How have African American activism and African anti-imperial movements been inter-connected across time? What global histories are you silencing when you silence African American history? This workshop invites all teachers to consider a new lens to amplify silenced histories.
In February 2016, Ahmed Naji was sentenced to two years in prison for “violating public decency,” after an excerpt of his novel Using Life reportedly caused a reader to experience heart palpitations. Naji ultimately served ten months of that sentence, in a group cellblock in Cairo’s Tora Prison. In this program, we welcome Ahmed to City of Asylum to share his latest work, Rotten Evidence, a memoir which chronicles those ten months.
Univeristy of Pittsburgh World History Center and the Global Studies Center
During the past century, the world has experienced nearly incessant violence and persecution in which religion is a significant factor. Tens of millions of people have been forced to migrate because they are minority populations of states that define belonging by ancestry and faith. Today, hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya refugees fleeing violence in Myanmar are living in Bangladeshi refugee camps. The partitions of Greece and Turkey, India and Pakistan, Israel and Palestine, and Protestant and Catholic Ireland still reverberate through collective memory and geopolitics.
"Feminism and the Fight for Liberation" - Thursday, January 19
This will be the first of three discussions concerning Palestine and will focus on feminism and the struggle for liberation. Stay tuned for updates concerning our spring study group that will dive into the issues we discuss throughout the series.
Other talk themes and dates:
"Organizing and Activism" - Friday, February 9
"Activism and Academic Repression" - Friday, March 1
Nada Elia has a PhD in Comparative Literature from Purdue University, and chaired the Global Studies minor at Antioch University-Seattle, before joining Fairhaven College in 2017, where she now teaches Arab American Studies and the occasional Comparative Cultural Studies.
In Islam, the bonds we forge with one another are not just social ties; they are sacred threads that unite our hearts in the pursuit of spiritual growth. Our faith teaches us that when we come together in brotherhood and sisterhood, we not only strengthen our individual selves but also fortify the fabric of our entire community.
The University of Michigan’s Global Islamic Studies Center, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, and Institute for Research on Women and Gender
In this talk, Dr. Nor Ismah explores the pivotal religious and community roles of Muslim women in Java, Indonesia, who assume positions as ulama (scholars) and religious leaders and issue fatwas, Islamic arbitration decisions. Their fatwas incorporate women's perspectives and traditional and progressive Islamic textual interpretations, earning them religious authority comparable to male ulama. Despite gender constraints in areas involving authority over men, women ulama actively challenge male dominance in Islamic scholarship. Dr.