Excavating the Internet:
New sources for the History of Ancient Sumer
Professor David Owen, Cornell University
Monday, September 3, 12:10-1:10pm
410 White Hall (NES lounge)
**Part of the NES Colloquium Series
**Required reading will be available in 412 White (NES mail/copy room). For a electronic copy, please email Katie Baillo at kgb28@cornell.edu**
Peace in the Middle East: Who Needs it?
Dr. Hanan Ashrawi, Founder and Executive Committee Chair of the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue & Democracy
Thursday, September 20, 4:30pm
Bailey Hall, Cornell University
Moderated by President David Skorton
**Free and open to the public
Simon Shaheen and Qantara Music Ensemble
Sunday, September 23, 8:00pm
Bailey Hall, Cornell University
Features traditional and contemporary Arabic fusion music. Sponsored, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts. Admission: $10 adults; $5 students. Available at http://www.baileytickets.com, in person at the Ticket Center at Clinton House, and at the door.
Peter Cole- Reading from his new book, The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492
Peter Cole
Monday, October 1, 12:10-1:10pm
410 White Hall (NES lounge)
**Part of the NES Colloquium Series
Daniel Pearl Music Day
(In memory of journalist and musician Daniel Pearl )
Thursday, October 11, 8:30pm
Alice Cook House Common Room
Featuring the music of the Paul Merrill Trio and remarks by Marianne Scott, Executive Director, Our Voices Together
Sepharadi Persian Night
Thursday, October 18
Details to be announced
An event featuring Professor As'ad Abukhalil
Professor As'ad Abukhalil, California State University Stanislaus
Thursday, October 18, Time: TBA
Place: TBA
PBS documentary, Islam: Empire of Faith
Sarah Pearce, Near Eastern Studies
Saturday, October 20, 2:30pm
RPCC Auditorium
**Part of a week long series: Islam in the World
Frontline/PBS documentary film, 'Muslims'
Sabrina Imam '09 and Neda Simaika '09
Saturday, October 20, 7:30pm
RPCC Auditorium
**Part of a week long series: Islam in the World
For Children: Stories from the Muslim World
Asiya, Maryam, Parvine and Shawkat Toorawa
Sunday, October 21, 3:00pm
Lund Lounge, Mews Hall
**Part of a week long series: Islam in the World
Competitive Colonialisms: a History of Siam and the Malay Muslim South
Professor Tamara Loos, Cornell University
Monday, October 22, 4:30pm
106 White Hall
**Part of a week long series: Islam in the World
Peace is Possible
Hon. Ahmad Hijazi, Mayor, Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam
Monday, October 22, 7:30pm
Unitarian Universalist Church, Ithaca
**Part of a week long series: Islam in the World
The Qur'an, Drew Ali, and Elijah Muhammad
Professor Herbert Berg, UNC Wilmington
Tuesday, October 23, 12:00pm
122 Rockefeller Hall
**Part of a week long series: Islam in the World
Fascism and the Sacred
Professor Dominick LaCapra, Cornell University
Tuesday, October 23, 4:30pm
Guerlac Room, A.D. White House
**Part of a week long series: Islam in the World
The Shape of Water (dir. Kum-Kum Bhavnani)
Professor Kum-Kum Bhavnani, UC Santa Barbara
Tuesday, October 23, 7:15pm
Willard Straight
**Part of a week long series: Islam in the World
Memorial for victims of oppression
Chaplain Omer Bajwa, Cornell University
Wednesday, October 24, 12:00pm
Arts Quad, Cornell University
**Part of a week long series: Islam in the World
Islamic Literature: toward a definition
Professor Shawkat M. Toorawa , Cornell University
Wednesday, October 24, 4:30pm
110 White Hall
**Part of a week long series: Islam in the World
Muslims Negotiating American Culture: The Price of Belonging
Professor Yvonne Haddad, Georgetown University
Thursday, October 25, 4:30pm
165 McGraw Hall
**Part of a week long series: Islam in the World
Islam and Insurgency in Iraq
Professor David Patel, Cornell University
Thursday, October 25, 8:00pm
Lund Lounge, Mews Hall
**Part of a week long series: Islam in the World
Islamic Commitments, Liberal Commitments, and Public Reason: Strategies for Principled Political Reconciliation
Professor Mohammad Fadel, University of Toronto Law School
Friday, October 26, 4:30pm
Kaufman Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
**Part of a week long series: Islam in the World
Turkish Film Festival
Friday, October 26 thru Monday, October 29
For further details go to:
