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In this episode of the afikra podcast, we tackle the alternative histories of Beirut, planning cities that put communities first, and rethinking public spaces. Mona Fawaz — co-founder of Beirut Urban Lab and professor of Urban Studies and Planning at the American University of Beirut (AUB) — tells us about her research into Lebanon's temporary settlements, unearthing alternative histories of Beirut, and why the city still goes by its masterplan from the 50s which puts cars first. She explains the intricacies of urban studies, what "planning" as a profession actually means, and why she considers Beirut to be a "hijacked city". Finally, Mona tells us about the fascinating work and research that Beirut Urban Lab is doing and the visions she has for the future of this city.Mona Fawaz is a Professor in Urban Studies and Planning at the American University of Beirut (AUB). She is also the co-founder of the Beirut Urban Lab at AUB, and serves as the director of the Social Justice and the City research program at the Issam Fares Institute of Public Policy (also at AUB). Mona was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Studies at Harvard University during the 2014/15 academic year and in Summer 2017.Connect with Mona
Ali Rida Rizek (Ph.D., Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Göttingen 2021) is a scholar of the social and intellectual history of Islam, with a particular focus on Twelver Shiʿism. He received his BA and MA in Arabic Language and Literature from the American University of Beirut (AUB) in Lebanon. He has taught at the American University of Beirut (AUB), the Lebanese American University (LAU), the University of Leiden, the University of Göttingen, and the University of Bayreuth in Germany. His research focuses on the history of Islamic law, Qurʾanic studies, Arabic literature, and classical Islamic education. He has published studies on hadith, legal history, and the classical Islamic ethical discourse. His upcoming book examines, for the first time in a monograph, the life, work, and impact of two early Imāmī legal scholars, namely Ibn Abī ʿAqīl al-ʿUmānī and Ibn al-Junayd al-Iskāfī (both flourishing in the 4th/10th century).
Joe Manok is the Vice President for University Advancement at Clark University where he provides executive leadership to all aspects of fundraising, corporate and foundation relations, and alumni engagement.Prior to joining Clark, Joe held senior-level positions for eight years in the Office of Resource Development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as part of the MIT's $6.2 billion Campaign for a Better World. Most recently serving as senior director of philanthropic partnerships. Before joining MIT, Joe worked between 2003 and 2014 at the Office of Development of the American University of Beirut (AUB). He served as associate director of development for major gifts and advancement services in New York, and as the assistant director for development services in Beirut.Joe earned his Bachelor of Science in computer science from AUB and is working toward his Master of Science in nonprofit management from Northeastern University. He is a certified fundraising executive through CFRE International and completed an executive certification in strategy and innovation at MIT's Sloan School of Management. He sits on the board of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) in Massachusetts and has been recognized by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) with the Rising Star Award for his consistently high level of professional achievement and commitment to the advancement profession.
In this compelling podcast episode, Ricardo Karam engages in a fascinating conversation with Najat Saliba, a distinguished figure in the world of science, environmental conservation, and politics. As a Professor of Analytical Chemistry and an atmospheric chemist at the American University of Beirut (AUB), Saliba's career has been marked by a relentless pursuit of scientific excellence. Her notable achievements include serving as the Director of AUB's Nature Conservation Center from 2013 to 2020 and co-founding and directing Khaddit Beirut, an initiative born in response to Beirut's 2020 explosion. Additionally, she is the founder and director of the Environment Academy, a visionary project supported by the World Health Organization. Saliba's accomplishments extend beyond the laboratory and conservation efforts. In 2019, she was appointed a laureate of the prestigious L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science program, recognizing her exceptional contributions to the field. In a remarkable turn of events, Saliba was elected to the Lebanese parliament in 2022, adding a new dimension to her illustrious career. Najat Saliba's journey is a testament to her unwavering commitment to science, environmental stewardship, and public service. Her ability to bridge the worlds of academia, conservation, and politics makes her an inspirational and influential presence in Lebanon and beyond. في هذاالبودكاست، يلتقي ريكاردو كرم نجاة صليبا، الشخصية البارزة في عالم العلوم والحفاظ على البيئة والسياسة. بصفتها أستاذة الكيمياء التحليلية وكيميائية الغلاف الجوي في الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت، اتسّمت مسيرة صليبا المهنية بالسعي الدؤوب لتحقيق التميّز العلمي. تشمل إنجازاتها البارزة عملها كمديرة لمركز حماية الطبيعة التابع للجامعة بين عامي ۲۰١٣ و۲۰۲۰ والمشاركة في تأسيس وإدارة "خضّة بيروت"، وهي مبادرة ولدت استجابة لانفجار بيروت عام ۲۰۲۰. بالإضافة إلى ذلك، هي مؤسسة ومديرة أكاديمية البيئة، وهو مشروع رؤيوي تدعمه منظمة الصحة العالمية. تمتدّ إنجازات صليبا إلى ما هو أبعد من جهود المختبر والحفظ. وفي عام ۲۰١٩، حازت على جائزة برنامج لوريال-اليونسكو للنساء في العلوم، تقديراً لمساهماتها الاستثنائية في هذا المجال. وفي تحوّل ملحوظ للأحداث، تمّ انتخابها لعضوية مجلس النواب اللبناني عام ۲۰۲۲، ممّا أضاف بعداً جديداً إلى مسيرتها المهنية اللامعة. إنّ رحلة نجاة صليبا هي شهادة على التزامها الثابت بالعلم والإشراف البيئي والخدمة العامة. وإنّ قدرتها على الربط بين عوالم الأوساط الأكاديمية والحفاظ على البيئة والسياسة جعلتها ذات حضور ملهم ومؤثّر في لبنان وخارجه.
Hello everyone, and welcome to Money, Power, Health. All three themes very much play into the health and wellbeing of the people of Lebanon, which has been assailed by a multi-pronged crisis for the past few years. Lebanon hosts an estimated 1.5 million Syrian refugees, the largest number of refugees per capita of any country, and has experienced a profound combination of socioeconomic turndown and COVID-19 pandemic since 2019, in addition to the devastating port of Beirut explosion in 2020. This week, I will be speaking to Judy Makhoul. Judy is professor of Department of Health Promotion and Community Health at the American University of Beirut (AUB), and has a had a rich and varied career spanning academic work on disaster relief, displaced population and commercial determinants of heallth, but also work with Save the Children in Lebanon. In this conversation we cover how she became interested in these areas, her work and life in Beirut, and her reflections on conducting research and teaching in the complex, challenging circumstances of Beirut in the light of the civil war, the Syrian war, and the 2020 explosion. Her research and publications have focused on war affected populations such as internally displaced families of the Lebanese civil war, border crossing refugee populations, (Palestinian and Iraqi refugees) qualitative research and community based research and research ethics in the Arab region. You can find more about her research here: https://tinyurl.com/ycyvzsvc And the work of the GECI-PH network here, coordinated by Rima Nakkash and Melissa Mialon: https://www.aub.edu.lb/fhs/Pages/GECI.aspx Link to Daniel Maani's music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4GDF0XnCn78nce0gesJoC7
