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News & Happenings News & Happenings The King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies Newsletter Upcoming Events Page 2 Recent Events Page 6 Faculty News Page 10 Graduate News Page 16 King Fahd Center Undergraduate News for Middle East Studies Page 18 at the University of Alumni News Arkansas Page 21 Volume 3 • Issue 1 October 2014 202 Old Main, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701• http://mest.uark.edu • [email protected] • 479-575-2175 King Fahd Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Arkansas We certainly have not been lacking for headlines of UPCOMING: late in our part of the world. When we held a King Fahd Center forum in late August we contemplated MESA ANNUAL MEETING the ‘worst summer in history.’ Some of us came up November 21-25, 2014 with alternate dates, but few could argue that the geographic spread of civil strife, military activity, King Fahd Center faculty, students and alumni will be sectarian-national antipathy, and the destruction of attending and presenting their work at the upcoming human life, cultural heritage and the environment Middle East Studies Association annual meeting to be reached startling new levels in terms of scope, held in Washington, D.C. intensity and simultaneity. Ahmet Serdar Akturk (PhD/HIST 2013) ‘Kurdish Nationalism Our mission remains ongoing: to teach about the and Clothing Reform in the Post-Ottoman Era’ Middle East and Islamic world, to humanize its people, Sanket Desai (PhD/HIST) ‘Just Keep the Sheep Thieves Away: to describe realities without veiling them, from the Minority Challenges to Iraqi Nation-State Building, 1933-1945’ vantage points of our various disciplines and years of experience on the ground. Above all, we keep going Manal Al-Natour (PhD/CLCS 2012) ‘Women “in the Crossfire”: back where we can, when we can. Center affiliated The Syrian Revolution 2011’ faculty/students traveled this summer to Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Iraq, Bosnia and Asaad Al-Saleh (PhD/CLCS 2010) ‘Serving the Regime: Bangladesh. We continue to explore options for Buthaina Shabaan and the Legacy of a Public Intellectual undergraduate study abroad and to weigh the viability Siding Against the Syrian Revolution’ of graduate student and faculty research. Nadine Sinno (PhD/CLCS 2009) ‘Lebanon, the Land of Milk and Honey, Tabbouleh, and Coke: Orientalist, Local, and We endeavor to provide fresh critical perspectives Global Discourses in Alexandra Chreiteh’s Always Coca-Cola’ on current developments and historical roots, and to highlight the power of creative cultural expression. Ted Swedenburg (ANTH) ‘The New Social Media Archive of So far this semester we have hosted a visiting lecture Maghrebi Popular Music’ by Professor David Romano, an expert on the Kurds. Many of us have already presented papers and talks Wawan Yulianto (PhD/CLCS) ‘Al-Shanfara’s Lamiyyat al-Arab’ at conferences and symposia in this country and abroad. In November we will host Aizzah Fatimah who will perform ‘Dirty Paki Lingerie.’ Her 1-woman show speaks in comic tones to the ongoing journey of Muslims throughout the American social landscape – reminding us that there is much beyond daily headlines to which we also should pay attention. Dr. Joel Gordon, Director King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies Cover: Tapa Maranjan, Kabul, Afghanistan Photo courtesy of Khalid Ahmadzai Page 2 http://mest.uark.edu • 479-575-2175 • [email protected] King Fahd Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Arkansas UPCOMING: STUDENT FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES The King Fahd Center offers financial support to advanced undergraduate MEST majors who have demonstrated a serious commitment to study and excellent performance in the classroom, as well as graduate students at the MA and PhD level working in academic disciplines with a focus in Middle East/Islamic Studies. Applications and further details can be found on the King Fahd Center website. MEST Summer Study Abroad Scholarship Graduate Summer Research Grants Deadline February 1, 2015 February 6, 2015 The King Fahd Center offers study abroad scholarships Graduate Students working in Middle East Studies may for undergraduate students majoring in Middle East apply for funding to support summer research or language Studies. A limited number of grants will be available on a study. Such funds are awarded on a competitive basis competitive basis. Scholarship applicants must declare a and may provide only partial support, based upon the MEST major prior to application. Applicants must secure submitted budget. positive recommendations from two faculty members; at least one recommender should be a faculty member Conference Travel Grants affiliated with the MEST program. Financial need will be Applications accepted on a rolling basis considered in awarding funding. Any Graduate Student funded by the King Fahd Center MEST Undergraduate Academic Year Scholarship and/or working on a relevant geo-cultural topic under Deadline March 13, 2015 the supervision of a MEST faculty member may apply for travel funds to support