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Did you register for Global Comparisons of Detention and Deportation?

📆 November 12, 2025 | 10 AM- 11:30 AM
🎤 Sally Hayden, Bridget Anderson, Lorenzo Alunni, Andrew Burridge, Stefanos Geroulanos
📍 Zoom
🎟️ Open to public with registration
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November 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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NYU's Kevorkian Center is hiring an Administrative Aide II to support our program. This is great opportunity for those interested in working in higher education and on issues pertaining to the Middle East.

Apply Today!

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November 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Register now for the Pre-Modern Islamicate World Lecture Series: Weather History and Sciences of Languages in The Book of Rain.

📆 Nov. 12, 2025 |12:00-1:30PM
🎤 David Larsen
📍 Ettinghausen Library | Zoom
🎟️ Open to public w/ registration
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November 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Meet Hanna Davis, our student spotlight from class of 2027 💫

Hanna is in the Global Journalism and Near Eastern Studies Program. She worked as an editor at The Jordan Times and as a freelance journalist in Beirut, reporting on politics across Syria and Lebanon.
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Don't miss out on the first session of the new webinar series: Archives in Dialogue: Archives in Dialogue Webseries: Diaspora, Archives, and the City

📆 Nov. 18, 2025 | 2 PM-3:30PM
🎤 Elizabeth Barrett-Sullivan, Hiba Abid, & Akram Khater
📍 Virtual
🎟️ Open to public w/ registration
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November 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Join us for a Gallatin Human Rights Initiative talk on Aziz Rana’s The Constitutional Bind, part of the Speaker Series on Law, Authoritarianism & Dissent.

📆 Nov. 6, 2025 | 5-7 PM
🎤 Aziz Rana, Christy Thorton, Noah Rosenblum
📍 214 Vanderbilt Hall
🎟️ Open to public w/ registration
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November 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Join author Subah Dayal as she discusses her new book, Between Household and State.

📆 Nov. 11, 2025 | 6 PM - 7:30 PM
🎤 Subah Dayal, @sepoy.bsky.social, Dipti Khera, and Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer
📍 20 Cooper Square, New York, NY 10003
🎟️ Open to public w/ registration
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November 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Our last Virtual Explainer session is this Wednesday! Don't miss out !

🏛️ Sanctuary Cities
📅 11.5.2025 | 10:30 AM | Virtual
Register Here: nyu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Join us & Iranian Studies Initiative next month for a screening of Requiem for a Tribe and a discussion with the filmmaker, Marjan Khosravi.

📆 November 20 2025 | 5 PM - 7 PM
🎤 Marjan Khosravi, Leila Pourtavaf
🎟️ Open to public w/ RSVP
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October 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Happening Today!
📆10.3025 | 5-7 PM
🎤Christina Heatherton
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October 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Meet Leen Amin, our student spotlight from class of 2027 💫

Leen graduated from The Ohio State University, with her senior thesis examining the failed democratization of Libya. Leen's research interests focus on pan-Arabism, revolution, and intellectual history in the Arab world.
October 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Thank you Robert Malley, Adam Shatz, and all who attended the October 23, 2025 conversation on Malley's new book, "Tomorrow Is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine."

If you want to attend a future event at the Kevorkian Center, check out our website, buff.ly/AMQxoWQ
October 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Curious about the links between policing, empire, and resistance, from Chicago to Gaza? Don’t miss this week’s Gallatin Human Rights Initiative panel!

📆 October 30, 2025 | 5 - 7 PM
🎤 @chenjerai.bsky.social, Stuart Schrader, Christina Heatherton
📍 255 Sullivan Street
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October 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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One week until our Research Workshop with Alize Arıcan!

📆 Nov. 3 | 5:30-7 PM
🎟️ NYU Only; not NYU but interested in subject, email us!
📖 Mandatory pre-reading chapter sent upon RSVP
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October 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Introducing Maksim Zakharov, our student spotlight from class of 2027!

Maksim holds a B.A. in International Studies with a focus on Iranian Studies and History from University of Oklahoma. At NYU, he will study leftism and decolonialism in Russian and Persian-language materials.
October 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Our first session is happening next week! Join our Virtual Open House to learn more about our Master's in Near Eastern Studies.

📅 October 29, 2025 & December 3, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
📍 On Zoom
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nyukevo.bsky.social NYU's Kevorkian Center @nyukevo.bsky.social · Oct 6
Curious about pursuing a Master's degree in Near Eastern Studies at NYU?

Join us for our Virtual Open House with Jared McCormick (Director of Graduate Studies) and Fidele Harfouche (Assistant Director) on October 29 or December 3!

Read more and register today: buff.ly/j5UiZQ6
October 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Did you miss our Iranian Studies Initiative panel on Oct.16, Women and Transformative Politics in Iran with Azam Khatam, Fatemeh Sadeghi, and Mona Tajali?

Watch this event recording on our Youtube channel now!
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Please note, the panel was conducted in Persian.
October 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Happening this Thursday! Register now for our discussion with Robert Malley on his book: Tomorrow is Yesterday.

📆 October 23, 2025 | 5:30-7 PM
📍Ettinghausen Library | 255 Sullivan St.
🖇️ RSVP: as.nyu.edu/research-cen...
October 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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📅Mark your calendars! Virtual Explainers - October 22 and Octover 29.

📍Zoom
🖇️ RSVP: migration.nyu.edu/migration-ev...
October 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Join us for the book launch of Decolonizing Afghanistan; Countering Imperial Knowledge & Power!

📆 November 6, 2025 | 5 PM - 6:30 PM
🎤 Wazhmah Osman, Matthieu Aikins, Zohra Saed, and more!
📍239 Greene Street, Floor 8
🎟️ Open to the public with registration
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October 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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In memory of Falak Sufi, we invite students to carry forward her vision through an MA in Near Eastern Studies.

Falak was a brilliant graduate student from Pakistan, passionate abt gender studies, human rights & development. Fellowship supports students from majority Muslim South Asian countries.1/2
October 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Meet Toli Begum, our student spotlight from class of 2027 💫

Toli graduated from Fordham University Lincoln Center with a double major in Middle East Studies and New Media & Digital Design. At NYU, her research focuses on the evolving roles and representations of women in Islamic societies.
October 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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We are excited to introduce our new Assistant Director at the Hagop Kevorkian Center, Fidele Harfouche!

Fidele is dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment while advancing the Center’s mission with creativity, care, and vision.

To learn more: buff.ly/Ln1j3Y0
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October 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Happening this Wednesday- make sure to RSVP for this great opportunity!

📆 Wed., Oct. 15, 9:30AM - 5 PM
📍 NYU Wagner, 105 E 17th St
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nyukevo.bsky.social NYU's Kevorkian Center @nyukevo.bsky.social · Oct 1
Join us for Migration Network for "Detention and Deportation"

📆 Wednesday, October 15, 9:30AM - 5 PM
📍 Main Event Space, NYU Wagner, 105 E 17th St
🎟️ in-person event, open to all with registration
🔗 RSVP here: buff.ly/CJZIujP
October 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Join us for our upcoming Research Workshop w/Alize Arıcan, "Kristina: Calculating Futures and Care in Istanbul"

📆 Nov. 3 | 5:30-7 PM
🎟️ Open to NYU Community (not NYU but interested in subject, email us - kevorkian.center@nyu.edu
📖 Mandatory pre-reading chapter sent upon RSVP
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October 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM