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Dr. Serpil Atamaz Assistant Professor of History California State University, Sacramento Dr. Serpil Atamaz reveals the truths behind gender separation during World War…
Women and World War I in the Middle East
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Zayer Baazaoui Ph.D. candidate in Literary, Cultural and Linguistic Studies University of Miami, Florida Zayer Baazaoui explains the connection between the development…
Representations of Female Homosexuality in Middle…
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Migration, the movement of people to a new area or country in order to find work or better living conditions. Much of this process is overlooked or ignored in our…
Uncertain Status: Migrant Labor in Morocco and…
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Alexandre Dorriz BA University of California Berkeley MFA Candidate University of Southern California Alexandre Dorriz revisits Edward Said’s definitions…
Auto-Orientalism and Trauma
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Audrey Armstrong Undergraduate Anthropology California State University, Chico Audrey Armstrong presents her findings from an interview with the son of an Afghani Jew.…
Folktales of the Afghani Jews
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Levon Ghanimian Undergraduate History California State University, Northridge Levon Ghanimian explores art in the Middle East. He talks about the dark history of many…
Temür, Painter of Politics
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Allison Brooke Yates Student, Indiana University Ms. Yates explains how a group of Muslim women living in the United States interpret Muslim fashion. She interviewed…
Islam and Fashion in a Transnational Context
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Rod Thomson Student, California State University, Chico In the Ottoman Empire, social welfare and humanitarian relief was provided by the institution known as Waaf.…
Longevity of the Ottoman ‘Imaret'
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Casey Benson, Thomas Giles, and Eric Lefevers Students, California State University, Chico The speakers use the results of their research to assert that the 1979-1981…
The Truth Behind Argo: Iranian Hostage Crisis and…
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Lila Wael Raouf Student, Indiana University Ms. Raouf starts out by posing the question, “Why do social movements sometimes not reach their original goals of…
Obstacles to Democratic Goals of Social…
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Brandon Michael Smith Student, Wichita State University The valleys formed by the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers are among the most fertile areas in the entire Middle…
The Influence of Sustainable Action on Cultural…
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Jonathan Miller & Seth Thomas Portland State University Students The presenters give a history of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, from its roots in the fall of the…
The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood
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Mehdi Beyad Student, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London “The Middle East,” as a region and as a concept, is a relatively modern…
Narrative and Agency: Beyond the…
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Zavier Christian Wingham Student, University of Texas, Austin Mr. Wingham asserts that the Western news media portray all Muslim women as being the same, and also in…
Islam, Feminism, and Western Assumptions: Early…
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A Percolation of Culture: The Ottoman Coffee… 15 of 15
A Percolation of Culture: The Ottoman Coffee…
Kristin Feay Student, California State University, Northridge Ms. Feay’s focus is on the historical role of coffee houses as “vessels of cultural…A Percolation of Culture: The Ottoman Coffee…
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