Post Tagged with: "Ziad Abu-Rish"

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 Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (LCPS) interviewed Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish, Assistant Professor of History at Ohio University, about “Electricity in Early Independence Lebanon.“ Drawing on his current book project and using source material such as newspaper articles and development reports from the 1940s and ’50s, Abu-Rish draws a picture of political, […]

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 […]

The Middle East and North Africa Film Series presents The Blue Wave (Mavi Dalga) on Monday, April 13, at 6:30 p.m. in Baker Center 231. This film (directed by Zeynep Dadak and Merve Kayan) is a feminist perspective on the story of adolescence in a small Turkish city told through the […]

The Middle East and North Africa Film Series presents Taxi to the Dark Side on Monday, March 30, at 6:30 p.m. in Baker Center 231. This documentary (directed by Alex Gibney) takes off from an investigation into the killing of an Afghani taxi driver at the hands of U.S. interrogators. The investigation, […]