http://cinema.cornell.edu/series_latefall07/turkcineF07.html
Jews and Arabs in Jaffa: Future Model for Israel in Palestine
Adam LeBor, Foreign Correspondent for the Times of London
Thursday, November 1, 4:30pm
132 Rockefeller Hall
An event featuring Arnon Perlman
Arnon Perlman, Senior Advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
Details to be announced
Andalusi Exceptionalism
Professor Ross Brann, Cornell University
Monday, November 5, 12:10-1:10pm
410 White Hall (NES lounge)
**Part of the NES Colloquium Series
**Required reading will be available in 412 White (NES mail/copy room).
For a electronic copy, please email Katie Baillo at kgb28@cornell.edu**
Unsettled, a film screening
Thursday, November 8
Details to be announced
Blocking the Gaze: Concealing Israel's Separation/Apartheid Wall Event
Professor Orly Lubin, Tel Aviv University
Thursday, November 8, 4:30pm
Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall
Lebanese Culinary Trilogy Event
Thursday, November 8 thru Saturday, November 10
Culinary Lab, Statler Hall
Details to be announced
Dan Bakkedahl is coming to Cornell
Dan Bakkedahl, sitcom actor, political satirist, Daily Show Correspondent
Wednesday, November 14
Details to be announced
Arabic, Greek and Syriac Chronographs
Kevin van Bladel, (PhD Yale 2004)
Tuesday, November 27, 4:30pm
106 White Hall
Writing the History of the Constitutional Revolution in Iran (1905-1911): Introducing Georgian Sources
Iago Gocheleishvili, Cornell University
Monday, December 3, 12:10-1:10pm
410 White Hall (NES lounge)
**Part of the NES Colloquium Series
**Required reading will be available in 412 White (NES mail/copy room). For a electronic copy, please email Katie Baillo at kgb28@cornell.edu**
Middle Eastern Film Screenings
August 27 - November 19
Mondays, 7:30pm
165 McGraw Hall
Complete listing and film descriptions
Francophone Egyptian Nationalists, Anti-British Discourse, and European Public Opinion 1885-1910: The Case of Mustafa Kamil and Ya'qub Sannu
Professor Ziad Fahmy, Cornell University
Monday, February 4, 12:10-1:10pm
410 White Hall (NES lounge)
**Part of the NES Colloquium Series
**Required reading will be available in 412 White (NES mail/copy room).
For a electronic copy, please email Katie Baillo at kgb28@cornell.edu**
Doing Fieldwork in Thailand and Yemen
Edwin Zehner, Cornell University
Thursday, February 7, 12:20pm
Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Avenue
Khaled Abu Tooameh (Palestinian/Israeli - Arab Journalist & Documentarian
Monday, February 18, 5:30-7:00pm
Kaufman auditorium
Khaled Abu Tooameh is an award-winning, independent Israeli-Arab journalist who has been covering Palestinian issues in the West Bank and Gaza for over two decades. He began his journalism career as a writer for an official PLO newspaper while attending Hebrew University. He now writes for the Jerusalem Post, and works frequently with NBC and TV-2 Denmark television. Mr. Toameh speaks out against the lack of free speech and press within the PA controlled areas and its effect on the foreign press' coverage on Israel , as well as the biased opinions within the foreign press' coverage. As a veteran journalist, he has knowledge of the behind-the-scenes action within the PA and other Palestinian organizations.
Register at IsraelActivism.com
Shall We Be or Not Be: Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Anxieties of Arab Nationalism
Margaret Litvin, Yale University
Thursday, February 28, 4:30pm
110 White Hall
Brownbag Lunch & Israeli Feature Film Series
Friday, February 29
Beaufort
Friday, March 28
West Bank Story
Friday, April 11
The Band's Visit
** All screenings will be held in 112 White Hall at 11:30am
For a complete listing....(click here).
Islam Awareness Week
Saturday, March 1 - Saturday, March 8
Events forthcoming
Between Ezekiel and Alexander: The Qur'an as a Source for the Libro de Alexandre
Sarah Pearce, Near Eastern Studies
Monday, March 3, 12:10-1:10pm
410 White Hall (NES lounge)
**Part of the NES Colloquium Series
**Required reading will be available in 412 White (NES mail/copy room).
For a electronic copy, please email Katie Baillo at kgb28@cornell.edu**
Under the Floorboards - Hidden Art of the Holocaust
Marc Dennis, Elmira College
Monday, March 3, 4:30pm
165 McGraw Hall
The Archaic Temple of Artemis in the City of Ephesos - the Predecessor of a Wonder of the Ancient World
Aenne Ohnesorg, Technische Universität Munchen
Monday, March 3, 8:00pm
G22 Goldwin Smith Hall
"Middle Eastern Politics: A Palestinian Perspective" A Conversation with the Palestinian Ambassador to the United States Afif Safieh
Tuesday, March 4, 5:30pm
STATLER AUDITORIUM (changed from HEC auditorium)
** Introduction by Cornell President David J. Skorton
Followed by Q&A
Open to the Cornell University and the Ithaca Community
Herodium: Discovering the Tomb of Herod the Great
Professor Ehud Netzer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Monday, March 24, 5:00pm
106 White Hall
Around the World in Eight Days with Shawkat M. Toorawa
The Color of Love, a free film and discussion series about race and... romance
Saturday, February 16
David and Layla
Saturday, March 8
Sepet
Saturday, March 29
A Fond Kiss
Saturday, April 5
Wondrous Oblivion
** All screenings will be held in Robert Purcell Auditorium at 7:00pm
For a complete listing....(click here).
