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Arab Futures & Pasts

Past Events

November
12
Date
Wed November 12th 2025, 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Location:
The Nitery
514 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
Markaz Resource Center, Room 210 (The Lounge)
Speaker
Adam Benkato

How does poetry resist erasure?

May
23
Date
Fri May 23rd 2025, 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Location:
Encina Commons
615 Crothers Way, Stanford, CA 94305
123
Speaker
Sami Ouchane

How does war reshape schools and schoolchildren?

May
14
Date
Wed May 14th 2025, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Location:
McMurtry Building
355 Roth Way, Stanford, CA 94305
370
Speaker
Nisa Ari

In the first half of the twentieth century in Palestine, artists worked within a political landscape in near constant transition—including the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, the First World…

April
29
Date
Tue April 29th 2025, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location:
Encina Commons
615 Crothers Way, Stanford, CA 94305
123
Speaker
Nadim Bawalsa

Tens of thousands of Palestinians migrated to the Americas in the final decades of the nineteenth century and early decades of the twentieth.

April
7
Date
Mon April 7th 2025, 5:30pm
Location:
McMurtry Building
355 Roth Way, Stanford, CA 94305
370
Speaker
Heather A. Badamo

After the Apocalypse: Church Renewal and Renovation in Medieval Egypt

February
11
Date
Tue February 11th 2025, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Location:
Encina Commons
615 Crothers Way, Stanford, CA 94305
123
Speaker
Rusha Latif

In this talk based on her new book Tahrir’s Youth: Leaders of a…

December
4
Date
Wed December 4th 2024, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Location:
Encina Commons
615 Crothers Way, Stanford, CA 94305
119
Speaker
Ramzi Salti

In this audiovisual talk, Dr. Ramzi Salti explores how Lebanon’s tumultuous history relates to the enduring musical legacy of Fairuz.

October
23
Date
Wed October 23rd 2024, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location:
Encina Commons
615 Crothers Way, Stanford, CA 94305
Room 123
Speaker
Fatima Zahrae Chrifi Alaoui

The construction of gender and sexuality in North Africa has been profoundly shaped by the legacy of colonialism, particularly in Algeria.

October
21
Date
Mon October 21st 2024, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location:
Encina Commons
615 Crothers Way, Stanford, CA 94305
123
Speaker
Christopher Tounsel, Laetitia Bader

This panel brings to light the hidden and often overlooked atrocities unfolding in Sudan amid the violent clash between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese military.

May
29
Date
Wed May 29th 2024, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location:
Encina Commons
615 Crothers Way, Stanford, CA 94305
123
Speaker
Hesham Sallam

In this talk, Hesham Sallam will discuss his book Classless Politics: Islamist…