CIMS Friday Seminars: A lecture series on the Middle East and Islam.
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September
15. Diru al-niya! On Football, Religion and Politics in Morocco. Bjørn Olav Utvik (University of Oslo), – , Harriet Holter Room 201.
22. Reclaiming History. People, Power and Archives. Khaled Fahmy (Tufts University) – Deichman Bjørvika, co-hosted, as part of Masahat Festival on Arabic Art and Culture
29. A Tale of Three Brothers: Ezra, Me’ir, and Hayyawi Sawda’i and a History of Cinema in Iraq. Pelle Valentine Olsen (University of Bergen), – , Harriet Holter Room 201.
October
13. We can smell the arak from the beginning of the alley. "Useful sentences" from a Turkish-Arabic phrasebook of 1765. Stephan Guth and Mustafa Akay (University of Oslo), – , Harriet Holter Room 201.
27. Greeks or Turks? Conflicts concerning the identity of the Muslim minority in Greek Thrace. Vemund Aarbakke (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), – , Harriet Holter Room 201.
November
24. How to understand change in pre-modern Islamic law, Eirik Hovden (University of Bergen), – , Harriet Holter Room 201.
December
8. Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said. Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal, 1859–1906. Book Launch. Lucia Carminati (University of Oslo), – , TBA.
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