"Salata Baladi/House Salad"
Nadia Kamel
Sunday, March 30, 7:00-9:00pm
Cornell Cinema - Willard Straight
Egyptian filmmaker, Nadia Kamel was born in 1961 in Cairo, where she continues to live and work. The daughter of journalist parents with a long history of political activism, Kamel grew up in a house steeped in progressive politics and a passion for the arts and popular culture. She studied microbiology and chemistry before turning her full attention to her life-long romance with the cinema in 1990. Working as an assistant director to leading independent filmmakers in contemporary Egypt including Atteyat El-Abnoudy, Youssef Chahine and Yousri Nassrallah, Kamel has considerable experience in the making of both documentary and feature films. When Kamel first began to work on her own projects in 2000, she found that a saturated production scene left little space for new directors and unconventional topics. Eventually, she concluded that addressing the daring, often taboo topics, confined to the margins of conventional Egyptian discourse that she hoped to engage with in her projects, she would need to take the risk of producing her own low-budget films. Salata Baladi [A House Salad], her first film, has been produced in this spirit of indomitable independence. After nearly five years of working solo, she was joined by co-producers Films d'Ici and Ventura Films in the post-production of this family tale celebrating a century of Egyptian cosmopolitanism.
Maimonides Code of Jewish Law and the Social and Economic Realities of the Islamic World
Professor Mark Cohen, Princeton University
Monday, March 31, 12:10-1:10pm
410 White Hall (NES lounge)
**Part of the NES Colloquium Series
Eric Cline Grad Archaeology Colloquium:
"Raiders of the Faux Ark": From Noah's Ark to the Ark of the Covenant and Beyond
Monday, March 31, 4:00-5:00pm
104 White Hall
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Public talk
Monday, March 31, 8:00pm
102 Mann Library
DR. ERIC H. CLINE is Associate Professor of Classics and of
Anthropology (Ancient History and Archaeology) and Chair of the Department
of Classical and Semitic Languages and Literatures at The George
Washington University, where he has won both national and local teaching
awards. A former Fulbright scholar and award-winning teacher and author
with degrees from Dartmouth, Yale, and the University of Pennsylvania, he
is Associate Director (USA) of the ongoing excavations at Megiddo
(biblical Armageddon) in Israel as well as Co-Director of the ongoing
excavations at Tel Kabri, also located in Israel. An award-winning
author, he is perhaps best known for his books The Battles of Armageddon:
Megiddo and the Jezreel Valley from the Bronze Age to the Nuclear Age
(2000) and Jerusalem Besieged: From Ancient Canaan to Modern Israel
(2004). He has just published a new
book entitled From Eden to Exile: Unraveling Mysteries of the Bible
(National Geographic Society, June 2007).
Dream for Darfur: An Academic Symposium on the World's Darkest
Olympics
Saturday, April 5th
2:30 Auditorium, Anabel Taylor Hall
Adam Sterling, director of the Sudan Divestment Task Force and star of
"Darfur Now"
Mohamed Yahya, executive director of Damanga Coalition for Freedom and
Democracy and western Darfurian
Monday, April 7th
4:30pm, HEC Auditorium, GS
Nicholas Kristof, renown journalist and NY Times columnist
It is a two-day symposium focusing on China's complicity in the
genocide in Darfur.
Mediterranean Poetry Night: "An Evening of Mostly-Mediterranean Poetry"
Monday, April 7, 6:30pm
A.D. White House
If you would like to read/perform a poem in its original language in an evening of Mediterranean poetry and food on April 7, send the poem and an English translation (and any queries) to Sarah Pearce (sjp55@cornell.edu)
by April 1.
Fusion in Middle Eastern Arts
Saturday, April 12, Cornell's Big Red Barn
11:00am-6:00pm - 3 Dance Workshops
8:00pm - Evening Performance at Risley Hall
**For further details got to www.rso.cornell.edu/cmee
Performance by Cornell Middle Eastern & Mediterranean Music Ensemble
Atakan Sari, Director
Sunday, April 13, 2:00-3:30pm
Herbert F. Johnson Art Museum, 2nd floor European Gallery
Features Ottoman, Armenian, Turkish, Kurdish, and Azeri Music from Izmir, with guest musicians.