participation (presentation of a The King Fahd Center offers scholarships for advanced paper/poster or participation in a workshop/roundtable) undergraduate MEST majors who have demonstrated a at an academic conference. Proposals will be judged on serious commitment to study and excellent performance merit and the amount of support will be determined by in the classroom. To be eligible, scholarship applicants available funds. must have a minimum of 3.5 in MEST core courses and 3.25 in overall GPA, must attain junior status by the beginning Complete applications include: of the specified funding period and must declare a MEST major prior to application. • Statement of Purpose indicating the nature of the project, relevance to academic program, and Applicants must secure positive recommendations from anticipated outcome; two faculty members; at least one recommender should • Any relevant letters of invitation or affiliation with be a faculty member affiliated with the MEST program. an academic/research institution, or application Transfer students are also eligible and should solicit letters to and (if possible) acceptance into conference/ from professors at their prior institution who can speak to academic program; their interest and academic potential. Financial need will • A Proposed Budget outlining expected expenses; be considered in awarding funding. • Indication of support from any other source; • A formal Recommendation Letter from the applicant’s MEST faculty advisor. http://mest.uark.edu • 479-575-2175 • [email protected] Page 3 King Fahd Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Arkansas UPCOMING: COMMEDIENNE AIZZAH FATIMA AND DIRTY PAKI LINGERIE The King Fahd Center is pleased to welcome writer and Dirty Paki Lingerie will be performed in Giffels Auditorium actress Aizzah Fatima to the University of Arkansas for (201 Old Main) on Thursday, November 6th at 7pm, and is one-woman comedy play entitled Dirty Paki Lingerie. free and open to the public. Set in post 9/11 America, Dirty Paki Lingerie depicts the In addition to her performance on November 6th, Fatima stories of six Pakistani-American Muslim women ranging will also take part in a special Nadi Cinema screening of in age from a six year old girl to a sixty-five year old director Chris Morris’ 2010 filmFour Lions, a ‘smart, pitch- woman at the chaotic juncture of two different cultures. black comedy’ (Rotten Tomatoes), which saw only limited Cross-cultural sparks fly and preconceptions about release in the US, about a group of hapless British jihadis Muslim women, sex, and politics are hilariously shattered set out to wreak havoc in their native country. in the show The Wall Street Journal says “Breaks down stereotypes of Muslim women in America” and that Fatima will also speak with students in a workshop that reviewers call a “must-see” production. Playing to sold- will further the discussion on religious, gender and out houses in NYC, Toronto, Pakistan, and Edinburgh ethnic stereotypes in America, and the difficulties and Fringe Festival, Dirty Paki Lingerie transcends boundaries opportunities in taking a show like Dirty Paki Lingerie to of culture, religion, and gender, moving and entertaining audiences abroad. The workshop will also take place on audiences with its unique and universal appeal. A rich, Thursday, November 6th before the play’s performance; sexy, and infectiously entertaining mosaic of the sublime, time and location to be announced. the comic, the poetic, and the political. Aizzah Fatima is a writer and actress who has most recently appeared in Half Hearted (Cherry Lane Theater), #serials@theflea (The Flea Theater), Play by Play:Rendezvous (Stageworks, Hudson), Circumcaedere (LABrynth Ensemble), Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues (V-Day 2010), Seven by Paula Cizmar, Catherine Filloux, Gail Kriegel, Carol K. Mack, Ruth Margraff, Anna Deavere Smith and Susan Yankowitz (Hostos Cultural Arts Center), the interactive musical Bollywood Wedding, and Ripe For The Picking, an original ensemble piece about human rights violations around the world. She can be seen on the hit Pakistani TV series Mata-e-jaan on HUM TV, which was directed by the acclaimed Mehreen Jabbar. Other TV credits include: The Good Wife (CBS), Patrice O’Neil’s Guide to White People (Comedy Central), Food Detectives with Ted Allen (Food Network), and Cinematherapy with comedian Chuck Nice (WEtv). She has performed at Upright Citizen's Brigade, and appeared in sketches for collegehumor.com. She co-produces and co-stars in the webseries Landing in Mumbai (www.mumbaichopra. com). More details at www.AizzahFatima.com Page 4 http://mest.uark.edu • 479-575-2175 • [email protected] NADI CINEMA FALL 2014 7:00 PM WEDNESDAYS - AFLS 107E King Fahd Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Arkansas RECENT EVENTS Middle East Studies & Spring International Langage Center Student Mixer September 24, 2014 Hailing from all over North Africa and the Middle East, International English teachers who teach economically disadvantaged youth in their home countries through the ‘Access’ program funded by the U.S.
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