In a world of massive inequalities between nations, and where citizenship at birth is the biggest determining factor of anyone's life chances, migration and international mobility are often seen as dramatic mechanisms of change. Yet strict borders and hierarchies between nations persist. The recently initiated…

Annette Damayanti Lienau, assistant professor at Harvard University, will give a lecture, "Arabic Across Empires and the Making of Literary Traditions in Asia and Africa," on March 18 at 5pm in White Hall room 106.

Professor Lienau will present from her recently published book "Sacred…

Talk by Ali Houissa and Laurent Ferri (Curators of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection)

Our CMS seminar today will be led by the curator of the Middle Eastern Collection in Olin Library, who will be hosting us to see precious objects in the library's collection…

Talk by Vincent Foucher (Political Science, Sciences Po, Bordeaux)

Public discourse in Nigeria and elsewhere tends to insist on the role of Quranic schools in the formation of the movement generally designated as Boko Haram. Quranic students, poor, radicalized, unfit for the labor market are supposed to be…

Talk by Ghazal Asif (Anthropology, Lahore University of Management Science)

For the past decade, the press in Pakistan has remained rife with stories of the kidnapping, forcible conversion to Islam, and marriages of young Hindu women at the hands of Muslim men. Women’s rights and minority advocacy groups…

Talk by Alan Mikhail (Chace Family Professor of History, Yale University)

At the turn of the seventeenth century, a Dutch privateer is captured by Muslim pirates and taken to Morocco. To win his freedom, he converts to Islam and begins plying the waters off the Atlantic coast for prizes and booty. He marries…