CMENAS Events
Upcoming Events
Film screening
“Joonam”
March 23, 2023 – 6:00 pm
AA (Academic Building A), Room G007
Film screening followed by Q & A with the film’s director, Sierra Urich
FREE admission open to the entire campus community
Sponsored by the Center for Middle East and North Africa Studies (CMENAS). Cosponsored by the Departments of Cinema and Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies (MEAMS)
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Lecture
A Tale of Three Brothers: Ezra, Me’ir, and Hayyawi Sawda’i and the Role of Iraqi Jews in the Iraq Cinema Industry, 1911-1951.
Presented by Pelle Valentin Olsen, postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oslo, Norway
Thursday, April 13, 2023 -- || -- 5:00 pm
Alpern Room (Library North-2200)
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Past Events
Open House
Music, Food, and Community
- All are welcome
- Wednesday, September 14, 2022
- 4:00 - 5:30 pm
- IASH Conference Rm (Library North-1106)
Lecture
- “Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt”
- Presented by Professor Ziad Fahmy (Cornell University)
- Thursday, September 29, 2022
- 6:00 - 7:00 pm
- Alpern Room (Library North-2200)
Abstract:
As the twentieth century roared on, transformative technologies—from trains, trams, and automobiles to radios and loudspeakers—fundamentally changed the sounds of the Egyptian streets. The cacophony of everyday life grew louder, and the Egyptian press featured editorials calling for the regulation of not only mechanized and amplified sounds, but also the voices of street venders, the music of wedding processions, and even traditional funerary wails. Ziad Fahmy offers the first historical examination of the changing soundscapes of urban Egypt, highlighting the mundane sounds of street-life, while “listening” to the voices of ordinary people as they struggle with state authorities for ownership of the streets.
(Cosponsored by the History Department, the Music Department, the Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP), the Sociology Department, the Department of Africana Studies, and the Department of Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies (MEAMS))
CMENAS Faculty Affiliates Business Meeting
Friday, September 30, 2022, 9:00 - 10:00 am, IASH Conference Rm (Library North-1106)
