Global Middle East at UCI

Come join the Global Middle East Studies club for a film screening of 1948 Creation & Catastrophe.

When: Jan 31st (next Thursday)
Time: 6:15 p.m. Film Screening 7:45 Panel Discussion
Where: The Paul Merage School of Business Auditorium
RSVP at socialecology.uci.edu/webforms/1948

"In the years after the world war that ravaged the Ottoman Empire, Hassan left his native village in modern-day Lebanon to join his parents and siblings in the growing Midwest town of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. To do so, he had to sidestep the stringent immigration quotas newly implemented by the US. But years later, when the authorities learned that he entered and was living in the US illegally, he was threatened with deportation. Through Hassan's story, we'll learn about the experience of Arab migration to the United States and get to know the Syrian-American community that despite numbering in the hundreds of thousands by the 1920s, found itself repeatedly compelled to prove its worthiness to be included in a society where nativism was on the rise and being entitled to full citizenship often meant being considered white."

Syrian in Sioux Falls Episode 390 Produced and Narrated by Chris Gratien Episode Consultant: Reem Bailony Series Consultant: Emily Pope-Obeda Script Ed...

Check out this engaging piece on the history of US immigration restriction as it affected immigrants from the former Ottoman Empire. How do you deport someone back to an empire that no longer exists? Why were certain ethnic groups targeted more than other groups who had entered the United States under the exact same conditions? What was the rhetoric of inherent cultural differences that fueled immigration policy and was it influenced by racism, nationalism, and/or politics?

This episode includes audio of American political speeches and debates of the era, interviews with historians of migration, and a concise overview of exclusionary immigration laws.

Deporting Ottoman Americans Episode 370 narrated by Chris Gratien Chief Consultant: Emily Pope-Obeda Script Editor: Sam Dolbee with additional contributions b...

"As temperatures rise, the cedars’ ecological comfort zone is moving up the mountains to higher altitudes, chasing the cold winters they need to reproduce. But here in the Barouk forest, part of the Shouf Biosphere Reserve, south of Beirut, there isn’t much farther up to go. If the climate warms at the rates expected because of the continued rise of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere, some scholars say that by 2100 cedars will be able to thrive only at the northern tip of the country, where the mountains are higher.

In the north, though, there are different problems. Lebanon’s densest cedar forest, the Tannourine Cedars Forest Nature Reserve, has lost more than 7 percent of its trees to insect infestations unknown before 1997. They are directly tied to a warming, drying climate."

Climate Change Is Killing the Cedars of Lebanon Global warming could wipe out most of the country’s remaining cedar forests by the end of the century.

Check out this free event in Los Angeles July 14th.

Tea Afar ( ) is a nomadic storytelling experience that shares traditions and rituals across borders. Over tea, we tell stories about one country. For this collaborative edition we will “visit” Jordan and its unique position as a refuge for the Middle East region.

Saturday
July 14, 2017, 6-9pm at the James Irvin Japanese Garden
21 and over limited seating

ريتا و البندقية Songs of Palestine: Marcel Khalifé Marcel Khalifé Vinyl Album: Promises of the Storm, one of Lebanon's foremost composers sings songs of Palestine Original poem written by Palestinian poet Mah...

Az Eshgh by the great Mohammad Reza Shajarian

Mohammad Reza Shajarian: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert Every Tiny Desk Concert provides its own particular thrill, but it's not every day that we get to welcome one of NPR's 50 Great Voices to our offices. With t...

אינדי סיטי - Yemen Blues - Jat Mahibathi צולם בעיר העתיקה בירושלים. .Filmed at the old city of Jerusalem .Jat Mahibathi", by Yemen Blues, is a music video made for the Indie-City project" הפרוייקט נ...

The Global Middle East Club will be screening the film, 5 Broken Cameras, this Friday, June 8th from 7 to 9.

Come and enjoy a fascinating documentary about non-violent resistance!

The screening will be in Newport Beach Room A at the student center.

There is still time to vote. Polls are open till 8pm tonight.

The Global Middle East club is hosting a Movie Night, screening the documentary “Five Broken Cameras” this Friday June 8, from 7-9 at Newport Beach Room A located at Student Center level 4 Room # G412.
The documentary Five Broken Cameras is co-directed by Palestinian Emad Burnat and Israeli Guy Davidi. It is a first-hand account of protests in Bil'in, a West Bank village affected by the Israeli West Bank barrier.

