This paper aims to answer two important questions using MENA countries’ data between 1996 and 2017. The firsts: what are the impacts of the financial development and the quality of institutions (or corruption levels) on the informal/shadow economy? The second question is: how does the interaction between financial development and institution quality affect informality? The results show that as...

This talk will address first, the dominant mystifying perceptions of the current crisis of transition in Libya after 2011, then it shall present an alternative critical argument to understand the causes of the civil war, and main internal, regional and international actors behind it.

Learn about the history of Turkish folk music and Anatolian wind instruments from past to present! Click here to watch the recording.

A lecture by Dr. Lee Clare, a Research Lecturer in Prehistoric Archaelogy at DAI Instanbul on the oldest known temple in the world! Göbekli Tepe can be found in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. Göbekli Tepe is dated between c. 9500 and 8000 BCE. Click here for the recording.  

Learn how to speak Turkish and make new friends! Click here to watch the recording.            

This lecture seeks to trace the drafting history of UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 declaring Zionism as a form of racism with an emphasis on how the text and process shaped a racial theory of Zionist settler-colonization. Click here to watch the recording.  

 In this talk, a VAR methodology is run on monthly data from 2000 to 2017 in order to investigate the role of the real exchange rate on trade flows of three oil-importing countries in the MENA region, especially during the tremendous and transitional post-Arab Spring period. Click here to watch the...

In this talk, Prof. Newman (Dept. of Religion, UIUC) examines the role of narrative placemaking in the epigraphic and literary record of fifteenth-century Mewar in northwest India. Click here to watch the recording.  

Speaker: Dr. Honaida Yousuf Ahyad. In today’s talk, Dr. Ahyad will address three Sociolinguistic Challenges: the excessive use of religious expressions, gender role and their impact on the workplace, and translation loss. Click here to watch the recording.    

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