In this episode, we turn the tables and interview the podcast host, Dr. Danyel Reiche, Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) and Visiting Associate Professor at Georgetown University Qatar where he leads a research initiative on "Building a Legacy: Qatar FIFA World Cup 2022."With Paul Brannagan, he published the book Qatar and the 2022 FIFA World Cup: Politics, Controversy, Change (Palgrave Macmillan 2022), and edited the volume Handbook of Sport in the Middle East (Routledge 2022).Reiche joined Georgetown University Qatar in the summer of 2020. It is the second time he is joining GU, after being a Visiting Assistant Professor at the main campus in Washington D.C. from 2006 to 2007. Dr. Reiche graduated with distinction from Leibniz University in Hannover, Germany. From 2008 to 2020, he was a tenured Associate Professor for Comparative Politics at the American University of Beirut (AUB) in Lebanon.Dr. Reiche's past research has focused on two areas: energy as well as sports policy and politics, with the latter his recent priority. Professor Reiche published Success and Failure of Countries at the Olympic Games in 2016 with Routledge. His proposed model to explain sporting success received positive reviews in academic journals and extensive media coverage. For example, CNN host Fareed Zakaria referenced the book in his weekly Washington Post column. Professor Reiche also edited with Tamir Sorek (University of Florida) a volume entitled Sport, Politics and Society in the Middle East, which was published in 2019 with Hurst/Oxford University Press. His peer-reviewed articles have been published both in area study journals (such as International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics and Journal of Energy Policy) and in broader-oriented journals, such as Third World Quarterly or The Middle East Journal. Dr. Reiche is co-founder of the Sports Scholars in Lebanon Network (LESSN) and chair of the Political Studies Association's Sport and Politics Study Group.Dr. Reiche has given invited lectures around the world at universities including Harvard University, Princeton University and the University of Cambridge. He has been frequently quoted by major media outlets including ESPN, Financial Times, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and interviewed by podcasts, radio stations, and TV programs including Al Jazeera's Inside Story, CNN, and Sky. He has also written op-ed's for newspapers including The Washington Post and Der Spiegel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Rami George Khoury talks about the status of politics and journalism in the modern world and how it shapes people's lives. He discusses how the media has shifted in light of today's circumstances.Rami George Khouri is Co-Director of Global Engagement at the American University of Beirut (AUB) based in NY, an internationally syndicated political columnist and book author, and Journalist-in-Residence at AUB, and a non-resident senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School.Created & hosted by Mikey Muhanna, afikraEdited by: Ramzi RammanTheme music by: Tarek Yamani https://www.instagram.com/tarek_yamani/About the afikra Conversations:Our long-form interview series features academics, arts, and media experts who are helping document and/or shape the history and culture of the Arab world through their work. Our hope is that by having the guest share their expertise and story, the community still walks away with newfound curiosity - and maybe some good recommendations about new nerdy rabbit holes to dive into headfirst. Following the interview, there is a moderated town-hall-style Q&A with questions coming from the live virtual audience on Zoom. Join the live audience: https://www.afikra.com/rsvp FollowYoutube - Instagram (@afikra_) - Facebook - Twitter Support www.afikra.com/supportAbout afikra:afikra is a movement to convert passive interest in the Arab world to active intellectual curiosity. We aim to collectively reframe the dominant narrative of the region by exploring the histories and cultures of the region- past, present, and future - through conversations driven by curiosity. Read more about us on afikra.com
Huda AbiFarès interviews Farah Fayyad about her passion for and practice as screen printer at her co-founded Nice Nice Prints. She candidly tells her story about coincidentally becoming a graphic designer, staring with randomly studying design at the American University of Beirut (AUB), studying renowned local calligrapher, her professional experience with local design studios and cultural centers. She also discusses her design approach to printmaking, lettering and the intimacy of book design's intricacies of formats, structure, and materiality.***** About Khatt Chronicles *****Khatt Chronicles podcast features remarkable designers, illustrators, and researchers from the Arab World. We host engaging conversations about their practice, vision, and aspirations. In line with the rest of the Khatt foundation projects, focuses on new developments with Arab typography and design. By Arab, we mean people working with the Arabic language, script, and audience, who are not necessarily Arabs. These initiatives are dedicated to the younger generation as an alternative medium. It also focuses on the younger generations of designers to fulfill three primary objectives:1. Promote designers in the Arab World to the region and the rest of the world.2. Continue the mission of Khatt foundation as a network between designers to support fostering and exploring new ideas.3. Present these podcasts for inspiration and educational reasons.The podcast is an ongoing platform covering design initiatives and developments around the world. Our aim is to identify and highlight designers from the Arab World that have made meaningful contributions in their fields or have demonstrated excellence in design.Through storytelling, the Khatt Chronicles podcast will get you to know the designers on a personal level, and get to learn about how they think, and what makes them tick.Khatt Chronicles podcast is in collaboration with afikra.FollowInstagram: @khatt_chroniclesTwitter: @khttnetYouTube: Khatt Chronicles - YouTubeKhatt.net_Khatt Chronicles: https://www.khtt.net/en/page/28678/khatt-design-chronicles***** About afikra *****afikra is a movement to convert passive interest in the Arab world to active intellectual curiosity. We aim to collectively reframe the dominant narrative of the region by exploring the histories and cultures of the region- past, present, and future - through conversations driven by curiosity. Read more about us on afikra.com
Carbon emissions are one of the biggest challenges we face due to the risks posed by CO2 emissions in rising temperature and water levels, as well as the threat it poses economically. So, how can we avoid producing it? In this episode, Dr. Dhabia Al-Mohannadi gives us an overview of how to reduce CO2 emissions by pursuing economically and environmentally sustainable methods.Dr. Al-Mohannadi is an assistant professor of chemical engineering at Texas A&M University Qatar and a member of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and Omega Chi Epsilon Honor Society. Her work focuses on the systematic design of sustainable industrial parks under carbon dioxide limits, resource management, and climate policy evaluation. It also deals with multidisciplinary problems that involve different decision-making processes, engineering, and economics. Dr. Al-Mohannadi's research leads to the development of analytical tools that assess the flexibility, robustness, and reliability of process systems. Her research interests include the following: Process system engineering Process integration modelling and optimization Sustainable design and operation of eco-industrial parks Carbon dioxide mitigation and natural resource management Inter-disciplinary approaches to decision-making and problem-solving Strategic planning and techno-economic modelling Throughout her career, Dr. Al-Mohannadi has collaborated with several prestigious institutions, including the Petroleum department at Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ), Maastricht University (MU), American University of Beirut (AUB), and Imperial College of London (IMC).See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On 4 August 2020, a massive explosion destroyed the port of Beirut. It's impact was felt across the city, reaching the Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut (AUB). The pressure from the explosion shattered a glass display at the museum holding 74 glass vessels, mainly Roman with a few Byzantine and Islamic. The team at the AUB collected the shards from the floor, separated them and sent eight of the broken vessels to the UK. And so began the journey of collaboration between Lebanon and England to restore these ancient vessels at the British Museum. Janay Boulos, a Lebanese BBC News journalist, follows the journey of restoring these vessels and they become a symbol of Beirut, broken into pieces, scarred, and slowly being restored to its formal glory.
