When: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Where: White 107 Lecture HallMore Info
Description: Avi Mograbi and Ram Loevy will discuss Israeli documentaries and their politics of representation.Respondents: Rebecca Stein, Yaron Shemer, Shai GinsburgContact: shaig [Email: shaig #AT# duke.edu ]
Co-sponsors: Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Asian Pacific Studies Institute, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University Center for International Studies, Program in Arts of (…)

  art, culture, Middle East

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A Mind at Peace, translated into English 60 years after its original publication.

On his recent visit to Turkey, President Barack Obama was presented with an English translation of A Mind At Peace, during a meeting with Deniz Baykal, the leader of Turkey’s opposition Republican People’s Party, in Ankara, Turkey, on Monday.

Erdağ Göknar’s translation of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar’s 1949 novel, published by Archipelago books in (…)

  art, Asia, Barack Obama, culture, Erdag Goknar, Europe, foreign language, Middle East, Turkey

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When: Thursday, March 26, 2009 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Where: John Hope Franklin Center 028
Cost: Free, open to the public
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Description: The University Seminar on Global Governance and Democracy presents:”Islamic Party Participation in Parliamentary Elections” – Charles Kurzman – University of North Carolina

Co-sponsors: Duke University Center for International Studies and John Hope Franklin Center
Contact Information: Smith, Dan 668-1663

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  democracy, Global Governance and Democracy, globalization, governance, Middle East, University Seminar

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When: Monday, March 23, 2009 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Where: John Hope Franklin Center 240
Description: South African musician Roger Lucey’s recordings and performances were routinely censored under apartheid. State security police aimed to destroy his music career, though he remained a celebrated voice of the liberation struggle in the singer-songwriter and rock music traditions. A prominent human rights activist, Ferhat Tunç is one of the iconic (…)

  Africa, art, Concilium on Southern Africa, culture, human rights, Middle East, Turkey

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The cover of ‘A Mind at Peace’

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar’s A Mind at Peace, originally published in 1949, has been described as “a magnum opus, a Turkish Ulysses, and a lyrical homage to Istanbul,” but until now, it has only been enjoyed by those with a command of Turkish.

With the support of the Duke University Center for International Studies, Erdağ Göknar, Assistant (…)

  art, Asia, culture, Duke University, Erdag Goknar, Europe, foreign language, Middle East, Turkey

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When: Tuesday, February 3, 2009 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Where: Perkins Library Rare Book Room
Cost: Free
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Description: PETER COLE, a 2007 MacArthur Foundation Fellow, is the author of three books of poems, most recently Things on Which I’ve Stumbled (New Directions). His many volumes of translations from Hebrew and Arabic include The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain (Princeton), J’accuse, by Aharon (…)

  art, culture, globalization, Middle East

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Professor Sattar Jawad, whom the Duke University Center for International Studies hosted as a scholar-at-risk from 2005 to 2007, discusses the ongoing campaign of anti-intellectual violence in Iraq and the devestating impact it is having on Iraq’s universities and the education of future generations in the current issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Now a visiting fellow at the University of (…)

  conflict, diplomacy, ethics, foreign language, human rights, Middle East, Scholar-at-Risk

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• “ACC universities collaborate on international education” A recap of the 2006 Atlantic Coast Conference International Academic Collaborative (ACC-IAC) meeting, held at Duke University on Nov. 20-21.
• “Duke Faculty and Staff seek training to increase empathy, Intercultural Competency, towards international students” by Jennifer Prather.
• “Iraq’s neighbors should help broker reconciliation in Iraq” by visiting Iraqi Professor Abdul Sattar Jawad.
• “Iraq’s deadliest zone: schools” (…)

  Ariel Dorfman, Global Perspectives, Middle East

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• Duke and DUCIS launch new Global Health Institute
• Shakespeare in Iraq (News re. Abdul Sattar Jawad, DUCIS visiting scholar and professor from Iraq)
• “Deemed exports rules cause concern for Duke and other research universities” by Jennifer Prather
• “South African activist brings an HIV positive message: We can win the battle against AIDS” by Jennifer Prather
• Ariel Dorman’s Play ‘Picasso’s Closet’ opens (News re. Artist-in-Residence, (…)

  Africa, Ariel Dorfman, Concilium on Southern Africa, Foreign Language and Area Studies, international studies, Middle East

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