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

Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish, Assistant Professor of History, recently contributed to a roundtable, “Teaching the Introductory Middle East History Survey Course,” in the journal Review of Middle East Studies (published by Cambridge University Press). The roundtable featured contributions from seven historians, most of whom had significant teaching and publishing experience. Abu-Rish’s contribution […]

The Middlle East & North Africa Studies 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 recently-approved undergradaute certificate in Middle East […]

The Ohio University community is invited to attend screenings of the 2017-18 “Travel Ban” Film Series. The events will include feature and documentary films from each of the six countries that the Trump Administration’s “travel ban” targets: Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen. At each event, a faculty member will introduce […]

  The Ohio University community is invited to a screening of Men in the Arena, as part of the 2017-18 “Travel Ban” Countries Film Series, at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 13, in Seigfred 401. The event features introductory comments by Dr. Steve Howard, who will also moderate a brief […]

The Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (LCPS) interviewed Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish, Assistant Professor of History at Ohio University, about “Sectarianism in Lebanon.” Drawing on his current book project on Lebanon during the 1940s and ’50s, Abu-Rish outlines a complex picture of the emergence and transformation of sectarianism in Lebanon across the modern era. […]

Dr. Atalia Omer speaks on Thursday, April 6, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in Bentley 306 on “Intersectional Social Justice Activism: Jewish-American Palestine Solidarity and the Transformation of American Judaism.” There will be an drop-in in the Center for Law, Justice and Culture lounge from 3 to 4 p.m. on Thursday, April 6. This […]