نيكولاس فوتيادس ، المستشار المالي ومؤسس Orion Financial Solutions ، يناقش مع لينا س. مداح تأثير الأزمات على رواد الأعمال بحكم الضرورة في المناطق الريفية ، من الناحية المالية. يتناول البودكاست تطوير وتكامل أدوات التمويل البديلة (التقليدية والرقمية) التي يمكن أن تدعم ريادة الأعمال الريفية خلال الأزمات ، وبعد ذلك ، على مستوى أكثر استراتيجية. نيكولاس فوتيادس هو مصرفي استثماري ومستشار مالي يتمتع بخبرة تزيد عن 30 عامًا في لندن وباريس ومنطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا. وهو المؤسس والشريك الإداري (منذ 2002) لشركة Orion Financial Solutions. نيكولاس متخصص في إعادة هيكلة الديون وتنويع التمويل وأسواق رأس المال والأسهم والأسهم الخاصة وعمليات الدمج والاستحواذ. كما يتمتع بخبرة واسعة في التطوير المصرفي والتصنيف الائتماني. السيد فوتيادس حاصل على درجة الماجستير في التمويل والاستثمار من جامعة إكستر في المملكة المتحدة وبكالوريوس في الاقتصاد من الجامعة الأمريكية في بيروت (AUB). Nicolas Photiades, financial advisor and founder of Orion Financial Solutions, discusses with Lina Maddah the impact of the crises on NDEs in rural areas, from a financial point of view. The podcast addresses the development and integration of alternative financing vehicles and tools (both conventional and digital) that can support rural entrepreneurship during the crises, and afterwards, on a more strategic level. Nicolas Photiades is an investment banker and financial advisor with over 30 years of experience in London, Paris and the MENA region. He is the founder and managing partner (since 2002) of Orion Financial Solutions. Nicholas specializes in debt restructuring, financing diversification, capital markets, equity, private equity and mergers and acquisitions. He also has extensive experience in banking development and credit rating. Mr. Photiades holds a Master's degree in Finance and Investment from University of Exeter in the UK and BA in Economics from the American University of Beirut (AUB). --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alt-frequencies/message
Danyel Reiche spoke about his research on the FIFA World Cup 2022 and his book, "Qatar and the 2022 FIFA World Cup: Politics, Controversy, Change."Dr. Danyel Reiche is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) and an Associate Professor at Georgetown University Qatar where he leads a research initiative on the FIFA World Cup 2022. With Paul Brannagan, he published the book Qatar and the 2022 FIFA World Cup: Politics, Controversy, Change, and edited the volume Handbook of Sport in the Middle East. Dr. Reiche graduated with distinction from Leibniz University in Hannover, Germany. From 2008 to 2020, he was a tenured Associate Professor for Comparative Politics at the American University of Beirut (AUB) in Lebanon. Dr. Reiche's past research has focused on two areas: energy as well as sports policy and politics, with the latter his recent priority. Professor Reiche published other works such as Success and Failure of Countries at the Olympic Games and edited with Tamir Sorek (University of Florida) a volume entitled Sport, Politics and Society in the Middle East. Dr. Reiche has given invited lectures around the world at universities including Harvard University and the University of Cambridge. He has been frequently quoted by major media outlets including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and interviewed by podcasts, radio stations, and TV programs including Al Jazeera's Inside Story.Created and hosted by Mikey Muhanna, afikraEdited by: Ramzi RammanTheme music by: Tarek Yamani https://www.instagram.com/tarek_yamani/About the afikra Conversations:Our long-form interview series features academics, arts, and media experts who are helping document and/or shape the history and culture of the Arab world through their work. Our hope is that by having the guest share their expertise and story, the community still walks away with newfound curiosity - and maybe some good recommendations about new nerdy rabbit holes to dive into headfirst. Following the interview, there is a moderated town-hall-style Q&A with questions coming from the live virtual audience on Zoom. Join the live audience: https://www.afikra.com/rsvp FollowYoutube - Instagram (@afikra_) - Facebook - Twitter Support www.afikra.com/supportAbout afikra:afikra is a movement to convert passive interest in the Arab world to active intellectual curiosity. We aim to collectively reframe the dominant narrative of the region by exploring the histories and cultures of the region- past, present, and future - through conversations driven by curiosity. Read more about us on afikra.com
On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Rima Majed, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies Department at the American University of Beirut (AUB). Her work focuses on the fields of social movements, sectarianism, conflict, and violence. She is currently a visiting fellow at the Middle East initiative at Harvard University for 2022/23. Her work has appeared in several journals, books and media platforms such as Social Forces, Mobilization, Routledge Handbook on the Politics of the Middle East, Middle East Law and Governance Journal, Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East, Global Dialogue, Idafat: The Arab Journal of Sociology, Al Jumhuriya, OpenDemocracy, Jacobin, Middle East Eye, CNN and Al Jazeera English. She is also the co-editor of the upcoming book The Lebanon Uprising of 2019: Voices from the Revolution (I.B. Tauris, 2022), and the Principal Investigator on the “Critical Approaches to Development Studies" project at the American University of Beirut. You can find her on twitter @rima_majed. On this episode, Simon and Rima talk about protest, the second intifada, political economy, neoliberalism, neoliberalism in Lebanon, sectarianism and neoliberalism, protest in Lebanon and Iraq, social movements, and much more.
Firas performed three songs, spoke about starting Last Floor Productions, and his work in movie/TV composition.Firas Abou Fakher is a Lebanese composer, producer, and writer. While attending the American University of Beirut (AUB), he co-founded Mashrou' Leila with Hamed Sinno, Haig Papazian and Carl Gerges and is the band's composer, guitarist, and keyboardist. He also co-founded Last Floor Productions with two longtime friends, writer and Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts screenwriting professor Daniel Habib and writer Nasri Atallah, and it focuses on genre film and television. The company's first production, Al Shak (Doubt), was written, shot and released during the early phase of the COVID lockdown of 2020. It was produced as a Shahid Original for the leading streaming service launched by MBC Group. Last Floor Productions second series, Fixer, was released later the same year. Both series were co-created, co-executive produced and scored by Abou Fakher.Created & Hosted by Mikey Muhanna, afikra Edited by: Ramzi RammanTheme music by: Tarek Yamani https://www.instagram.com/tarek_yamani/About Quartertones:QuarterTones is a music show. It is an opportunity to listen to music, across genres, from musicians of and from the Arab world. This series is similar to NPR's All Songs Considered that is focused on the Arab world. afikra will be inviting musicians of all genres, as well as music historians, to help better understand the music that they perform or study. In this series, the guests will be invited to talk about their work and play their music, whether live or recorded, in three segments. The series will host current musicians who play contemporary and modern, including alternative scene or hip-hop, electronic, classical music, among other genres. The musicians will also be from different geographies.Join the live audience: https://www.afikra.com/rsvp FollowYoutube - Instagram (@afikra_) - Facebook - Twitter Support www.afikra.com/supportAbout afikra:afikra is a movement to convert passive interest in the Arab world to active intellectual curiosity. We aim to collectively reframe the dominant narrative of the region by exploring the histories and cultures of the region- past, present, and future - through conversations driven by curiosity. Read more about us on afikra.com
Elie Skaf is the Co-Founder & CEO of Right Farm, a B2B AgTech platform on a mission to improve food supply chains in the MENAPT region. They recently raised a USD 2.8M seed round led by DisruptAD and Enhance Ventures. In the first half of this episode, we discuss the story behind Right Farm, fascinating insights about food supply, sustainability challenges, food waste management and other related topics across the value chain within Right Farm's vicinity. Even though we just met, Elie and I both worked as Management Consultants earlier in our careers and also studied at the American University of Beirut (AUB) between 2004-2007. Naturally, we also had an awesome chat about our common past experiences and went down the Lebanon memory lane after 15 years of our graduation. - Learn more about Right Farm here: https://www.rightfarm.com/ - Follow Elie Skaf on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elie-s/ - Follow 'Pod Kas with Yaz' on all streaming platforms here: https://linktr.ee/podkaswithyaz
