Illinois Network on Islam and Muslim Societies
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All Day 2/28/2025 - 3/1/2025University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign -
CSAMES Event: "On Translating Arabic Poetry," A Discussion with Huda Fakhreddine and Eric Calderwood
4:00 pm 3/4/2025Illini Union Bookstore 2nd floor Author's Corner 809 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820 -
4:00 pm 3/25/20251080 LCLB- Lucy Ellis Lounge & Conference Center 707 Mathew Ave UrbanaAbstract: Of the many beautiful objects associated with Madinat al-Zahra and the Cordoban Umayyad caliphate, perhaps none are as celebrated as a series of ivory pyxides and caskets produced for members of the royal family. Several of them were made for royal mothers, formerly enslaved concubines who earned their freedom by bearing the caliph's children. Caliphal concubines
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5:00 pm 3/27/2025112 Gregory Hall, 810 S Wright St. ChampaignDirectors: Sarah Ema Friedland, Rami Younis It is a story of a city that once connected Palestine to the world - what it once was, what it is now, and what it could have become. A discussion by Professor Laura Goffman, Department of History at the Univesity of Illinois followed this.