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U-M Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Speaker Series
Sept. 10, 17, & 24. Talks by U-M and visiting scholars.
Sept. 10: “Family Archives and Female Spaces of Intimacy.” U-M history professor Kathryn Babayan discusses female friendship in the early modern Islamic world through a 17-century anthology preserved in the library of the Urdubadi family, a household of poets and bureaucrats in Safavid, Iran.
Sept. 17: “Labor of Love: The Poor First Son of Bitches.” University of Houston history professor Hanan Hammad discusses how industrialization reshaped gender roles, sexuality, and public morality in interwar Egypt.
Sept. 24: “Confronting Silence and Invisibility: The Forgotten Genocide in Libya.” University of New England (Biddeford, ME) political science professor Ali Abdullatif Ahmida discusses the Italian colonialization of Libya.
2–4 p.m., 555 Weiser Hall, 500 Church St. Free. (734) 647–4143.
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