[0:00] Why is Sufism a debatable topic worldwide? [7:36] The etymological origins of the name “Sufism” [9:49] The historical beginnings of Sufism [10:55] The existential questions that define Islamic branches [14:24] The story of the Prophet Mohammad and the angel Gabriel [16:32] Various Sufi practices throughout history [21:59] All about the Dervishes (Sufi whirlers) and the Mevlevi way [25:16] Mystical and Sufist practices in other religions [28:56] Debunking the misconceptions of Sufism brought on by the internet [31:26] The controversial miracles in Sufism and criticisms from other religions [35:43] The danger Sufis represented to the Turkish system [38:21] Sufis don't worship out of fear of Hell nor desire for Heaven [42:37] Defining the gender of God [43:57] Yawm Al Mithak: The moment of creation [49:43] Finding beauty in the art of math and in Arabic literature [53:06] The similarities between the world's religions [57:02] The enemies of Sufism over time [1:03:39] Al-Hallaj, the Absolute Truth and the secret he divulged [1:07:11] Teaching life values in a college course through Sufism [1:22:05] The concept of marriage & love in Sufism [1:30:45] Ambiguity in Sufism No Halal (right) Nor Haram (wrong) [1:32:09] What unites/separates Sufism, Islam, Christianity, and Judaism? [1:39:05] Can no religious people be considered “Good”? [1:51:42] The negative side of Sufism [1:55:23] The negative connotation of Hope in Sufism and the myth of The Simurgh Please consider joining our community on Patreon and supporting us! https://www.patreon.com/sardeafterdinner بلال الأرفه لي هو أكاديمي متخصص بالأدب العربي والدراسات القرآنية والتصوّف. يشغر منصب كرسي الشيخ زايد للدراسات العربية والإسلامية في الجامعة الأمريكية في بيروت. بدأ اهتمامه بالروحانيات والتصوّف أثناء دراسته للحصول على الدكتوراة في جامعة يال، حاليا يعلم صفًا عن هذا الموضوع في الجامعة الأمريكية في بيروت. تحدثنا في هذه السردة عن: - لماذا اشتهر جلال الدين الرومي؟ - كيف يمارس التصوّف حول العالم؟ - المفاهيم الخاطئة الشائعة عن المعتقدات الصوفيّة من وجهات نظر مختلفة. - ما هي العناصر المشتركة والمختلفة بين التصوّف، الإسلام، المسيحيّة واليهوديّة؟ - التفسيرات المختلفة للتصوّف بين البلدان وعبر التاريخ - الباطنية الروحانية والفنون في التصوّف (الشعر، الرقص، الفن، الغناء) Bilal Orfali is a scholar specializing in Arabic literature, Quranic studies and Sufism, who currently serves as the Sheikh Zayed Chair of Arabic and Islamic Studies at The American University of Beirut (AUB). During his PhD at Yale he began looking into spirituality and Sufism to satisfy his curiosity, and now teaches an in-demand class about it at AUB. In this Sarde, we spoke about the following: - Why is Rumi so damn popular? - How is Sufism defined and practiced around the world? - Common myths and misconceptions about Sufist beliefs from multiple perspectives - What unites/separates Sufism, Islam, Christianity and Judaism? - Different interpretations of Sufism across countries and cultures throughout history - Mysticism and the arts in Sufism (poetry, dance, art, singing) Sarde (noun), [Sa-r-de]: A colloquial term used in the Middle East to describe the act of letting go & kicking off a stream of consciousness and a rambling narrative. The Sarde After Dinner Podcast is a free space based out of the heart of Beirut, Lebanon, where Médéa Azouri & Mouin Jaber discuss a wide range of topics (usually) held behind closed doors in an open and simple way with guests from all walks of life. SARDE EVERY SUNDAY with NEW EPISODES released WEEKLY! 8:00 PM
In today's episode, we interview Rima Kaddoura. She is a PhD in Epidemiology candidate at the American University of Beirut (AUB) and mother a three-year-old boy. As a PhD candidate in Lebanon and academic mom, she has faced major difficulties: a revolution, economic collapse, deterioration of basic infrastructure, the Beirut blast, and COVID-19.We learn about Rima's career path, her research - and how her research has been affected by the recent events in her country. We also learn about what it is like to do a PhD in Lebanon, and what the requirements for the part-time PhD program at AUB are. We also learn from Rima's experience as an academic parent, and how she has been able to balance her work, part-time PhD studies, and parenting. Finally, we hear her best advice for PhD candidates, what a day in the life looks like, her way of setting boundaries to work, and the impact of COVID-19.ReferencesAmerican University of Beirut - AUBComprehensive examThesis proposalFind Rima on Twitter MS Thesis Publication Relevant reference for PhD project Lebanon's economic crisis explained
Howayda Al-Harithy talked about her current research which conceptualizes urban recovery in relation to processes of historical editing, urban trauma, and protracted displacement.Howayda Al-Harithy is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the Department of Architecture and Design (ArD) at the American University of Beirut (AUB). Her early research was centered on the architectural and urban practices of the Mamluk period in Egypt, Syria and Palestine. Her current research conceptualizes urban recovery in relation to processes of historical editing, urban trauma, and protracted displacement. Created & hosted by Mikey Muhanna, afikra Edited by: Ramzi RammanTheme music by: Tarek Yamani https://www.instagram.com/tarek_yamani/About the afikra Conversations:Our long-form interview series features academics, arts, and media experts who are helping document and/or shape the history and culture of the Arab world through their work. Our hope is that by having the guest share their expertise and story, the community still walks away with newfound curiosity - and maybe some good recommendations about new nerdy rabbit holes to dive into headfirst. Following the interview, there is a moderated town-hall-style Q&A with questions coming from the live virtual audience on Zoom. Join the live audience: https://www.afikra.com/rsvp FollowYoutube - Instagram (@afikra_) - Facebook - Twitter Support www.afikra.com/supportAbout afikra:afikra is a movement to convert passive interest in the Arab world to active intellectual curiosity. We aim to collectively reframe the dominant narrative of the region by exploring the histories and cultures of the region- past, present, and future - through conversations driven by curiosity. Read more about us on afikra.com
Volunteering has become common at mega sporting events. For example, there were 15,000 volunteers at the FIFA World Cup 2014 in Brazil and 17,000 in 2018 in Russia. At the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, around 20,000 volunteers will be expected to serve. We discussed the topic of volunteering at the FIFA World Cup 2022 with Nasser Al Mogaiseeb, Volunteer Strategy Manager at the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy, and Tania Haddad from the American University of Beirut, an Assistant Professor for Nonprofit Management and a leading scholar on volunteering in the Arab World. Nasser Al Mogaiseeb is the Volunteer Strategy Manager at the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy in Qatar. He is the Founding member of different voluntary and community initiatives, including the Youth Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Culture and Sport in Qatar. Tania Haddad is an Assistant Professor of Public Administration and Nonprofit Management at the Department of Political Studies and Public Administration at the American University of Beirut(AUB). Her research focuses on the fields of civil society, nonprofit management, nonprofit education, volunteering, disaster management, and e-government. Her research has appeared in many academic journals, including the International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, Democracy and Security, and The Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership. She was a Member of the Expert Group responsible for “Reimagining volunteerism for the 2030 Agenda” and collaborated with the International Association for Volunteer Efforts (IAVE) on their assessment of corporate volunteering in the Arab Nations region.
Episode 157: Dr. Rami Zurayk (https://www.aub.edu.lb/pages/profile.aspx?memberId=rzurayk) is a professor in the department of Landscape Design and Ecosystem Management at the American University of Beirut (AUB). At AUB, Rami directs the Food Security Program and coordinates the Rural Community Development Program. Besides these topics, his work focuses on sustainable diets and nutrition, sustainable food systems, and the political ecology of food security and agriculture in the Arab world. He obtained his BSc and MSc from the American University of Beirut and his DPhil from Oxford University. Rami tweets at https://twitter.com/FoodPandemic Martin Keulertz on food security and renewables in the Middle East https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/15-martin-keulertz-says-solar-will-free-the-middle-east
Ms. Maya Abi Chahine, is Program Manager, University for Seniors, American University of Beirut - AUB. The University for Seniors is a new life-long learning initiative at AUB, the first of its kind in Lebanon and the Middle East. It gives older adults (who are 50 and above) the opportunity to share their wisdom and passion, to learn things they have always wanted to learn in a friendly academic environment and to interact socially with other seniors, AUB faculty and students. Ms. Abi Chahine holds an MA in Public Policy & Ageing from King's College London and is a passionate advocate and researcher in health, well being issues and third age learning. Her portfolio includes collaborations with UN agencies, including WHO, United Nations Population Fund, and International Labour Organization, as well as INGOs such as HelpAge International and universities in the UK. Ms. Abi Chahine has 21 years of experience in setting-up and managing programs in the fields of public health, gerontology and education, notably universities. Throughout her multifaceted career, she developed skills in establishing and restructuring programs, by spearheading strategies, setting institutionalization mechanisms and driving daily operations that ensured customers and collaborators' satisfaction and expansion. Ms. Abi Chahine has been leading AUB's University for Seniors for the past 10 years along with her team, and she recently co-led, with Dr. Abla Mehio Sibai (Co-founder and the current President of the newly established ‘Center for Studies on Ageing' in Lebanon) the drafting of the first ever National Strategy on Ageing in Lebanon. The latest recognition of Ms. Abi Chahine's work came with WHO's Centre for Health Development selecting the lifelong learning program she's been leading and transforming at AUB, as one of the 10 most innovative community-based social innovations in low and middle-income countries. When not working, Ms. Abi Chahine would be savoring nature, discovering new countries, cultures and people. She also revels in exploring new paths to evolve and grow!
