Post Tagged with: "Middle East and North Africa Studies"

This fall Ohio University hosts the Global Solidarities Lecture Series—four lectures that highlight various social justice struggles, with emphasis on how activists working in and scholars writing about a particular context learn from and teach those from another context. All events are free and open to the public. The Global […]

The Global Solidarities Lecture Series presents a public lecture by Ryan Thoreson titled “LGBT Human Rights” on Wednesday, Oct. 10, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in Scripps 111. Thoreson is a Clinical Lecturer in Law, Associate Research Scholar in Law, and Robert M. Cover-Allard K. Lowenstein Fellow in International Human Rights at […]

Members of the Ohio University and broader Athens community are invited to a free screening eight short Syrian films (90 minutes) at the Athena Cinema at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 23. All the films screened were created by Syrian filmmarkers who experienced the crisis in Syria that began in […]

The Global Solidarities Lecture Series presents a public lecture by Dr. Leila Harris title “Narrating, Implementing, and Resisting the Human Right to Water” on Thursday, Oct. 25, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in Scripps 111. Harris is an Associate Professor at the Institute on Resources Environment and Sustainability and in the […]

The College of Arts & Sciences Awards Committee selected Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish, Assistant Professor of History, as the humanities recipient of the Jeanette G. Grasselli Brown Faculty Teaching Award for 2017-18. The award was announced during the 2018 Fall Gala of the College of Arts & Science. The award recognizes “superior […]

The Ohio University Class of 2018 featured the first students graduating with a Middle East and North Africa Studies Certificate. Approved in Spring 2017, the certificate program provides undergraduate students from across campus with a focused interdisciplinary combination of courses on the history and contemporary politics of the region. In […]

The Middle East & North Africa Studies Certificate program seeks to provide the Ohio University and Athens communities with an interdisciplinary understanding of the history and contemporary dynamics of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. While the bulk of its efforts are focused on the undergraduate certificate in Middle East […]