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Hala El Badry: "My Experience with Writing"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2009 68:29


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Born in Cairo in 1954, Hala El Badry graduated from Cairo University and is now deputy editor-in-chief of Egypt’s radio and television magazine. “A Certain Woman”, her fourth novel, was awarded the prize for the best novel of 2001 at the Cairo International Book Fair.

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Hayat Kara: "The Intellectual Dialogue in al-Andalus"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2009 58:43


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Professor Hayat is the director of ( U.F.R ) research and formation unit in Andalusian and Maghribi Studies at Mohammad V University in Rabat, Morocco. Originally recorded November 4, 2005

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Amina Mohamed: "Al-Zir Salim in History and Folktales, pt 2"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2009 20:17


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Amina Mohamed is Lecturer of Arabic at the University of Chicago. Originally recorded February 17, 2006

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Amina Mohamed: "Al-Zir Salim in History and Folktales, pt 1"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2009 33:15


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Amina Mohamed is Lecturer of Arabic at the University of Chicago. Originally recorded February 17, 2006

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Farouk Mustafa: "Translation and the Other, pt 1"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2009 33:15


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Dr. Mustafa is Ibn Rushd Professorial Lecturer in Modern Arabic Language, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago. Originally recorded February 3, 2006.

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Farouk Mustafa: "Translation and the Other, pt 2"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2009 29:09


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Dr. Mustafa is Ibn Rushd Professorial Lecturer in Modern Arabic Language, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago. Originally recorded February 3, 2006.

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Munira Misbah: "The Latest Work of Munira Misbah"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2009 33:25


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Munira Misbah. Originally recorded January 20, 2006

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Orit Bashkin: "Abu Nawas in America"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2009 32:29


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Dr. Bashkin is Assistant Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Chicago. Originally recorded January 6, 2006.

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Mahmoud al-Ta'ie: "Egypt Through Iraqi Eyes"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2009 52:33


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Mahmoud Saeed. Originally recorded November 18, 2005.

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Kay Heikkinen: "How are the Egyptians these days?"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2009 50:11


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. "Snapshots and Fleeting Glances." Kay Heikkinen is a Lecturer of Arabic at the University of Chicago. Originally recorded October 20, 2006.

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Toujan al-Faisal

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2009 33:15


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Toujan al-Faisal was the first woman elected to the Jordanian Parliament, where she served from 1993 to 1997. The views of the lecturer are her own and do not reflect the opinions or positions of the University of Chicago or any of its affiliate organizations.

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Farouk Mustafa: "My Trip to Cairo"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2009 60:44


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Farouk Mustafa is the Ibn Rushd Professorial Lecturer in Modern Arabic Language, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago.

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Toujan al-Faisal, pt 2

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2009 33:15


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Toujan al-Faisal was the first woman elected to the Jordanian Parliament, where she served from 1993 to 1997. The views of the lecturer are her own and do not reflect the opinions or positions of the University of Chicago or any of its affiliate organizations.

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Kay Heikkinen: "A Personal Reading of 'Season of Migration to the North', pt 1"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2009 36:21


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Kay Heikkinen is a Lecturer of Arabic at the University of Chicago. Originally recorded January 12, 2007.

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Kay Heikkinen: "A Modern Egyptian Woman: Fathia al-Assal in her Autobiography, pt 2"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2009 23:37


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Kay Heikkinen is a Lecturer of Arabic at the University of Chicago. Originally recorded February 24, 2006.

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Kay Heikkinen: "A Personal Reading of 'Season of Migration to the North', pt 1"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2009 36:21


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Kay Heikkinen is a Lecturer of Arabic at the University of Chicago. Originally recorded January 12, 2007.

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Kay Heikkinen: "A Personal Reading of 'Season of Migration to the North', pt 2"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2009 31:20


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Kay Heikkinen is a Lecturer of Arabic at the University of Chicago. Originally recorded January 12, 2007.

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Farouk Mustafa: "Recent Arabic Novels"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2009 68:40


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Farouk Mustafa is the Ibn Rushd Professorial Lecturer in Modern Arabic Language, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago.

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Amy Ruszkiewicz: "My Big Adventure in Qatar"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2009 40:17


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Amy Ruszkiewicz is a graduate of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago. She came back for a visit and gave us this wonderful account of her studies in Qatar.

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Noha Forster: "A Video Trip Around the Arab World"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2009 43:51


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Noha Forster is a Lecturer of Arabic at the University of Chicago. Originally recorded November 17, 2006

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Ahmad Baasiri: The Lebanon July War: Has it ended?

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2009 60:32


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Ahmad Baasiri is a student at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago. Originally recorded November 10, 2006.

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Issa Boulos: "Introduction to Arabic Music"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2009 62:44


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Issa Boulos is director of the Middle East Music Ensemble. Originally recorded May 4, 2007

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Rasmiyya Yusuf: "The Arab-American Community in Chicago"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2009 62:53


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Rasmiyya Yusuf. Originally recorded October 26, 2007

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Mohammed Eissa: "Memories of a Modern Azhari, pt 2: My Experience with the Revolt of 1952"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2009 58:36


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Muhammad Eissa is a Lecturer of Arabic at the University of Chicago. Originally recorded October 12, 2007

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Sasson Somekh: "Baghdad Yesterday"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2009 40:20


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Sasson Somekh is a professor emeritus of Modern Arabic Literature at Tel Aviv University. Originally recorded October 5, 2007

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Mohammed Eissa: "Memories of a Modern Azhari, pt 1"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2009 57:04


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Muhammad Eissa is a Lecturer of Arabic at the University of Chicago.

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Michael Sells: "A Reading and Translation of Ibn Zaydun's 'Nuniyya'"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2009 55:41


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Michael Sells is the John Henry Barrows Professor of Islamic History and Literature in the Divinity School, University of Chicago. Originally recorded May 25, 2007

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Munira Misbah: "The experience of the poet Fadwa Toukan in the rise to freedom"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2009 53:11


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Munira Misbah. Originally recorded April 27, 2007

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Amahl Bishara: "The Writing on the Wall"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2009 53:42


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Locating Palestinian Voices of Resistance in Western Agency Photography of the Separation Barrier. Originally recorded April 20, 2007

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Elizabeth Urban: "Why I Study The Umayyads"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2009 56:34


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Elizabeth Urban is a graduate student at the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago.

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Amina Mohamed: "The Slums of Cairo"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2009 51:52


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Amina Mohamed is a Lecturer of Arabic at the University of Chicago.

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Yazan Doughan: "My Story and the Story of My Hometown of Amman"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2009 54:42


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Yazan Doughan. Originally recorded February 1, 2008

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Noha Forster: "My Alexandria"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2009 70:59


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Noha Forster is a Lecturer of Arabic at the University of Chicago. Originally recorded January 25, 2008

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Rana Mikati: "Reality TV in the Arab World"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2009 9:34


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Rana Mikati is a doctoral candidate in the department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago. Originally recorded November 16, 2007

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Sheikh Amin al-Ali: "Islam in Chicago"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2009 52:47


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Sheikh Amin Al-Ali. Originally recorded November 9, 2007

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"Spoken Arabic in Greater Syria, pt 1"

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2009 20:50


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Thomas Salem Manganaro, James Rumsey-Merlan, and Rafi Mottahedeh. Originally recorded October 19, 2007

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