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    Teacher Workshop on "The Living Sahara: New Horizons in Teaching Africa and the Middle East"
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    What Will Be the Impact of Egypt's Ambitious K-12 Education Reform?

     

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  • Professor Valerie J. Hoffman is featured as LAS Expert
    Beneath the surface of Islam Valerie Hoffman explores the cultures and subcultures of the Muslim faith   Valerie J. Hoffman, research professor emerita in the Department of Religion, has served at the University of Illinois for more than 39 years. She...
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  • Professor Asef Bayat on recent protests in Iran.
    Asef Bayat, the Catherine and Bruce Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the Department of Sociology at UIUC was recently interviewed by the Tehran daily Etemaad on recent Iranian protests. Shortly after its publication, the Iranian authorities ordered the newspaper to take the...
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    Eric Calderwood's new book

    “With extraordinary linguistic range, Calderwood brings us the voices of Arabs and Muslims who have turned to the distant past of Spain to imagine their future.”—Hussein Fancy, Yale University.  How the memory of Muslim Iberia shapes art and politics from New York and Cordoba to Cairo and the West Bank. During the Middle Ages, the Iberian Peninsula was home not...
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    Alumni Spotlight: Ambar Flores

    Ambar graduated from our MA program in summer 2016. She entered the CSAMES MA program in the Fall of 2013 with the Middle East specialization. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Islamic Civilization and Societies from Boston College and has also studied in Morocco. Ambar’s past...
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    Recent Lecture: Literary Representations of Nested Memory: a Contrapuntal Approach

    What happens when we recognize that inheritors of traumatic cultural memory can also be witnesses to succeeding events of collective violence? More specifically, how does the field of contemporary cultural memory studies develop tools to make meaning of the narrativization of those acts of...
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