Walid S. Saba is the Founder and Principal AI Scientist at ONTOLOGIK.AI where he works on the development of Conversational AI. Prior to this, he was a PrincipalAI Scientist at Astound.ai and Co-Founder and the CTO of Klangoo. He also held various positions at such places as the American Institutes for Research, AT&TBell Labs, Metlife, IBM and Cognos, and has spent 7 years in academia where he taught computer science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, theUniversity of Windsor, and the American University of Beirut (AUB). Dr. Saba is frequently an invited speaker at various organizations and is also frequently invited to various panels and podcasts that discuss issues related to AI and Natural Language Processing. He has published over 40 technical articles, including an award-winning paper that was presented at theGerman Artificial Intelligence Conference in 2008. Walid holds a BSc and an MSc in Computer Science as well as a Ph.D. in Computer Science (AI/NLP) which he obtained from Carleton University in 1999. 00:00 intro 01:00 Language as a mental construct, PAC, Subtext in Sentences 06:28 OpenAI's Codex Platform, Below Human Baseline Performance of NLP 18:00 Comprehension vs Generation, Search vs Context 19:20 Sophia the Robot, Shallow ethics in AI and Commercialisation of Academia 27:40 Bad Research Papers, Facebook runaway train & AI Godfathers Cult. 32:30 AI leaders and Profiteering, Unethical Behaviour of Influencers. 37:50 Non-Verbal Component of Natural Language Understanding, Prosody and Accuracy Boost 41:33 Ontologik's NLU Engine, Adjective Ordering Restriction Mystery 43:58 Ontological Structure and Chomsky's Universal Grammar, Discovery vs Creation 45:31 Entity Extraction and How Ontologik's Engine tackles this Problem 47:50 Language Agnostic Learning, Foreign Language Learning, and Pedagogy of Linguistics 54:00 First Language, Blank State and Missing Sounds in Some Languages 55:20 Real-time Language Translation Engines, AR/VR Aids and Commercial Utility 01:01:00 Sentiment Analysis, Language Policing & Censorship 01:04:00 Ontological Structures, Gender Bias and Situational Paradox 01:09:00 3 Foods for Rest of the Life & Fad Food Indulgence 01:11:00 Inspiration for Getting into the Field, Career Ideals & Cultural Influence 01:15:30 Epistemology, IQ and The Bell Curve 01:17:00 Einstein's IQ, Haircut, Social Skills, and Success Rubric 01:22:00 Attracting Brilliant Talent Around the World, Ivy League PhDs & Standardised Testing 01:28:40 Unsupervised Learning, Accuracy & Comprehensibility in NLU 01:30:20 BF Skinner, Pavlovian Dogs, Skinner has been Skinned. 01:37:50 Human Behavioral Biology, Endocrinal System similarities with Humans yet they don't learn Languages. 01:45:30 Language as an expression of Genetic differences, Big Five & Phenotype. 01:49:40 IBM Watson Personality Insights, Text-based personality Inferences. 01:55:30 Long Short Term Memory Issue in Ontologik's Engine, Computational Complexity, Timeline for Release
Dr. Nasser Yassin, Associate Professor of Policy and Planning at the Health Management & Policy Department at the American University of Beirut (AUB), led a research team of 40 scholars who analyzed 100 cases of civil society advocacy for policy changes in 10 Arab countries. He explains why most policy advocacy by NGOs and civil society groups fails, and what are the keys to success (hint: perseverance, research, and collaboration).
A discussion examining the roots of the explosion and mass protests currently unfolding in Lebanon with speakers on the ground in Beirut. ----- Please join the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) International Committee and Haymarket Books for this forum examining the momentous events currently unfolding in Lebanon, featuring three speakers on the ground in Beirut. The massive explosion that rocked Beirut on August 4 revealed the depths of the Lebanese ruling elite's criminal mismanagement. The explosion and mass protests that followed come on the heels of a year-long economic crisis and popular revolt. Since October 17, 2019 the people of Lebanon have been in the streets again and again struggling to transform the country's sectarian-oligarchic political and economic system. Now in the wake of the COVID crisis, economic collapse, and devastation caused by elite incompetence which has driven 300,000 people from their homes, the people of Lebanon are rising up again. What can we learn from Lebanon's long uprising and how can we show solidarity? Speakers: Rima Majed is a writer, activist, and Assistant Professor of Sociology at the American University of Beirut (AUB). Her research focuses on social movements, sectarianism, conflict and violence in the Middle East. She has written extensively on the political economy of sectarianism, protests and uprisings in Lebanon and Iraq, structural transformations and unemployment in postwar Lebanon, and the importance of labor organization. Her work has appeared in a range of academic journals and media outlets, including Social Forces, Mobilization, Global Dialogue, Idafat: The Arab Journal of Sociology, Al Jumhuriya, CNN, Middle East Eye, openDemocracy, and Al Jazeera English. She is currently working on a book that looks at sectarian capitalism and the shift in sectarian boundaries in Lebanon. Lara Bitar is a journalist in Beirut and the founding editor of The Public Source, a Beirut-based independent media organization that covers socioeconomic and environmental crises afflicting Lebanon since the onset of neoliberal governance in the 1990s and provides political commentary on events unfolding since October 17, 2019. Bassel Salloukh is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Lebanese American University (LAU) in Beirut. He is co-author of The Politics of Sectarianism in Postwar Lebanon (2015) and Beyond the Arab Spring: Authoritarianism and Democratization in the Arab World (2012) and co-editor of Persistent Permeability? Regionalism, Localism, and Globalization in the Middle East (2004). Moderator: Shireen Akram-Boshar is a socialist activist and alum of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). She has organized around the question of the Syrian uprising and the relationship between Syrian and Palestinian struggles for liberation, as well as on anti-imperialism and solidarity with the revolts of the Middle East/North Africa region. Her writing has covered the repression of Palestine solidarity activists in the US, revolution and counterrevolution in the Middle East, Trump's war on immigrants, and the fight against the far right. Shireen is part of the Middle East and Africa working group of DSA's International Committee. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/Z2otEIX9Eu8 Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks
The Surviving Society team are extremely excited to present #TheSpotlightSeries. In these episodes Chantelle and Tissot take a step back from the mic and handover to both local and global academics, researchers, and community organizers. The Spotlight series continues with the themes from the original Surviving Society podcast focused on race, class, anti- racism and social movements. Guest hosts: Carmen Geha is an Associate Professor of Public Administration, Leadership, and Organizational Development at the American University of Beirut (AUB). She is also a co-founder and Research Associate at the Center for Inclusive Business & Leadership (CIBL) for women, a regional reference for readying gender-inclusive employers across the Arab MENA region. At CIBL for Women, Dr. Geha oversees research team of 40 across 11 countries in the MENA on developing inclusive policies at the organizational and national levels. Carmen is also co-founder and Deputy Director of Khaddit Beirut (the shake-up) a transdisciplinary team born in the wake of the Beirut port explosion to create a systematic and community-led roadmap for recovery in the areas of: community health, community education, environmental health, and inclusive businesses. Between 2018 and 2020, she served as Founding Director of “Education for Leadership in Crisis” Scholarship Program for Afghan women at AUB securing and managing $4.6 in tuition funding for students. Carmen's research examines the nexus between politics and public institutions with a focus on three areas of specialization: 1- women's political and economic participation, 2- refugee crisis politics and policies, and 3- civil society and protest movements. Carmen has held Vising Research positions at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. She is the 2018-2019 Fellow in the Program in Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. Carmen is a revolutionary activist and an advocate of gender equity and refugee protection. In addition to her academic track, she has several years of practitioner experience having worked as a consultant and adviser to international organizations, UN agencies, and government institutions in Myanmar, Tunisia, Libya, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Lebanon. Srila Roy: Srila Roy is Associate Professor of Sociology, and heads Development Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She is the author of Remembering Revolution: Gender, Violence and Subjectivity in India's Naxalbari Movement (Oxford, 2012), editor of New South Asian Feminisms (Zed, 2012) and co-editor of New Subaltern Politics (Oxford 2015). She is currently writing a monograph on feminist and queer politics in globalised India and co-editing a volume of essays on MeToo in India and South Africa. At Wits, she leads the Andrew W. Mellon funded Governing Intimacies project, which promotes new scholarship on gender and sexuality in Southern Africa and India.
