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Next week, the @mesa1966.bsky.social annual meeting will be in Washington DC.

We are incredibly proud of NYU's representation at this year's MESA's 2025 conference. Over 30 @nyu.edu faculty & students from various departments, global sites, & centers across NYU are presenting this year.
November 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Introducing Beril Eski, our class of 2027 student spotlight!

@berileski.bsky.social is enrolled in the joint Global Journalism and Near Eastern Studies program as a Goren Fellow. Eski is an award-winning journalist from Istanbul with a bachelor's degree in law.

Welcome to our community, Beril.
November 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Join us for a conversation with Miriyam Aouragh on her paper "Propaganda in Times of Genocide."

📆 Tues. Nov.18, 2025 | 4 PM - 6 PM
🎤 Miriyam Aouragh
📍HDSC Conference Room 802 | 196 Mercer St
🎟️ Open to public with registration
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November 12, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Experience the intersections of storytelling, translation, and visual art at "Tahira Naqvi: In Words and Colors".

📆 Nov. 14, 2025 | 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
🎤 Raza Rumi, Nader Uthman, Gabriela Nik Ilieva
📍 Ettinghausen Library, Kevorkian Center
🎟️ Open to Public, RSVP is Mandatory
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November 11, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Interested in studying the Middle East through an interdisciplinary lens? Apply for a MA in Near Eastern Studies at NYU's Kevorkian Center!

📅 Virtual Open Houses on December 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM -> buff.ly/uyuFDJm
🖇️ Learn more: buff.ly/ghuoQrX
🚨 Deadline for all applications: January 15, 2025
November 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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
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!

🖇️ To learn more: buff.ly/EUnQG5T
November 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Thank you to Muhammad Naeem, Tahira Naqvi, and all those in the audience, for contributing to the brilliant discussion about Allama Iqbal that took place on September 25, 2025.

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October 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Don't miss out on this engaging book talk with Robert Malley, as he discusses his most recent publication: Tomorrow is Yesterday.

📆 October 23, 2025 | 5:30-7 PM
🎤 Robert Malley , Adam Shatz
📍 Ettinghausen Library | 255 Sullivan St.
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October 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Meet Mohamad Rimawi, our student spotlight from class of 2027 💫 

Mohamad earned his B.A. in Economics from CUNY Hunter College in 2022. At NYU, he aims to investigate the impact of domestic politics and interest groups on American foreign policy in the Middle East.
October 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM