Past Events

Events



Clash

Mar 21, 2018 at

This is part of the Middle East Film Festival. The film, Clash is set entirely in a police truck, a number of detainees from different political and social backgrounds are brought together by fate, during the turmoil…



The Insult

Mar 20, 2018 at

This is part of the Middle East Film Festival 2018. The Insult, a Lebanese film: "In today's Beirut, an insult blown out of proportions finds Toni, a Lebanese Christian, and Yasser, a Palestinian refugee, in court."



Middle East Film Festival 2018

Mar 20, 2018 at

The Middle East Center at the University of Pennsylvania, in collaboration with the Cinema & Media Studies Program, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the Jewish Studies Program, is…



Engaging Students in International Issues: The Choices Approach

Mar 17, 2018 at

8:30AM- 3:00PM Cost- $95 before January 15th, $145 per person after January 15th: Price includes two curriculum units, lunch, certificate of attendance, and all workshop materials. Partial scholarships are available for…



Taking the Temperature on Saudi Arabia in March 2018

Mohammed Alyahya (moderator)
Mar 12, 2018 at

This panel will discuss the current state of affairs in Saudi Arabia and runs from 5:30-7:00 pm. Panelists include: Bernard Haykel, Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University,  Karen E. Young,…



World Culture Day

Al-Bustan, Penn Museum, MEC
Mar 9, 2018 at

119 regional high school students and 16 teachers participated in the special event, World Culture Day sponsored by the Middle East Center along with the South Asia Center and Penn Museum. This popular annual event,…



Iran and the USA

Raha Rafii
Mar 3, 2018 at

On May 3rd, 2018, Raha Rafii delivered a lecture at the George Washington Carver High School in Philadelphia as part of the University of Pennsylvania Speakers' Bureau program. The subject of the lecture was Iran's…



Taking Stock of Feminisms Today and Looking Ahead

Mar 1, 2018 at

DESCRIPTION Taking Stock of Feminisms Today and Looking Ahead Panel 1: 11:00 am-12:30pm In Translation: Transnational Feminisms Today. Introduction by Kathleen Brown, the Director of APC & GSWS. Deborah Thomas…



Jihadism in Saudi Arabia

Cole Bunzel, PhD student at Princeton University
Feb 28, 2018 at

Cole Bunzel is a Ph.D. student at Princeton University's Department of Near Eastern Studies, where his research focuses on the history of Wahhabism, the puritan Islamic reform-movement in Saudi Arabia. It is the…



PACIE-Penn Middle East Center "Educating the Educator" Workshop, Nationalism and Identity in the Era of Colonialism

Various
Feb 24, 2018 at

PACIE-Penn Middle East Center "Educating the Educator" WorkshopNationalism and Identity in the Era of Colonialism Saturday, Feb 24, 20189:15am - 4:00pmIR110 Amado Recital Hall, 3401 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104…