Post Tagged with: "Middle East and North Africa"

Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish, Assistant Professor of History, was recently quoted in an Al-Ahram Weekly article on the murder of Jordanian writer and activist Nahed Hattar. Hattar was facing criminal charges for “insulting religion” and “sowing sectarian strife” in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan after sharing a cartoon that depicted an […]

Middle East and North Africa (MENA) studies faculty from across the state will gather for the Ohio Symposium on Middle East Studies on April 9, with Ohio University faculty well-represented. The symposium is co-convened by Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish, Assistant Professor of History at Ohio University, and Dr. Ellen Fleischmann of the University of […]

The 2016 Baker Peace Conference at Ohio University “History, War, and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East” is March 24 & 25. The conference focuses on the Middle East, from World War I to the present time. These events are free and open to the public. Keynote Address Thursday March […]

The 2016 Baker Peace Conference begins with a keynote address by Dr. Rashid Khalidi titled “The Persistence of the Sykes-Picot Frontiers in the Middle East” on Thursday March 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the Nelson Commons. The theme of the 2016 conference, held March 24 and 25 at Ohio University, […]

An inter-disciplinary panel of five Ohio University faculty members share their thoughts and insights on the current context and conditions of Syrian refugees and the regional and international responses thus far. The panel is Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015, at 6 p.m. in Grover Center W125. In recent weeks, U.S. and international media attention has […]

The Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (LCPS) interviewed Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish, Assistant Professor of History at Ohio University, about the role of “the state, or lack thereof,” in the contemporary history of Lebanon—looking back to the first 15 years after independence from France in 1943, a period that predates the country’s […]

As more university researchers focus on Middle East Studies, two professors are planning a symposium for fellow professors in the state of Ohio and putting out a call for papers. Over the past several years, numerous universities, colleges, and community colleges across the state of Ohio have hired new faculty […]