The Surviving Society team are extremely excited to present #TheSpotlightSeries. In these episodes Chantelle and Tissot take a step back from the mic and handover to both local and global academics, researchers, and community organizers. The Spotlight series continues with the themes from the original Surviving Society podcast focused on race, class, anti- racism and social movements. Guest hosts: Carmen Geha is an Associate Professor of Public Administration, Leadership, and Organizational Development at the American University of Beirut (AUB). She is also a co-founder and Research Associate at the Center for Inclusive Business & Leadership (CIBL) for women, a regional reference for readying gender-inclusive employers across the Arab MENA region. At CIBL for Women, Dr. Geha oversees research team of 40 across 11 countries in the MENA on developing inclusive policies at the organizational and national levels. Carmen is also co-founder and Deputy Director of Khaddit Beirut (the shake-up) a transdisciplinary team born in the wake of the Beirut port explosion to create a systematic and community-led roadmap for recovery in the areas of: community health, community education, environmental health, and inclusive businesses. Between 2018 and 2020, she served as Founding Director of “Education for Leadership in Crisis” Scholarship Program for Afghan women at AUB securing and managing $4.6 in tuition funding for students. Carmen’s research examines the nexus between politics and public institutions with a focus on three areas of specialization: 1- women’s political and economic participation, 2- refugee crisis politics and policies, and 3- civil society and protest movements. Carmen has held Vising Research positions at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. She is the 2018-2019 Fellow in the Program in Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. Carmen is a revolutionary activist and an advocate of gender equity and refugee protection. In addition to her academic track, she has several years of practitioner experience having worked as a consultant and adviser to international organizations, UN agencies, and government institutions in Myanmar, Tunisia, Libya, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Lebanon. Srila Roy: Srila Roy is Associate Professor of Sociology, and heads Development Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She is the author of Remembering Revolution: Gender, Violence and Subjectivity in India’s Naxalbari Movement (Oxford, 2012), editor of New South Asian Feminisms (Zed, 2012) and co-editor of New Subaltern Politics (Oxford 2015). She is currently writing a monograph on feminist and queer politics in globalised India and co-editing a volume of essays on MeToo in India and South Africa. At Wits, she leads the Andrew W. Mellon funded Governing Intimacies project, which promotes new scholarship on gender and sexuality in Southern Africa and India.
Danyel Reiche is Visiting Associate Professor at Georgetown University-Qatar. He is on leave from the American University of Beirut (AUB) where he is a tenured Associate Professor of Comparative Politics. He is coeditor of Sport, Politics, and Society in the Middle East (Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2019).
Since September 27, Azerbaijan has been waging an all out war on Artsakh, cluster-bombing towns and villages and killing civilians and destroying churches and cultural centers, with the aim to destroy and depopulate the region. The worldwide Armenian Diaspora has come together to fight this existential threat.We’ve read much about the Diaspora’s activities around most of the world, but what about the Arab world? This episode explores some of the challenges and opportunities that the Armenian communities in the Arab world face.To help guide today’s Conversation on Groong, we have with us Prof. Asbed Kotchikian, who is a senior lecturer of political science and international relations at Bentley University in Massachusetts where he teaches courses on the Middle East and the former Soviet space.Prof. Kotchikian is joined by:Katia Peltekian, who has been teaching at the American University of Beirut since 1988. She has published two books which compile newspaper articles and reports from the Genocide years published in the Canadian and British press. Katia has been compiling news for the Armenian News Network Groong since 1999.AndVera Yacoubian, who is the executive director of the Armenian National committee of the Middle East. She’s a PhD candidate in political science and a lecturer at the American university of Beirut (AUB) in politics. Vera also teaches courses on The Armenian Genocide at Haigazian university.Editors: - Asbed Bedrossian - Hovik Manucharyan
Hiba Bou Akar talks about her latest book, For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut’s Frontiers, with Marc Lynch on this week’s podcast. The book examines urban planning in three neighborhoods of Beirut's southeastern peripheries, revealing how these areas have been developed into frontiers of a continuing sectarian order. Bou Akar explains, “So I start looking at the planning and how these residential complexes ended up mushrooming in an agricultural area but also next to inductees and eventually like a whole world starts opening to me about how… war displacement has shaped the housing market. There are political organizations that are fighting over territory after the war. And how planning is a tool in that conflict. It would sometimes be of negotiation and sometimes of contestation.” She goes on to say, “So the [idea of], For The War Yet to Come ends up being like this expectation of war that is either going to be like an Arab-Israeli war…or sectarian war, a regional war or whatever; that ends up shaping how people make decisions about where they live. Religious political organizations end up using this idea to keep people in strongholds. They intervene in the housing market…access to, for example, airports or to the waterfront etc...As a person who grew up in the Civil War and was personally displaced six times, I think I was haunted by the idea: What does it mean to live in a place where we were always expecting something disastrous to happen in the future?” “It was interesting to me because if you want to take a theoretical l lens I was like, people don't talk about when they think about land as Christian land you know like thinking about for example New York or other places in the world. And the fact that the land is talked about in…a religious terminology was interesting to me. And then when you map religion and sectarianism to land then anyone who is trying to just secure housing becomes like oh what is your religion, oh you're taking over , you’re Islamizing. And then you go from Islamizing for example the neighborhood to Islamizing the Middle East...It goes from one apartment or building blocks to becoming, on TV, Islamization of Lebanon…And so I got fascinated by the idea how people, without even blinking, assigned religion to land,” said Bou Akar. Hiba Bou Akar is an Assistant Professor in the Urban Planning program at Columbia GSAPP. Her research focuses on planning in conflict and post-conflict cities, the question of urban security and violence, and the role of religious political organizations in the making of cities. Bou Akar’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), the Wenner- Gren Foundation, and the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS). Bou Akar received her Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning with a designated emphasis in Global Metropolitan Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the American University of Beirut (AUB) and Master in Urban Studies and Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Music for this season's podcast was created by Feras Arrabi. You can find more of his work on his Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ferasarrabimusic)and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/feras.arrabi/)page.
Listen to the recorded live discussion on the aftermath of the Beirut Explosion. For a video version, click here (Will redirect to YouTube). During the panel discussion, speakers mapped out the humanitarian and urban landscape post-blast and explored questions such as: Can community-led accountability and recovery help build back better? How does the local community create a community led relief effort as a continuation of their revolution and protest movement? How do we ensure that reconstruction efforts are inclusive, and don't lead to further fragmentation? --------------------------------------------------------------------Speakers:Mona Fawaz is Professor of Urban Studies and Planning and Coordinator of the Masters in Urban Planning, Policy and Design at the American University of Beirut (AUB). She recently co-founded the Beirut Urban Lab at AUB, a regional research center invested in working towards more inclusive, just, and viable cities. Carmen Geha is an Activist and Associate Professor of Public Administration, Leadership, and Organizational Development at AUB and founder of Khaddit Beirut. She is also a Research Associate at the Center for Inclusive Business & Leadership (CIBL) for women, a regional reference for readying gender-inclusive employers across the Arab MENA region. Moderator:Luna Safwan is a Lebanese freelance journalist and communication specialist. She has previously worked as a reporter and editor for several Pan Arab and International news outlets. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for more.(To get in touch, e-mail events.english@alaraby.co.uk)The statements, analysis, opinions and conclusions in this Webinar, and any related written materials are those of the guest speakers and do not necessarily represent those of The New Arab. The information and materials contained in the Webinar may contain inaccuracies or errors and we expressly exclude liability for any such inaccuracies or errors to the fullest extent permitted by law)
