Upcoming Events

The Middle East Lectures Series, 2025: Dr. Hakem al Rustom

Mar 25, 2025 - 03:30pm  - Mar 25, 2025 - 04:30pm
Location: Reading Room, 3rd Floor, Ortega Hall

“Surviving Borders: Armenian Lives in the Shadow of Genocide” Summary: This lecture examines the experiences of Armenian communities in the Middle East during the first half of the 20th century, focusing on the profound effects of displa... read more

The Middle East Lectures Series, 2025: Dr. Amit Sadan

Apr 01, 2025 - 03:30pm  - Apr 01, 2025 - 04:30pm
Location: Reading Room, 3rd Floor, Ortega Hall

Summary: The Middle East is known in popular culture to be a space of climatic extremes on the one hand and migration-inducing political instability on the other. We often tend to consider such phenomena separately, with no regard to their possible ... read more

The Middle East Lectures Series, 2025: Dr. Diane King

Apr 08, 2025 - 03:30pm  - Apr 08, 2025 - 04:30pm
Location: Reading Room, 3rd Floor, Ortega Hall

“How Migration Shaped 1990s-2000s Iraqi Kurdistan” Summary: This presentation will offer an ethnographic retrospective of the 1990s and 2000s in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Bookended by the 1991 Gulf War and Kurdish uprising, and the b... read more

The Middle East Lectures Series, 2025: Dr. Saghar Sadeghian

Apr 17, 2025 - 03:30pm  - Apr 17, 2025 - 04:30pm
Location: Reading Room, 3rd Floor, Ortega Hall

“Denied Citizens: Baha’is in the Post-1979 Revolution of Iran” Summary: The Baha’i Faith was founded in 1844 in Iran. Today, the Baha’i community constitutes the largest non-Muslim religious minority in the country. Des... read more

The Middle East Lectures Series, 2025: Dr. Lior Sternfeld

Apr 22, 2025 - 03:30pm  - Apr 22, 2025 - 04:30pm
Location: Reading Room, 3rd Floor, Ortega Hall

“The Jewish Exodus from the Muslim Middle East: Is 1948 rightfully taken as the breakpoint?” Summary: This talk examines the history of the Jewish communities in the Middle East throughout the 20th century. It explores the recorded histo... read more

The Middle East Lectures Series, 2025: Dr. Jessica Goodkind

Apr 29, 2025 - 03:30pm  - Apr 29, 2025 - 04:30pm
Location: Reading Room, 3rd Floor, Ortega Hall

“Supporting Refugee Communities from the Middle East in Albuquerque” Summary: United Voices for Newcomer Rights (UVNR) is a community-led organization that was founded in 2019. UVNR works to improve the lives of newcomers by addressing b... read more