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  • Session 5A -EU-Arab Partnership, EU Sanctions against MENA Countries, and EU Intervention in MENA Heritage Reconstruction

    Chair/Discussant: Ibrahim G. Aoudé (University of Hawai‘i) Víctor Luis Gutiérrez Castillo (University of Jaén) – The New Cooperation between the European Union and the Arab League Aims for a Rapprochement: Towards a More Solid Euro-Arab Partnership? Rabia M’Rabet Temsamani (Universidad Internacional de la UNIA) – Critical Analysis of the Sanctions of the European Union against […]

  • Session 5B – Monumental Baghdad: The Complexities of Public Art in the City of Peace

    Chair: Tiffany Floyd (University of North Texas) Nada Shabout (University of North Texas) – New Narratives: Monumental Renovation and Cultural Consumption Tiffany Floyd (University of North Texas) – Legendary Baghdad: Ghani’s City of Monuments Zainab Bahrani (Columbia University) – Ghosts of the Gates of Baghdad: Monuments, Colonialism and Spatial Transformation in Early Twentieth Century Iraq […]

  • Session 6A – Roundtable: The Reordering of the “Middle East Region”

    Chair: M. Moncef Khaddar (Cyprus International University, Northern Cyprus) Elizabeth Bishop (American University of Iraq-Baghdad) Rabab Abdulhadi (San Francisco State University) Wojciech Forysinski (Eastern Mediterranean University, Northern Cyprus) Nur Köprülü (Near East University, Northern Cyprus) Session in honor of Tareq Ismael

  • Session 6B – Histories and Practices of Cultural Exploitation

    Chair : Claire Begbie (Concordia University) Fatima Bahja (University of Texas at Austin) – Instagram Cooking as Affective Practice: Globalizing the Arab Home through Mama’s Voice Pelle Valentin Olsen (University of Bergen) – Idle Days and Nights: Leisure, Entertainment, and Everyday Life in Mandate Iraq Iman Hamam (South-centered Image and Media Association) – The Myth […]

  • ROUNDTABLE: MEMORIAL TO TAREQ AND JACQUELINE ISMAEL

    Sponsored by the University of Calgary Faculty of Social Work – In Memory of Dr. Jacqueline S. Ismael & Dr. Tareq Y. Ismael (A light lunch will be provided to participants and attendees of this session.)

  • Session 7B – Géopolitique des migrations artistiques en région MENA: Panel 1

    Chair : Patricia Caillé (Université de Strasbourg) Azza Chaabouni (ISAMM – Université de la Manouba) – Création en mouvement: Trajectoires migratoires et pratiques cinématographiques au sein du collectif Rawiyat-SIF. Le cas des réalisatrices: Erige Sehiri (France-Tunisie) et Zoulikha Tahar (Algérie) Patricia Caillé (Université de Strasbourg, LinCS UMR 7069) – Migration and Film Training among Third-Generation […]

  • Session 7A – Genocide, Sumud, and Empire

    Chair and Discussant: Yousef Baker (California State University, Long Beach) Salam Mir (Independent Researcher) – Israel’s Genocide against Gaza Tahrir Hamdi (Arab Open University, Jordan) – Palestinian Sumud: Survival, Resistance, and Hope for Liberation Ibrahim G. Aoudé (University of Hawai‘i) – Palestine, Genocide, and Empire

  • KEYNOTE ADDRESS : Richard Falk (University of California, Santa Barbara)

    Moderator: Jenann Ismael (Johns Hopkins University) Sponsored by the University of Calgary Faculty of Social Work – In Memory of Dr. Jacqueline S. Ismael & Dr. Tareq Y. Ismael Richard Falk is an international law and international relations scholar who taught at Princeton University for forty years. Since 2002 he has lived in Santa Barbara, California, […]

  • Session 8A – Roundtable : Genocide in Gaza : Eyewitness Testimony, Legal Framing, and Paths to Accountability

    Chair: Samir Abed-Rabbo (Cambridge Center for Palestine Studies) Khalil Abu Shammala (Palestinian human rights activist, Gaza)  Mona Ali Khalil (Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict) Sonia Boulos (Universidad Antonio de Nebrija, Madrid) Francesca P. Albanese (United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since […]

  • FILM SCREENING and EXHIBITION OPENING at Casa Árabe

    Multimedia arts Rehab Nazzal’s photographic and video exhibition, Driving in Palestine / التحرّك في فلسطین curated by Stefan St-Laurent (SAW Centre, Ottawa) and sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts, will be on display beginning on June 12 at the nearby Casa Árabe. Dr. Nazzal will be present at the Opening for Q&A. (Refreshments […]