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Roger Owen, My Mentor and My Friend

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It is impossible to sum up the life of Professor Roger Owen in a few paragraphs; even Roger found it difficult to edit his life in his wonderful memoir. I will focus on being his student and then his friend, and how he taught me how to pass forward his...

Reflecting on the Many Faces of Mecca, the Lived City

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“Mecca is lived, experienced, and documented differently by different people,” began Rosie Bsheer, Assistant Professor of History at Harvard and author of the forthcoming “Archive Wars: Spectacle, Speculation, and the Politics of History in Saudi Arabia,”...

Arabic Classes and Classics in the Opera House

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The Committee on Medieval Studies presents Samuel England Associate Professor of Arabic, University of Wisconsin-Madison The officials who designed Egypt’s Opera House in the 19th century predicted that it would anchor the performing arts economy in the...

'The Baghdad Clock': A Book Talk with the Author and Translator

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The Ce nter for Middle Eastern Studies presents Sha had Al Rawi, author of The Baghdad Clock, short-listed for the 2018 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF), and Luke Leafgren, translator The Baghdad Clock About The Baghdad Clock: It's 1991 and...

Jerusalem: City of the Book

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The Center for the Study of World Religions & CMES present Benjamin Balint, writer based in Jerusalem, and Merav Mack, Research fellow, Truman Institute for Peace, Hebrew University of Jerusalem What might it look like to see Jerusalem, with its cross...