🎉MEDLI Summer 2025 applications are now OPEN!🎉 Visit our website for more information and to apply today! medli.wisc.edu #onlinelearning #middleeast #mediterraneanculture #middleeasternculture #middleeasternlanguages #Summer2025 #arabic #hebrew #persian #turkish

🐸🐸Join us for a daylong in-person workshop for K-12 pre-service and current educators, librarians, and children’s literature enthusiasts featuring: children’s book authors, Lunch and refreshments, Hotel scholarships available, $25 registration fee. europe.wisc.edu

We are excited to unveil our Spring 2025 Lecture Series coming up soon! Free and open to the public. For details go to shorturl.at/xA0va.

Check out this article about an event we recently cosponsored with the Wisconsin International Resource Consortium (WIRC), fascinating and well attended! shorturl.at/vIIRM For more about WIRC, including upcoming events, go to: wirc.international.wisc.edu

Fun times at Pinney Library yesterday at the Children's African Story Hour, reading "My Father's Shop"! Children of all ages enjoyed the reading, learning about Morocco, dancing, eating Moroccan food, and creating rooster puppets. Cosponsored this with African Studies Program at UW-Madison .

#Employment New York University invites applications for the position of Assistant Director to join the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies. mesana.org/resources-and-…

Egyptian Author Youssef Rakha will discuss his latest book “The Dissenters” on February 10, 9:30 am at Ingraham 206. Free and open to the public. For more info: shorturl.at/hIqdT

"Working Women in Jordan: Education, Migration, and Aspiration" go.wisc.edu/niceonzoom February 7, 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Dr. Fida Adely will discuss her new book which examines the internal migration of university-education women in Jordan for work. shorturl.at/yCmUt

"Living Fossils: Anatomies of Race and Reproduction in Modern Egypt" A History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building (455 N Park St) February 7, 2025 @ 12– 1:30 pm For more info: shorturl.at/AJWow

Zaynab El Bernoussi of the Africa Institute will be speaking on "The China-Morocco Relation: From Third World Internationalism to Strategic Hedging" on Wednesday, March 5, 12 noon at Ingraham Hall, Room 336. shorturl.at/NDfNC

An Evening with Amer Zahr: Being Arab in America Shannon Hall, UW-Madison Memorial Union Tuesday, February 4th, 2025 7-8:30 pm shorturl.at/jVuHT

Egyptian Author Youssef Rakha will discuss his latest book “The Dissenters” on February 10, 9:30 am at Ingraham 206. For more info: shorturl.at/uRoId

Hakan Özlen, a doctoral student in the Department of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, will present his research: "From Plotinus to Rumi: Neoplatonism in Anatolian Sufi Thought" Friday, February 7, 1 pm, Memorial Union or Online shorturl.at/43pHc

"Being Sufi in Central Asia" Van Hise Hall, Room 1418, 1220 Linden Dr., Madison, Wisconsin February 27, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Speaker: Professor Benjamin Gatling (George Mason University) For more information: shorturl.at/KWaSW

This coming Monday! You don't want to miss this fascinating lecture with Professor Lisa Bhungalia: "Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine" In-person in Ingraham 206, February 10, at 12 noon. shorturl.at/hKSD5

Today at 12 noon, in-person at Ingraham 206! It's not too late to register for this important and topical lecture. A delicious vegetarian Middle Eastern lunch will be served. For more info and to register: shorturl.at/F3NZQ

Hybrid Lecture: “I am not afraid of the exam; I am afraid of my mom”: The Role of Family in Shaping Children’s High-Stakes Testing Experiences-Insights from Istanbul and Hatay Friday, February 14, 2025 1 PM CT For more info: shorturl.at/PmGlx

It was a great turnout for yesterday's MESP lecture by Professor Lisa Bhungalia, discussing "Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine". Our next lecture is on February 24: "Palestine and Arab-Israeli Peace". For more info and to register: tinyurl.com/3sxbd9bb

Next Monday! You don't want to miss this fascinating and timely lecture, "Palestine and Arab-Israeli Peace" with Dana El Kurd (University of Richmond). For more information and to register go to: mideast.wisc.edu/.../palestine-…

We are excited to launch our new Bluesky account! We will be sunsetting our X account here, so please follow us on Bluesky for updates on news and events: mesp-uwmadison.bsky.social