Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Friday, January 31, 2025

- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
<SAS Friday Talks @ 11> Sonal Mithal, Lucknow Queerscapes: Architecture and the Colonial Archive
- Lecture

Thursday, February 6, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Illini Union Bookstore 2nd floor Author's Corner 809 S. Wright St.
Dr. Tarek El Ariss. Book talk on Water on Fire: A Memoir of War
- Lecture

Friday, February 21, 2025

- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
<SAS Friday Talks @ 11> Sana Saboowala, Stress-Related Narratives in Oral Histories with South Asian Immigrants to the United States
- Lecture
- 2:00 pm
- 404 David Kinley Hall 1407 W Gregory Dr. Urbana
Dr. Marwa Shalaby. “How Parliaments Matter: Policy and Opposition in the Middle East’s Authoritarian Legislatures.”
- Lecture

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 1000 Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St. Urbana
Dr. Ussama Makdisi "Why is Palestine Important?"
- Ceremony/Service

Friday, February 28, 2025

- All Day
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The Multilingual Mediterranean: Winter 2025 Workshop
- Conference/Workshop

Saturday, March 1, 2025

- All Day
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The Multilingual Mediterranean: Winter 2025 Workshop
- Conference/Workshop

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Illini Union Bookstore 2nd floor Author's Corner 809 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820
Dr. Huda Fakhreddine "On translating Arabic Poetry,"
- Ceremony/Service

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 1080 LCLB- Lucy Ellis Lounge & Conference Center 707 Mathew Ave Urbana
Abigail Balbale. “‘The sight that I offer is the fairest of sights’: Ivory, Concubines, and Transcultural Exchange in Umayyad Cordoba.”
- Lecture

Thursday, March 27, 2025

- 5:00 pm
- TBD
Film screening "LYD"
- Performance

Friday, March 28, 2025

- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
<SAS Friday Talks @ 11> Megha Anwer, Screening Precarity: Pathaan and the Muslim Question in Neoliberal India
- Lecture

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

- 12:00 pm
Dr. Nadim Bawalsa "Book talk on Transnational Palestine."
- Lecture

Thursday, April 10, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Lincoln Hall 702 S. Wright St. Urbana Room 1090
Dr. Lauren Osborne. Book talk on Hearing Islam: The Sounds of a Global Religious Tradition,
- Lecture

Friday, April 25, 2025

- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
<SAS Friday Talks @ 11> Deepasri Baul, The Festival, the Mohalla and the City: Bakr-Id Riots and the politics of urban space in Delhi, 1924-26
- Lecture

Friday, May 2, 2025

- 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
- TBD
Dr. Michelle Campos and Dr. Charles Anderson. “Palestine in the World Roundtable.”
- Lecture