May 2022

05 Apr 2022

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Recorded Book Talk: Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands: Controversies Modern Qur'anic Commentaries

Wednesday, April 6, 2022 (All day) to Tuesday, May 10, 2022 (All day)
Online

In this book talk, Dr. Hadia Mubarak, author of Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands: Controversies in Modern Qur’anic Commentaries explores the impact of modernity on three influential, Sunni Qurʾanic commentaries in the twentieth century and the ways in which colonialism, nationalism, and modernization set into motion new ways of engaging with the subject of women in the Qurʾan.

04 May 2022

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Trauma and Resilience: Mental Health in the Middle East

Wednesday, May 4, 2022 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
online
Sponsored By: 
University of Pennsylvania Middle East Center

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

Join us for a panel discussion on issues of mental health, trauma, and resilience in the Middle East with Devin Atallah, Keren Friedman-Peleg, and Orkideh Behrouzan. Moderated by Behdad Bozorgnia.

Co-sponsored by the Penn Center for Global Health

17 May 2022

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Call For Papers: International Islamophobia Studies Research Association (IISRA) Inaugural Conference: States of Islamophobia (Studies)

Tuesday, May 17, 2022 - 4:45pm
Sponsored By: 
International Islamophobia Studies Research Association (IISRA) Inaugural conference

Abstracts are due by May 31st, 2022
Response to abstracts by June 5th, 2022
Conference dates: July 14-16, 2022

25 May 2022

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The Islamic Movement in Israel

Wednesday, May 25, 2022 - 10:00am to 11:00am
online
Sponsored By: 
The University of California Los Angeles Center for Near Eastern Studies

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh
10-11 am Pacific Time.

The University of California Los Angeles Center for Near Eastern Studies presents a free webinar: The Islamic Movement in Israel. Speaker: Tilde Rosmer. Wednesday,

25 May 2022

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Countering Anti-Muslim Opposition to Mosque and Islamic Center Construction and Expansion

Wednesday, May 25, 2022 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
online
Sponsored By: 
Institute for Social Policy and Understanding

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

Webinar speakers:

• Dr. Elizabeth Yates – Researcher and Report Co-author; Senior Researcher, Anti-Semitism Human Rights First
• Dr. Sultan Chaudhry – President, McLean Islamic Center
• Rachel Brown – Founder and Executive Director, Over Zero
• Dr. Kathleen Foley – Mayor of Cold Spring, NY; Founder and Principal, Mirador Consulting, LLC
• Amy V. Doukoure, ESQ. – Civil Rights Attorney, CAIR MI
• Dalia Mogahed – Director of Research, ISPU

28 May 2022

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A Zoom discussion on the essays from “Black Muslim Portraiture in the Modern Atlantic” The Muslim World Journal - Special Issue

Saturday, May 28, 2022 - 10:00am to 3:00pm
Online
Sponsored By: 
Duke Islamic Studies Center and Howard University

To register, visit here.

These conversations focus on five Black art figures of Muslim heritage: (1) Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (2) Yarrow Mamout, (3) Joseph Cinqué (4) Omar Ibn Sayyid and (5) The Bashi-Bazouk. They offer various interpretations, but this is precisely the reason this conversation is so vital. Then there’s the fact that these images are all of men and Black people, allowing us to question the male bias and racial assumptions in modern visual culture.

30 May 2022

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D.Rad Call for Researchers in Jordan and Middle East

Tuesday, May 31, 2022 (All day)

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

Glasgow Caledonian University leads the EU Horizon funded project, D.Rad: DeRadicalisation in Europe and Beyond: Detect, Resolve, Reintegrate (https://dradproject.com/). The project is delivered in 17 European and non-European sites; Austria, Bosnia, Finland, France, Germany, Georgia Hungary, Italy, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kosovo, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. Prof. Umut Korkut leads the project in Glasgow, UKalong with Principal Investigators in the 16 other countries.