Our WiDS Ambassadors in Paris and Beirut discuss the impact of the growing WiDS presence and communities in their countries. Christiane Kamdem, a native of Cameroon and WiDS Ambassador in Paris, is a senior data scientist at the French energy company Total where she analyzes data to create new services and improve market impact. WiDS Beirut Ambassador Lama Moussawi is an Associate Professor at the Olayan School of Business at the American University of Beirut (AUB) where she conducts research and teaches management science. Both women became WiDS ambassadors because they believe that role models, education, and community can make a real impact. “I believe in the vision of WiDS, which is to inspire, educate, and get educated in the field of data science, and to encourage and support more women and girls to join the field,” Lama says during a conversation with Margot Gerritsen, Stanford professor and host of the Women in Data Science podcast.Lama grew up in in Lebanon at a time of war. “It wasn't expected that girls would go to university. Girls were expected to get married and be mothers. So when I applied to universities and I got accepted at AUB with a scholarship, it was a great opportunity that I went for and then things started from there,” she says.She explains that young girls in the Middle East are very smart and have the quantitative skills, but they need support. WiDS provides support, guidance, and mentorship. “By showcasing role models, stellar female experts in the field, we are encouraging those young girls to not to be afraid to join,” she says. “Events like WiDS help us defy those barriers and those challenges that exist for women.” Christiane says the majority of the students in her grad school in Cameroon were men, and even now, she is the only woman on a team of five data scientists. After getting her Master’s degree, she started to participate in events to attract more young women in STEM fields. “It's very important to inspire the next generation, and it's important to build a kind of network of data scientists that can be models for the next generation. Because when you have a model, you want to be like this model,” says Christiane.Both women have helped to host regional WiDS events that are making an impact in their local communities. The most recent WiDS event in Paris had nearly 250 participants. Christiane says she not only gained a lot of technical knowledge about data science, she also heard the stories from many women who had to struggle in order to be where they are now. “It was very instructive to hear that various paths can lead to great achievements,” she says.Over the past two years the WiDS events at AUB in Beirut have gotten bigger and generated more awareness. In 2019, many more people were interested and wanted to attend the event. “We are seeing a lot of institutional support, and huge support of the local community,” says Lama. “More and more companies are participating, sending their employees, and contacting us to work on initiatives related to supporting women to join the data science field.”RELATED LINKSConnect with Christiane Kamdem on LinkedInConnect with Lama Moussawi on Twitter (@lama_moussawi) and LinkedInRead more about WiDS Paris and WiDS BeirutRead more about Total and the American University at BeirutConnect with Margot Gerritsen on Twitter (@margootjeg) and LinkedInFind out more about Margot on her Stanford ProfileFind out more about Margot on her personal website
In Middle Eastern and Islamic intellectual history, there has long been an assumption of decline in the eighteenth century, right before the nineteenth century, when the nahda or Arabic intellectual renaissance, began: intellectuals were caught in a period of stagnation and retrograde. Ahmad Dallal pushes back against this in Islam without Europe: Traditions of Reform in Eighteenth Century Islamic Thought (University of North Carolina Press, 2018), bringing together an intricate matrix of ideas stemming from multiple fields of knowledge. He pins this all together with the notion of reform, all the while reminding us that reform is also about tradition. He starts with Wahhabism, carefully dissecting the thought of Muhammad ibn Abdel Wahhab, and then connects it to eighteenth century responses to Wahhabism. From there on, he draws in Hadith studies, Sufism, the concept of Ijtihad in legal reasoning, and legal theory to paint a tapestry of interlaced and dynamic ideas. Overwhelmingly, Dallal demonstrates that reform was tied to giving practicing Muslims increasing control over their own faith. Beyond that, Dallal talks to us about Islamic studies, Orientalism, and modernity, elucidating why we need to bring the 18th century back into the fold of Islamic and Middle Eastern intellectual history. Ahmad Dallal is the dean of Georgetown University in Qatar. He was professor of history (2009-2017) and was the provost at the American University in Beirut (AUB) from 2009 to 2015. Nadirah Mansour is a graduate student at Princeton University’s Department of Near Eastern Studies working on the global intellectual history of the Arabic-language press. She tweets @NAMansour26 and produces another Middle-East and North Africa-related podcast: Reintroducing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Middle Eastern and Islamic intellectual history, there has long been an assumption of decline in the eighteenth century, right before the nineteenth century, when the nahda or Arabic intellectual renaissance, began: intellectuals were caught in a period of stagnation and retrograde. Ahmad Dallal pushes back against this in Islam without Europe: Traditions of Reform in Eighteenth Century Islamic Thought (University of North Carolina Press, 2018), bringing together an intricate matrix of ideas stemming from multiple fields of knowledge. He pins this all together with the notion of reform, all the while reminding us that reform is also about tradition. He starts with Wahhabism, carefully dissecting the thought of Muhammad ibn Abdel Wahhab, and then connects it to eighteenth century responses to Wahhabism. From there on, he draws in Hadith studies, Sufism, the concept of Ijtihad in legal reasoning, and legal theory to paint a tapestry of interlaced and dynamic ideas. Overwhelmingly, Dallal demonstrates that reform was tied to giving practicing Muslims increasing control over their own faith. Beyond that, Dallal talks to us about Islamic studies, Orientalism, and modernity, elucidating why we need to bring the 18th century back into the fold of Islamic and Middle Eastern intellectual history. Ahmad Dallal is the dean of Georgetown University in Qatar. He was professor of history (2009-2017) and was the provost at the American University in Beirut (AUB) from 2009 to 2015. Nadirah Mansour is a graduate student at Princeton University’s Department of Near Eastern Studies working on the global intellectual history of the Arabic-language press. She tweets @NAMansour26 and produces another Middle-East and North Africa-related podcast: Reintroducing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Middle Eastern and Islamic intellectual history, there has long been an assumption of decline in the eighteenth century, right before the nineteenth century, when the nahda or Arabic intellectual renaissance, began: intellectuals were caught in a period of stagnation and retrograde. Ahmad Dallal pushes back against this in Islam without Europe: Traditions of Reform in Eighteenth Century Islamic Thought (University of North Carolina Press, 2018), bringing together an intricate matrix of ideas stemming from multiple fields of knowledge. He pins this all together with the notion of reform, all the while reminding us that reform is also about tradition. He starts with Wahhabism, carefully dissecting the thought of Muhammad ibn Abdel Wahhab, and then connects it to eighteenth century responses to Wahhabism. From there on, he draws in Hadith studies, Sufism, the concept of Ijtihad in legal reasoning, and legal theory to paint a tapestry of interlaced and dynamic ideas. Overwhelmingly, Dallal demonstrates that reform was tied to giving practicing Muslims increasing control over their own faith. Beyond that, Dallal talks to us about Islamic studies, Orientalism, and modernity, elucidating why we need to bring the 18th century back into the fold of Islamic and Middle Eastern intellectual history. Ahmad Dallal is the dean of Georgetown University in Qatar. He was professor of history (2009-2017) and was the provost at the American University in Beirut (AUB) from 2009 to 2015. Nadirah Mansour is a graduate student at Princeton University’s Department of Near Eastern Studies working on the global intellectual history of the Arabic-language press. She tweets @NAMansour26 and produces another Middle-East and North Africa-related podcast: Reintroducing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Middle Eastern and Islamic intellectual history, there has long been an assumption of decline in the eighteenth century, right before the nineteenth century, when the nahda or Arabic intellectual renaissance, began: intellectuals were caught in a period of stagnation and retrograde. Ahmad Dallal pushes back against this in Islam without Europe: Traditions of Reform in Eighteenth Century Islamic Thought (University of North Carolina Press, 2018), bringing together an intricate matrix of ideas stemming from multiple fields of knowledge. He pins this all together with the notion of reform, all the while reminding us that reform is also about tradition. He starts with Wahhabism, carefully dissecting the thought of Muhammad ibn Abdel Wahhab, and then connects it to eighteenth century responses to Wahhabism. From there on, he draws in Hadith studies, Sufism, the concept of Ijtihad in legal reasoning, and legal theory to paint a tapestry of interlaced and dynamic ideas. Overwhelmingly, Dallal demonstrates that reform was tied to giving practicing Muslims increasing control over their own faith. Beyond that, Dallal talks to us about Islamic studies, Orientalism, and modernity, elucidating why we need to bring the 18th century back into the fold of Islamic and Middle Eastern intellectual history. Ahmad Dallal is the dean of Georgetown University in Qatar. He was professor of history (2009-2017) and was the provost at the American University in Beirut (AUB) from 2009 to 2015. Nadirah Mansour is a graduate student at Princeton University's Department of Near Eastern Studies working on the global intellectual history of the Arabic-language press. She tweets @NAMansour26 and produces another Middle-East and North Africa-related podcast: Reintroducing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Middle Eastern and Islamic intellectual history, there has long been an assumption of decline in the eighteenth century, right before the nineteenth century, when the nahda or Arabic intellectual renaissance, began: intellectuals were caught in a period of stagnation and retrograde. Ahmad Dallal pushes back against this in Islam without Europe: Traditions of Reform in Eighteenth Century Islamic Thought (University of North Carolina Press, 2018), bringing together an intricate matrix of ideas stemming from multiple fields of knowledge. He pins this all together with the notion of reform, all the while reminding us that reform is also about tradition. He starts with Wahhabism, carefully dissecting the thought of Muhammad ibn Abdel Wahhab, and then connects it to eighteenth century responses to Wahhabism. From there on, he draws in Hadith studies, Sufism, the concept of Ijtihad in legal reasoning, and legal theory to paint a tapestry of interlaced and dynamic ideas. Overwhelmingly, Dallal demonstrates that reform was tied to giving practicing Muslims increasing control over their own faith. Beyond that, Dallal talks to us about Islamic studies, Orientalism, and modernity, elucidating why we need to bring the 18th century back into the fold of Islamic and Middle Eastern intellectual history. Ahmad Dallal is the dean of Georgetown University in Qatar. He was professor of history (2009-2017) and was the provost at the American University in Beirut (AUB) from 2009 to 2015. Nadirah Mansour is a graduate student at Princeton University's Department of Near Eastern Studies working on the global intellectual history of the Arabic-language press. She tweets @NAMansour26 and produces another Middle-East and North Africa-related podcast: Reintroducing.
