Events 2006-07

-Arab Film Festival at Stanford
September 11 & 12.
www.aff.org.

-"Voices of Kurdistan" at the San Francisco World Music Festival.
September 24-October 7.
www.sfworldmusicfestival.org.

-Iranian Book Reading, Let Me Tell You Where I've Been: New Writing by Women of the Iranian Diaspora.
October 11, 4pm, Bender Room, Bing Wing, Green Library.

- Anwar Ibrahim, "Democracy and the Muslim World", sponsored by the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, and the Southeast Asia Forum at the Walter H.Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.
October 11, 4:30pm, Bechtel Conference Center.

-Reza Aslan, " Welcome to the Islamic Reformation!"
Author of No god but God: the Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam. Booksigning after the lecture.
October 24, 7:30pm, Kresge Auditorium.

-Daniel Cohn-Bendit, "Europe now: Integration, Society, and Islam in the new Europe", sponsored by the Forum on Contemporary Europe, and the Woods Institute.
November 1, 5:30pm, Bechtel Conference Center.

-Alain Bauer, "Criminal and Terrorist Threats, Evolutions and Ruptures: the French Perspective".
November 27, 5:15pm, Pigott Hall, 260-113.
co-sponsored by the Forum on Contemporary Europe, and the France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies.

-Listen to Reza Aslan October 24 lecture on Stanford on iTunes U: http://itunes.stanford.edu/
Go to Heard on Campus -> Visiting Lecturers and Speeches.

-Olivier Roy, "Islam in Europe"
January 23, 7:30pm, Cubberley Auditorium.
co-sponsored by the Forum on Contemporary Europe.

-Olivier Roy, " The Phenomenon of Conversion: from Christianity to Islam, and from Islam to Christianity. A comparison between Salafism and Evangelism".
January 24, noon seminar, location tba.
co-sponsored by the Forum on Contemporary Europe.

-Vali Nasr, "The Shia Revival and Politics of Change in the Middle East".
February 1, 7:30pm, Kresge Auditorium.

-Rajko Grlic, filmmaker, "Karaula" (Border Post)
February 6, 7pm, Cubberley Auditorium.
co-sponsored by the Mediterranean Studies Forum, the Film and Media Studies Program, CREEES and the Forum on Contemporary Europe.

February 07: ISLAM AWARENESS MONTH 2007 presents

“Muslim Women in the Sciences and Engineering”

Despite obstacles, many Muslim women domestically and globally have opted to challenge gender-based discrimination to enter male-dominated fields in the Sciences and Engineering. Join us for a panel featuring three dynamic Muslim women who have excelled in their fields of civil engineering, science research and medicine.

Panelists:

Dina El-Nakhal- Senior Transportation Engineer CalTrans

Dr. Arej Sawani- cardiology, Ellis Hospital & St. Clares Hospital, New York

Ghofrane Benghanem- Biomedical Researcher Merck, 2006 Rensselaer Senior Named One of Top 10 College Women by Glamour Magazine

Venue:

Oak West, Tressider, 2nd Floor

6-8 PM

Sunday, 18th February

-Robert Crews, "From Holy War to Holy Alliance:Islam and the Russian Empire", March 1, 7pm, Pigott Hall, 260-113.
co-sponsored by CREEES, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, and CEAS, Center for East Asian Studies.

-Congratulations toDavid Siddhartha Patel! Recipient of the 2006 MESA Student Paper Prize for his essay "Islam, Identity and Electoral Coordination in Iraq".

-Shibley Telhami "What Arabs Think and Does it Matter?", March 20, 12:00 pm, Encina East, 3rd Floor, Daniel and Nancy Okimoto Conference Room.
Research seminar co-sponsored by CDDRL, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law.
http://cddrl.stanford.edu/events/what_arabs_think_and_does_it_matter/

-Zifa-Alua Auezova "Sufism in Central Asia: History and Revival in post-Soviet period ", April 5, 7:30pm, Building 60, Rm 61H.
co-sponsored by the Silk Road Foundation, University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, Miami University, University of Washington in St Louis, Indiana University.

-April 26th, Katif/Jarrar, at the Stanford Bookstore.

-Rome Rather Than You, by Tariq Teguia, Algerian movie at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
co-sponsored by Mediterranean Studies Forum, and the Forum on Contemporary Europe.

-An evening with Egyptian Director Marwan Hamed.
special screening of his award-winning short film "Lily".
co-sponsored by the Middle East Collection of the Stanford University Libraries.
May 7, 6PM, Building 300-300.

-Yasmina Khadra, "Algeria, Islam and Modernity".
Acclaimed Algerian Author of The Sirens of Baghdad and The Swallows of Kabul.
co-sponsored by Programme Synergie (Service du Livre de l'Ambassade de France et Delegation generale de l'Alliance francaise aux Etats-Unis).
May 8, 4PM, History Department, 200-002 (in FRENCH)

--"The State of Middle East Studies: Knowledge Production in an Age of Empire", co-sponsored by the Cultural and Social Anthropology Middle East Research Group, the Culture Club, the Billie Achilles Fund, MSAN, and the Bechtel International Center.
May 17, 9:30AM-5PM, Assembly Room, Bechtel International Center.

-"Rethinking the Islamic Library: African Archives, Scholars and the Public":
Sean Hanretta, Shamil Jeppie, Rudiger Seesemann, Butch Ware, Abdu Salaam, co-sponsored by the Center for African Studies.
May 15, 2PM-7PM, Bolivar House.

-Behnam Sadeki, "The Qur'an: Quantitative Studies in Style and Chronology".
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford.
May 17, 7:00PM, Pigott Hall, 260-113.

-Emine Fetvaci, "Eunuch Mehmed Agha and the Patronage of Islamic Art at the Ottoman Empire".
Stanford University.
May 21, 4:30PM, History Bldg, 200-307.

-Listen to Reza Aslan, Vali Nasr, and Olivier Roy's lectures on Stanford on iTunes U: http://itunes.stanford.edu/
Go to Heard on Campus -> Visiting Lecturers and Speeches.

-Art of being Tuareg, Sahara Nomads in a Modern World,
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, free admission, May 30-September 2.
museum.stanford.edu