MEIS at UC- Riverside

MEIS Award Ceremony and End of the Year Meeting, June 4th, 2024. Congratulations to the awardees and to all the students and colleagues! Many thanks to the staff and everyone!

We had a great talk on British Muslim volunteers in the Syrian war by Dr Muneeza Rizvi from UC Berkeley, and the conversation that followed today.

I couldn't be happier today to share great news from our Department: We have a new PhD! Dr. Adam Tyson passes his dissertation defense with distinction. A serious, excellent intellectual history of the debates on 'mystical monism' in the 17th century Ottoman, Mughal, and Safavid Empires. Professor Pashaura Singh and Professor Fariba Zarinebaf and myself as the chair, are so proud of Dr. Tyson: an exemplary student, teacher, friend, and human being! We wish Dr. Tyson all the best for a great academic career ahead!

A Book Talk "Q***r Companions" by Dr Omar Kasmani, at INTS 1113 and dinner, Monday, May 8, 2023.

Please join us.

https://middleeastandislamicstudies.ucr.edu/sites/default/files/2023-04/middle-east-and-islamic-studies-paper-prize-2023.pdf

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Please join a panel discussion Protests in Iran, virtually held on Friday, October 28, 2022, at 2:00 - 3:30 pm Pacific Time.

Celebrating student achievements, Meis best paper prizes go to Marina Muriello, Andrew Perkins and Shayan Saeed. Congratulations class of 2022.

The Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program, the Department of History, the Global 19th Century Workshop, and Center for Ideas and Society at UCR present:

A BOOK TALK

Hellenic Statecraft and the Geopolitics of Difference (Routledge, 2021)
Professor Alex G. Papadopoulos, DePaul University

Time: Tuesday, May 31, 2:30-4:00 PM (online)

Please register at: https://ucr.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYlduGgpj0uGdeVu1vJHRwG66ZdDIIsNh6o

Professor Papadopoulos is an urban and political geographer and has written extensively on contestation of urban space in Europe, Russia (St. Petersburg), and the US (Chicago). His study of musical traditions (edited volume) in Istanbul also traced a cosmopolitan heritage to the Ottoman empire’s many minority groups and their strategies for inclusion and contestation through culture.

In Hellenic Statecraft Papadopoulos and his historian co-author, Triantafyllos Petridis, explore the constitution of the modern State and Greek society through ideas and social facts that produced competing ontologies of Hellenism and Hellenicity: ideas about national origins, manifest destiny, cultural hierarchy, exceptionalism, privilege, and difference; social facts expressed as formal or informal norms, processes, and practices, affirming or disrupting the exercise of power and social and territorial control. From their perspective, difference as expressed in urban change – and urban forms, in particular – becomes the crucible upon which institutional actors and subjects sort their relationship to the state, the nation, and liberty. Accepting that difference exists in the state enables subaltern communities to claim a place in politics and engage in contestatory politics. The book is available online at Rivera Library.

Please contact Fariba Zarinebaf at [email protected] for further details.

UCR undergrad and grad students, please submit your papers for the Best Paper Prizes in Middle East and Islamic Studies, by April 30.
Check the flyer here for more information.
https://middleeastandislamicstudies.ucr.edu

Middle East and Islamic Studies ANNOUNCEMENT Best Student Paper Prize in Middle East and Islamic Studies Deadline of submission: April 30th, 2022 See Flyer The major and minor in the Middle East and Islamic Studies offer a broad course of interdisciplinary and theoretically informed study. It is designed to provide a broad underst...

Thank you, Dr Fahd Abdullah Al-Samary, UCR alumnus and current secretary-general of King Saud's Foundation for Research and Archives for the generous gift of many Arabic books on the history, literatures, politics and cultures of Saudi Arabia and the Arab Peninsula. The UCR Middle East and Islamic Studies faculty and students will benefit much from the books.

The department of History at UCR presents:

Sholeh Wolpe, How to read Persian classical and modern poetry as poems of defiance?

Sholeh Wolpe is an award winning Iranian- American poet, writer and translator based in Los Angeles. Her own collection of exilic poetry, Keeping Time with Blue Hyacinths as well as her translation of Iran’s renowned classical and modern poetry have won her wide recognition in the US and abroad. She will be reading from her own poetry as well as her translations. Please join us for this wonderful occasion.

Date & Location:Thursday, August 24, 1:30-3:00 pm

Zoom Registration Link:

Please contact Fariba Zarinebaf at [email protected]

Elementary Turkish (TURKIC 101A) Advanced Turkish (TURKIC 102A) Location @ Zoom
Enroll now!
Open to all UC students through cross-campus enrollment.
For more information, contact
Dr. Beyza Lorenz at [email protected]

Recording of UC Riverside MEIS & MESC Panel on Palestine/Israel Conflict & Resolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWvmKE_k5z8&t=15s

UC Riverside MEIS & MESC Panel on Palestine/Israel Conflict & Resolution A panel discussion with the Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies department and the Middle Eastern Student Center at UC Riverside with Professors Michael Alexand...

Please register at tinyurl.com/ucrpanel to get a zoom link.

Please join this.

Dear faculty and students,

Please encourage your students to submit their undergraduate or graduate essays, or students may submit their essays on any topic on the Middle East and Islam for Best Paper Prizes by April 30.

Prof Noah Feldman's talk on his book the Arab Winter: A Tragedy" and conversation with Dr Muhamad Ali and Dr Michael Alexander.

Please join.

Please join our webinar on Islam and Diversity in Contemporary Indonesia. Mark your calendar.

Please join this talk on Islam and Diversity in Contemporary Indonesia: Belief, Gender and Politics, Thursday March 18, 05:00 - 07:00 p.m.

A reminder of this event today.

Please join this event February 10, 4 pm PST. Register online at tinyurl.com/MEISevent

Please join this event February 10, 4 pm PST. Register online at tinyurl.com/MEISevent