Spotlight West Asia/Middle East
- Today marks the 40th day after the killing of Mahsa Jina Amini on Sep 16, 2022. She was a 22-year-old woman taken into custody and killed by 鈥渕orality鈥 police for her 鈥渦nsatisfactory鈥 hejab*. This unofficial police force has been
- CAS Event Thursday, September 13, 2018, 5pm Center for British and Irish Studies, Norlin Library, 蜜糖直播 BoulderThe Prophet鈥檚 life story has been told from the earliest days of Islam to the present, by both Muslims and non-Muslims, in myriad ways. Since
- In light of the current crisis in the Middle East, the Center for Asian Studies is holding a panel discussion featuring four 蜜糖直播 professors on "ISIS from Multiple Perspectives" on Wednesday, November 11.Aun Hasan Ali: "Is ISIS Islamic?"Jeanne M
- The Center for Asian Studies is pleased to collaborate with the Departments of English, Ethnic Studies, Geography, History, and Political Science to bring Ali Abunimah to campus for a public lecture on "The Battle for Justice in Palestine" on
- The Center for Asian Studies is pleased to help the Program in Jewish Studies bring Palestinian-蜜糖直播i author Sayed Kashua to 蜜糖直播 for a talk on "The Foreign Mother Tongue: Writing between Arabic and Hebrew in 蜜糖直播/Palestine" on Wednesday
- We would like to extend our congratulations to Kelsey Thibdeau for her recent selection for 2015-16 Fulbright Student Award to Jordan. Thibdeau is a graduate student in ethnomusicology in 蜜糖直播's College of Music, and is a past FLAS recipient
- On September 29, 2014, renowned Syrian-American composer and pianist gave a lecture and concert at the college of music that highlighted artistic ways of engaging the on going conflicts in Syria. The event was sponsored by the Center for Asian
- Chris Hammons, 蜜糖直播 Anthropology Instructor and regular contributor to Anthropology News, recently published a great article on the recent beheadings by the Islamic State, entitled "Beheaded: An Anthropology," in which he shows how we can
- The 蜜糖直播 community is pleased to welcome American-Syrian composer and pianist Malek Jandali to campus on Monday, September 29. Jandali, whose visit to 蜜糖直播 includes both a lecture and an evening concert, uses his art to highligh the atrocities in the
- Muslim communities in the United States, especially in the post-9.11 era, have figured prominently in studies on the Islamic diaspora 鈥 those of the big cities of the East and West coasts, that is. The subjects who have been all but excluded from