Center for Middle East Studies (CMES), at 2:30-1:30pm in Maxwell Library Heritage Room.

-Monday, November 7, 2011, Small Ballroom, Campus Center: Presentation: Why We Need to Know About the World: The Geography Bill in the Massachusetts Legislature.
Presenters: Professors James Hayes-Bohanan and Vernon Domingo, Department of Geography.
Moderator: Dr. Madhu Rao, Department of Geography.

Dr. Madhu          Dr. Domingo   Dr. Hayes-Bohanan

-Tuesday, November 15, 2011, Dunn Conference Room , Suite B at 2:00pm: Lecture by:

Dr. Teresa King, Department of Psychology:
Middle East Meets West: A Cross-National Examination of Body Image and Media Exposure in Jordanian Women.

-World Café, Wednesday, November 16, 2011, Park Ave, Campus Center at 3:30pm, in collaboration with International Student Services.

-Thursday, November 17, 2011, International Education Week: Film Screening: BUDRUS, A Just Vision Film.  Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 12:30pm, Maxwell Heritage Room. Watch official Trailer.
 

To Be Confirmed:
-Thursday, November 15: Lecture: Ambassador of Sultanate Oman to the United States@ 12:30pm, room TBD.
-Fred Zakaria, CNN. TBD.

Stay tuned--More to come in spring 2012.

 

 

 

Last Modified: April 24, 2012