Portland State University Middle East Studies Center Lecture Series

Kamal Abdel-Malek discusses his anthology of translated excerpts of travel writing from Arabic, portraying the many faces of the love-hate ties between the Arab world and the United States.

A panel discussion on Turkish protests.

This multi-generic book moves back and forth between Amitav Ghosh's experience living in small villages and towns in the Nile Delta and his reconstruction of a Jewish trader and his slave's lives in the eleventh century.

A look across the layered landscape of the Morea, the medieval Peloponnese, to investigate the relationship between villages and monasteries.

From "Shock and Awe" to drone strikes, Therese Saliba looks at the real effects on women's lives from a decade of military interventions in the Middle East and the implications for women's human rights.

The political upheavals in the Arab republics since 2011 have shaken old political hierarchies and opened elections to once-banned groups. Because the republics sought support from minorities, these revolutions have put the latter in a difficult position

Conflicting positions on Iran stem from the fact that Iran itself is divided—a nation at once modern and medieval.

Written by Abu'l Qasim Firdausi at the end of the tenth century, the Shahnameh, the Persian Book of Kings, traces the course of Persian history from Creation to the mid-seventh century.

The Middle East Studies Center's monthly brownbag Lunch and Learn series provides an opportunity for the campus community to learn more about the Middle East through informal presentations and discussions with scholars and experts.

This illustrated talk discussed the Central Asian and Afghan origins of the Mughal Empire of India (1526-1739/1858) as revealed in the Turki or Chaghatai Turkish autobiography of the founder of the Empire, Zahir al-Din Muhammad Babur (1483-1530).

A discussion of Tunisia's first post-transition election following the ratification of its constitution by the constituent assembly.

A look at some of the continuities and connections between earlier and contemporary Iranian Women's writing.

Miko Peled is an Israeli writer and activist living in San Diego. His book _The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine_ follows the development of the Israeli Palestinian issue from a national and personal perspective.

A panel discussion centering on the film, The Suffering Grasses, directed by Iara Lee, which aims to give voice to those most affected by the violence in Syria.

A roundtable discussion with the Readers of Homer, students, faculty and community participants, following a marathon Iliad reading.

An informal discussion of contemporary Tunisia

Few would have ever anticipated that events 'triggering' the 'Arab Spring' would have come from Tunisia, and fewer still would have thought Algeria would weather the subsequent storm.

In October 2012 Hellenic Studies was honored to welcome the Onassis Scholar Program to Oregon with a three-lecture series by Professor Dimitrios Tsougarakis, renowned scholar of Byzantine history from the Ionian University, Greece.

Does territory exist over which sovereignty has been sought politically or militarily, or which would be insisted upon in the course of current territorial negotiations, solely because of its access to water sources?

Critical observation of Gulf cities' development in the last decade reveals a number of architectural and urban paradigms. Through an elaborate attempt to construct a new contemporary identity within a knowledge-based approach to urban development, Doha emerges as a new architectural and urban utopia. A critical reading of this model suggests a number of architectural and urban challenges. This presentation will trace the change from resource and industrial economies to a creative and knowledge-based economy, a transformation which has been seen as inevitable change for Gulf cities in a rapidly approaching post-carbon world.