Come meet other members of the Cornell community interested in studying Southwest Asia and North Africa, including fellow students, faculty, staff, postdocs, and Visiting Scholars. Tea, coffee & snacks, both sweet and savory, will be served.

Global politics are undergoing a radical rupture. The post-WWII rules-based international order, which prohibits most uses of military force, provides collective security, and respects human rights, has always been imperfect. But today several prominent governments appear to be explicitly repudiating these norms.…

Talk by Kali Rubaii (Anthropology, Purdue University)

Taking war as a toxic structure, this talk begins at the belly of war, in Fallujah, Iraq. Rubaii's forensic ethnography between 2014 and 2024 traces weaponized metals from the sand and bodies of people in Fallujah back to their origins at war's…

ALMOG BEHAR was born in Netanya in 1978. He is a poet, novelist, translator, researcher and scholar. Behar lives in Jerusalem, and teaches in the Department of Literature at Tel-Aviv University about the connections between Hebrew and Arab literatures, the connections between the Jewish Liturgical poetry traditions…

Talk by Rishad Choudhury (History, Oberlin College)

This talk surveys Islam’s emergence as an “imperial religion” in the Indian Ocean empire of the British Raj. Scholarship on colonial Islam has largely told a story of resistance: European empire as a provocation, and Pan-Islam as the insurgent reaction. By…

Talk by Marc Herman (Humanities, York University)

In this book talk, Marc Herman discusses his new book, After Revelation: The Rabbinic Past in the Medieval Islamic World. This book demonstrates that medieval Jewish legal thought was forged in dialogue with various and competing schools of Islamic law.…

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Filmed over ten years, One in a Million follows Israa from childhood to adulthood on an extraordinary journey from war-torn Syria to Germany — and back again. We first meet her at age 11 as she and her family prepare to cross the Aegean Sea, risking everything in search of safety and a better life in Europe.

Go global in summer 2027! Global Internships give you valuable international work experience in fields spanning global development, climate and sustainability, international relations, communication, business, governance, and more.

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Go global in summer 2027! Global Internships give you valuable international work experience in fields spanning global development, climate and sustainability, international relations, communication, business, governance, and more.

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