"Gershon Shafir discusses why this occupation has lasted for so long in the West Bank and how “the Occupation” has differed from earlier forms of settler colonialism in Israel-Palestine. In particular, we focus on the state of “permanent temporariness” that the Israeli government has purposefully inculcated in the face of international law and the emergence of a specific movement of religious-nationalist settlers. At the end, Shafir contemplates how the Occupation has changed the larger Arab-Israeli conflict itself and, by means of a feasibility study, suggests a variety of different visions for the future of the area."

A Half Century of Occupation Episode 344 with Gershon Shafir hosted by Nir Shafir Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud 2...

Tomorrow's club meeting is canceled. Meetings will resume next Wednesday.

Turkish Funk from 1974.

Funk Turco - Karlı Dağlar (Montes Nevados) de Erkin Koray (1974)

Check out this audio interview with Will Hanley, author of Identifying with Nationality: Europeans, Ottomans, and Egyptians in Alexandria. The book is social and legal history that examines the consequences nationalism on the ethnically diverse population in Alexandria, Egypt at the turn of the 20th century.

Nationality and Cosmopolitanism in Alexandria Episode 345 with Will Hanley hosted by Taylor M. Moore Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In ...

Please join us for our meeting today Wed May 23 from 1-2 at MKH400. Today we will be discussing Ramadan and its traditions.

Do you know what is Ramadan? And how Muslims around the Globe celebrate the month of Ramadan?
Please join us for our weekly meeting tomorrow Wednesday May 23 from 1-2 at Murray Krieger Hall conference room 400. Honoring the month of Ramadan, tomorrow we will be discussing Ramadan and its traditions.

What would you bring with you if you had to leave your home in an emergency?

Several million Iraqis and Syrians have had to make this very decision. This photo exhibition documents objects that some people took on their journey who were finally resettled in the United States. The exhibition will be showing from May 19th to August 5th 2018 at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles.

What We Carried Fragments from the Cradle of Civilization

Persian Calligraphy event with Mr. Zarrinkelk. @ University of California, Irvine

Join us for our meeting tomorow Wed May16 from 1-2 at MKH 400. We will be discssing about the U.S. embassy relocation to Jerusalem

Tomorrow we will talk about any book that had changed our lives and why. It can be about the Middle East or anything you like.

Please join us for Persian Calligraphy session with Mr. Noureddin Zarrinkelk from 1-2 at HH251.
Please bring tilted tip markers.

The Arabic Language and Culture Club at UCI will be hosting a calligraphy workshop with Haji Noor Deen Mi Guang Jiang who practices Arabic calligraphy in the Chinese style. His work is an example of the living diversity of the Global Middle East.

Islam had first come to China via trading routes during the Tang Dynasty and Sinicized Arabic calligraphy was gradually developed as an art form. Haji Noor Deen who hails from Shandong, bears the fruits of historical cross cultural fertilization and articulates them in his own unique style in contemporary times.

He will be teaching a workshop next week on Tuesday, Wednesday from 6 to 9 pm in HH251 and Thursday 7:30-9:30 pm in HG 1030. Please see the link attached for more details and to register for the event.

Last discussion we explored production of knowledge and legitimacy by examining the short story Coyote goes to School. Stop by next Tuesday at Krieger Hall 400 and we will talk about migration. :)

Hello everyone,
Hope you guys are having a great Monday so far, and for those of you who are studying for midterms, we wish you a good luck. Just a friendly reminder regarding our weekly meetings; due to busy nature of midterms week, there will be NO GME student organization meeting TOMORROW TUESDAY FEB 13.
We will resume our meetings next week. 🙂

What is East and West anyway? The boundaries have shifted over the course of history. Are the reasons for the shifts more political or ideological? Can a given country simply jump out of its designated surrounding geography by simply being a powerful political or economic ally to whoever draws the boundaries? Maybe all of this is bu****it.... or is there some utility in the idea of East and West, at least in terms of understanding how key figures of influence perceive and act in the world?

Explore questions like these and connect with others at the Global Middle East club at UCI.

East Meets West Nick Danforth , Georgetown University Another set of my own maps. If the second one isn't terribly original, I hope at least the ...

Good morning everyone,

Hope you guys are having a great week so far, and for those of you who are studying for midterms, we wish you a good luck.

Just a friendly reminder regarding our meeting. We will be holding our second GME meeting today Tuesday February 6, from 12-12:50pm in MKH building conference room 400.

Can't wait to see you all today! 😊

Hello Everyone,
Please join us for our Welcome Event today Tuesday Jan 30th from 11:30-12:30 at Murray Krieger Hall conference room 400. We will be discussing and planning for different exciting events for the rest of the quarter. Snacks and light refreshments will be provided.

If you are interested in the Global Middle East and meeting awesome people, come and check out our club tomorrow at Murray Krieger Hall Room 400 at 11:30-12:30! :)