"Explore how migration shapes our world – join SOAN 242 this fall!"

"SOAM Works in Progress returns this Fall 2025! Explore the latest research from our department."

Join us at “In Solidarity with Palestine: Labour and Health Workers in Canada” by Hassan Husseini and DR. Najib Safieddine on Monday, September 8, 2025 | 5:00 - 6:00 pm in West Hall Auditorium A.

Join us on Monday to discuss the Canadian labour and health workers solidarity with Palestine with Hassan Husseini حسن الحسيني and Dr. Najib Safieddine Faculty of Arts and Sciences at AUB AUB Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies

Don’t Miss Out! This talk traces how festivals, distributors, and corporations commodify Iranian films within the logics of neoliberal multiculturalism, thus embedding politics into their global circulation. 📷 Sept. 23 - 6:00 PM 📷 Basile Antoine Meguerdiche Conf. Hall, IFI Aud

Don’t Miss Out! Happening tomorrow! "Distribution Stories: Iranian Cinema in the Global Film Market" by Prof. Blake Atwood. 📷 September 23, 2025, at 6:00 PM 📷 Basile Antoine Meguerdiche Conference Hall (IFI Auditorium)

Join us for “Our Stories, Our Archives” September 30 at 4:00 - 6:00 PM West Hall - Auditorium B aub.edu.lb/fas/soam/Event…...

Against Symbolic Liberalism: A Plea for Dialogical Sociology, the latest book by Sari Hanafi, professor of sociology and director of the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies at AUB, has just been released in English, Arabic, and Persian, with additional translations to

A two day conference on “Violence and Visuality” you won’t want to miss! Dar El Nimer & AUB West Hall October 24–25, 2025

Join us for Looking Otherwise: Visual Reorientations Against Violence — a keynote lecture by Dr. Thy Phu, Distinguished Professor of Race, Diaspora, and Visual Justice at the University of Toronto. 📷 Friday, October 24, 2025 📷 5:00 PM 📷 Dar El Nimer Auditorium

Visions of Capture is curated by the Cinematheque Beirut team as part of the Violence and Visuality conference. Location: Arab Image Foundation Auditorium | Aresco Center, Justinian, Beirut Date & Time: October 25, 2025 | 5-7PM

Happening tomorrow! Make sure to pass by and join us at the conference! aub.edu.lb/fas/soam/Pages…

Don’t miss out this interesting lecture by Dr. Thy Phu tomorrow!

Join us at “Virtual Returns: Practicing Return in Palestinian Moving Images” under New Trends in Global Film Studies series by Kareem Estephan on Tuesday, October 28, 2025 | 6:00 pm in Asfari Conference Hall.

We are pleased to announce the book launch of "Against Symbolic Liberalism: A Plea for Dialogical Sociology" by Dr. Sari Hanafi. 📅 Thursday, November 13, 2025 | 🕔 5:00–7:00 PM 📍 Basile Antoine Meguerdiche Conference Hall (IFI, B1)

Join us as Ghassan Hage presents his latest work, Pierre Bourdieu’s Political Economy of Being, followed by a dynamic discussion. 📅Wednesday, Dec 10 | 5:00 PM 📍AUB – Asfari Conference Room 🔗l.aub.edu/rRvLH

The Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies invites you to the book launch of Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine. 🗓Thursday, January 15, 2026 🕔5:00 PM 📍Asfari Conference Room, AUB 🔗l.aub.edu/N5qAJ #soam #book #fas

📢 We’re hiring! AUB Anthropology is looking for a part-time Event Coordinator to support Anthropology Day and a Lebanon-wide high school competition (Grades 10–11). For more details: aub.edu.lb/fas/soam/Docum…

Happening tomorrow!