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U-M Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Colloquium Series
Every Wed. (except Oct. 29). Talks by U-M & visiting scholars.
Oct. 1: “When Enslaved Men Could Sue Their Masters and Win: A Case from Nineteenth-Century Egypt.” Tufts University North Africa & Middle East studies professor Khaled Fahmy discusses an 1858 case in which a group of enslaved men successfully sued a high official for the beating death of a colleague.
Oct. 8: U.S. Massacres of Civilians in Iraq.” Talk by veteran investigative journalist Madeleine Baran, host of the New Yorker podcast In the Dark.
Oct. 15: “The Revolution Within: Islamic Media and the Struggle for a New Egypt.” Talk by U-M anthropology professor Yasmin Moll.
Oct. 22: “The Caribbean Qasida: Muslim Devotional Performance in Guyana and Trinidad.” U-M Afroamerican and African studies professor Aliyah Khan discusses poetic praise songs brought to the Caribbean by 19th-century Urdu-speaking indentured Indian Muslims.
2–4 p.m., 555 Weiser Hall, 500 Church. Free. (734) 647–4143.
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