News & Events

The 4th MEIS Monthly Meeting

Mediating Feeling: Muslims, Gender, and Change in the Age of Social Media | Wednesday, March 27, 2024 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM | Tory Building, Room 14-28

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The 3rd MEIS Monthly Meeting

Echoes of Resilience: Stories and Poetry from Conflict Regions | Tuesday, February 27, 2024 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM (MST) | Zoom Webinar

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The 2nd MEIS Monthly Meeting

Knowledge on Sale: The Privatization of Sociological Teaching in Iran | Monday, January 29, 2024, 4:00 PM — 6:00 PM (MST) | Tory Building, Room 12-15,

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The 1st MEIS Meeting

Featuring Professor Michael Frishkopf Dr. Gabriel Ojakovo Live Music Performance by Kian Moradi When: Tuesday November 28, 4:00-6:00 PM Where: Tory Building 12-15

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The Geostrategic Curse in the Middle East: Regional Rivalries and Western Powers

Public Talk by Fawaz A. Gerges Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics When: Monday September 26, 2022, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM (Edmonton time) Where: Online Zoom Webinar.

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Graduate Student Virtual Symposium

Where: Online Seminar. For registration please CLICK HERE. When: May 31, 2022

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U.S. Middle East Policy in the Post-Trump Era

When: Wednesday, February 24, 2021, 6:00-7:30 PM (Edmonton time) Where: Online Zoom Webinar. For registration please CLICK HERE.

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Imagining “Indigenous” and “Glocal” Democratic Socialism:

   When: Saturday and Sunday 27-28 April 2019, 8:30 AM- 5:00 PM    Where: Room 134, Telus Centre, University of Alberta

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Creating Thriving Societies in Troubling Times

Public talk by Tariq Ramadan, Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies, Oxford University Thursday, 19 January 2017, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM | Room 1-430, The Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science (CCIS), University of Alberta

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The fallacy of Middle East Exceptionalism

Mojtaba Mahdavi | September 22, 2015

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