“US Imams and Efforts to Prevent a Professional Epidemic in a Pandemic”
with Nancy Khalil (University of Michigan)
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with Nancy Khalil (University of Michigan)
In collaboration with the Fall for the Book Festival
The Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University and The Maydan, the Center’s public-facing scholarship platform, present the fourth annual Graduate Student Book Review Colloquium on Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies to be held on November 20, 2020, in collaboration with the Fall for the Book Festival. The colloquium will be between 9:30 am and 5:30 pm (EDT) on Zoom.
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with Günhan Börekçi (Central European University)
Theme: Social justice, Anti-racism, and Inclusion
Mason President Gregory Washington will host a Freedom and Learning Forum with a theme of racial justice, anti-racism, and inclusion. Panelists will Provost Mark Ginsburg, CHSS Dean Ann Ardis, Faculty Affairs Director of Diversity, Inclusion and Well-Being Milli Rivera, University Life Associate Dean Creston Lynch, and Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence Task Force co-chairs Shernita Parker and Wendi Manuel-Scott.
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The Arabic program at George Mason University will host a discussion with Ambassador Alberto M. Fernandez on November 12 @1:30.
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w/ Adom Getachew, the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.
Please join us virtually for this week's CSC talk, which will feature Adom Getachew presenting her work on the anti-colonial project of critics, intellectuals, and statesmen such as Nnamdi Azikiwe, W.E.B. DuBois and Kwame Nkrumah and the emergence of a right to self-determination as a distinctively anti-colonial ideal.
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The Arabic program at George Mason University will host a discussion with Al-Jazeera.net Washington chief correspondent Mohamed Elmenshaway on November 5 @1:30.
Details »with Anna Piela (Northwestern University) & Joanna Krotofil (Jagiellonian University)