2002-2003 NES Activities and Events

Cinema Egypt
Film screening with Rami Kimchi, University of Michigan
Sunday, March 10, 4:30 pm
Willard Straight Hall
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Sponsors: Near Eastern Studies, Program of Jewish Studies, Cornell Cinema
Mystery or History: The Dead Sea Scrolls as Popular Phenomenon
Professor Maxine Grossman, University of Maryland
Tuesday, March 25, 4:30-6:00 pm
106 White Hall
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Sponsors: Near Eastern Studies, Program of Jewish Studies, Religious Studies Program
Narrative and Violence in Late-Antique Palestine
Professor Hayim Lapin, University of Maryland
Wednesday, March 26, 4:30-6:00 pm
106 White Hall
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Sponsors: Near Eastern Studies, Program of Jewish Studies, Religious Studies Program
Jerusalem of Gold: From Shumer to Shemer
Professor Shalom Paul, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Thursday, March 27, 4:30-6:00 pm
110 White Hall
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Sponsors: Near Eastern Studies, Program of Jewish Studies
The Coming War with Iraq: How Did We Get Here?
Scott Ritter, The UN's top weapons inspector in Iraq until 1998
Thursday March 27, 8:00 pm
Statler Auditorium
Tickets are free and will be available to the public starting Tuesday, March 11 in the WSH ticket office
Sponsors: Cornell University Program Board, Cornell Arab Association, Near Eastern Studies, Watermargin
Challenges in the Formations of Contemporary Muslim Thought
Ebrahim Moosa, Duke University
Friday March 28, 4:30 pm
RPCC Auditorium
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Sponsors: Near Eastern Studies, CSIS, MECA
Simon Shaheen at Cornell University
Arab Music in the Mediterranean Region: Significant Features and Local Variants
Workshop by Simon Shaheen. Nikolai Ruskin will provide percussion.
Thursday, April 3, 5:00 pm
110 White Hall
Master class for Cornell Middle Eastern Music Ensemble
Thursday, April 3, 7:30 pm
B21 Lincoln Hall
An Introduction to Classical Arabic Music and Demonstration of Its Principal Characteristics
Friday, April 4, 6:00 pm
Sage Hall
Buffet dinner
Friday, April 4, 7:00 pm
Sage Hall Conservatory
Near Eastern Music Ensemble
Simon and band to perform classical Arabic music
Friday, April 4, 8:00 pm
Sage Hall Atrium
Sponsors: Department of Near Eastern Studies, Institute for European Studies, Music Department, Suter-Staley Endowment for Global Business Education at the Johnson School of Management
Forged Christianity: Uncovering the Ancient Gospel of Peter
Professor Bart Ehrman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Thursday April 3, 4:15-6:00 pm
106 White Hall
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Sponsors: Near Eastern Studies, Program of Jewish Studies, Religious Studies Program
Omar Faruk Tekbilek Concert: Music For Peace
Thursday April 10, 8:00 pm
Barnes Hall
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Sponsors: Department of Near Eastern Studies, Dean of Students, Einaudi Center, GPSAFC, ISPB, Department of Music, Turkish Students Association
The Male Mosque and the Female Shrine? Sufi Women in Islamic History
Barbara von Schlegell, University of Pennsylvania
Friday April 11, 4:30 pm
TV Lounge, Robert Purcell Community Center
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Sponsors: Near Eastern Studies, MECA, Religious Studies, Cornell Faculty Programs in Residential Communities
Islam Culture Night
Including guest speakers Mahmoud Ayoub, Temple University and Barbara von Schlegell, University of Pennsylvania
Saturday April 12, 6:00 pm
Memorial Room, Willard Straight Hall
Tickets available from and
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Sponsors: Near Eastern Studies, MECA, Arab Assn, Awaaz
What Arabs Think--about themselves, the Middle East, the US and US foreign policy in the Middle East
Dr. James Zogby, Arab-American Institute
Monday April 14, 4:30 pm
Goldwin Smith D Auditorium
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Sponsors: Near Eastern Studies, Arab Students Association
Program of Jewish Studies Symposium
The Modern German Jewish Experience: Trends and Streams in the 19th Century
Sunday, April 27, 11:00 am-4:30 pm
110 White Hall
11:00 am - Heinrich Graetz on the Enlightenment and the Haskalah
Allan Arkush, Binghamton University
12:00 pm - When Jewish Men Prayed like Women: On the Culture of Prayer in Jewish Homes and Synagogues
Maria Benjamin Baader, University of Toronto
1:00 pm - Lunch break
2:30 pm - Ethical Monotheism and Jewish Liturgy from Mendelssohn to Cohen
Steven Kepnes, Colgate University
3:30 pm - On the Meaning of Germanness to “German” Jews in Austria-Hungary
Marsha Rozenblit, University of Maryland
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Sponsors: Program of Jewish Studies, Morris Goldstein Endowment for Jewish Studies Curriculum Enhancement
Murdered Modernisms: The Legacy of Soviet Yiddish Poetry
Professor Chana Kronfeld, UC Berkeley
Monday April 28, 4:30 pm
110 White Hall
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Sponsor: Program of Jewish Studies
An Introduction to Islamic Law, Economics, and Finance
Professor Mahmoud A. El-Gamal
Monday April 28, 6:00-7:30 pm
B-01 Sage Hall
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Sponsors: Near Eastern Studies, Johnson School
Crossing Boundaries Seminar Series
A Square by any other Name... Manshiyah Square & the Transformation of Alexandria 1952-62
Professor Deborah Starr
Friday, May 2, 12:15 pm
157 East Sibley Hall
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Sponsor: International Studies in Planning