In Middle Eastern and Islamic intellectual history, there has long been an assumption of decline in the eighteenth century, right before the nineteenth century, when the nahda or Arabic intellectual renaissance, began: intellectuals were caught in a period of stagnation and retrograde. Ahmad Dallal pushes back against this in Islam without Europe: Traditions of Reform in Eighteenth Century Islamic Thought (University of North Carolina Press, 2018), bringing together an intricate matrix of ideas stemming from multiple fields of knowledge. He pins this all together with the notion of reform, all the while reminding us that reform is also about tradition. He starts with Wahhabism, carefully dissecting the thought of Muhammad ibn Abdel Wahhab, and then connects it to eighteenth century responses to Wahhabism. From there on, he draws in Hadith studies, Sufism, the concept of Ijtihad in legal reasoning, and legal theory to paint a tapestry of interlaced and dynamic ideas. Overwhelmingly, Dallal demonstrates that reform was tied to giving practicing Muslims increasing control over their own faith. Beyond that, Dallal talks to us about Islamic studies, Orientalism, and modernity, elucidating why we need to bring the 18th century back into the fold of Islamic and Middle Eastern intellectual history. Ahmad Dallal is the dean of Georgetown University in Qatar. He was professor of history (2009-2017) and was the provost at the American University in Beirut (AUB) from 2009 to 2015. Nadirah Mansour is a graduate student at Princeton University’s Department of Near Eastern Studies working on the global intellectual history of the Arabic-language press. She tweets @NAMansour26 and produces another Middle-East and North Africa-related podcast: Reintroducing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Middle Eastern and Islamic intellectual history, there has long been an assumption of decline in the eighteenth century, right before the nineteenth century, when the nahda or Arabic intellectual renaissance, began: intellectuals were caught in a period of stagnation and retrograde. Ahmad Dallal pushes back against this in Islam without Europe: Traditions of Reform in Eighteenth Century Islamic Thought (University of North Carolina Press, 2018), bringing together an intricate matrix of ideas stemming from multiple fields of knowledge. He pins this all together with the notion of reform, all the while reminding us that reform is also about tradition. He starts with Wahhabism, carefully dissecting the thought of Muhammad ibn Abdel Wahhab, and then connects it to eighteenth century responses to Wahhabism. From there on, he draws in Hadith studies, Sufism, the concept of Ijtihad in legal reasoning, and legal theory to paint a tapestry of interlaced and dynamic ideas. Overwhelmingly, Dallal demonstrates that reform was tied to giving practicing Muslims increasing control over their own faith. Beyond that, Dallal talks to us about Islamic studies, Orientalism, and modernity, elucidating why we need to bring the 18th century back into the fold of Islamic and Middle Eastern intellectual history. Ahmad Dallal is the dean of Georgetown University in Qatar. He was professor of history (2009-2017) and was the provost at the American University in Beirut (AUB) from 2009 to 2015. Nadirah Mansour is a graduate student at Princeton University’s Department of Near Eastern Studies working on the global intellectual history of the Arabic-language press. She tweets @NAMansour26 and produces another Middle-East and North Africa-related podcast: Reintroducing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dr. Samir Mahmoud and the team discuss variety of topics related to Islamic architecture, aesthetics, the modern world and philosophy. Dr. Samir Mahmoud, PhD. is a graduate of the University of Cambridge (2012) in Islamic Studies. He is currently Assistant Professor of Architectural History & Theory at the Lebanese American University (LAU). Between 2013-2016 he was Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture at the American University of Beirut (AUB). He was Postdoctoral Fellow at the Khalili Centre for Research in Art & Material Culture, University of Oxford (2012-2013) and Agha Khan Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT (2012). Dr Samir is also director of "The Living Turath Initiative." Living Turath (Living Tradition in English) is an educational initiative that enables Muslims to discover the wisdom of the Islamic tradition today. Its mission is to educate Muslims on the continued relevance and value of traditional Islamic perspectives and practices for their day-to-day lives. To this end, we organize educational workshops, lectures, & retreats. Dr Samir's interests vary widely and include: art & architecture (Islamic and Western), philosophy (Islamic, Neoplatonism, and Continental), Islamic studies, urban & landscape design, and psychology (particularly the dialogue between Islamic and Western ‘therapeutics of the soul’). He has lectured in the UK, Lebanon, & Australia. Please email us your comments, feedback, and questions at: boysinthecave@gmail.com, and leave a review and 5-star rating on iTunes! Follow us on: Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/boysinthecave/ Instagram – @boysinthecave -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Samir Mahmoud Online Visibility: https://www.facebook.com/samir.mahmoudmerabi -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shownotes [6:40] Islam and Sci fi discuss ion – of the tradition of storytelling in east and west; How to reconcile imagination and stories to Islam. [18:00] Islamic Architecture Philosophical cultural shifts [23:00] Kant, philosophical traditional onwards, of modernity forgetting and rejecting history. [25:00] What is architectural modernism – break with the past. [34:00] – Architecture is not neutral – it impacts on your lifestyle, happiness – colours, streets, use of materials, size of spaces. [36:00] – Late twentieth century becomes about how do we bring back what was lost – architecture theorists realise it has not been working. The great transformation (book) - capitalism. Before there was a higher ethics controlling the market, now it is the MARKET that creates those norms and codes and ethical values for us. The challenges of modernity are unique; qualitatively different o all that has come before; [38:30] Quranic discourse as universal [40:00] impulse in Islam towards non- figurative art Islam recognizes the truth of other traditions; other traditions not seen as entirely other. Islam is not just a perspective amongst others; it encompasses all in one – this seen in its artistic impulse; a likewise universality in the abstract. [46:30] No concrete image that could represent Islam Islam did not obliterate other culture’s forms Western culture had images at centre; in Islam patterns were central. [51:00] Islam took pride in borrowing from other cultures; there was no need to enclose upon ourselves Post-Mongol invasion – Islam rejuvenated and flourished. [56:30] Anecdotes on Hayban Laksan story and encounter with Germans in Spain. Last of the Mohicans – if we are able to communicate more effectively; by explaining our wisdom to others, instead of asking for our right [1:00:00] - Hadith then Plato and Aristotle; scholars though the Greek had revelation, or through their own fitrah were able to discover their wisdoms Islam brought into the 21st century by its fixation on patterns to convey; instead of image. Islamic architecture in the present: Cambridge Muslim College in the UK. Dome has become part of experience and meaning of what a mosque is – creating that continuity. [1:12:00] Mosques become a nexus for identity. A garden as welcoming; [1:15:00] Mystical geometry. Geometry as the realm behind the physical; instils a state of reverie. More accurate representation of reality – the geometry than what we see in reality; what people now call virtual reality. Virtual means something beyond imagination. No images dictated to you
In Middle Eastern history, the printing press has been both over- and under-assigned significance as an agent of social change. Hala Auji’s Printing Arab Modernity: Book Culture and the American Press in Nineteenth-Century Beirut (Brill, 2016) is not only a history of the American Protestant mission’s Arabic press in Beirut, which printed books for Ottoman readers during the 19th century, but a window into the world of Arabic printing at large. Auji uses art history to chart the transition between manuscripts and printed books, using a deep appreciation for Islamic art and book-production to highlight rupture and continuity. Text and non-textual elements are used to tell a story that was not local simply to Beirut, but had connections to the entire region and the development of printing in Arabic-language script at large. Part book-history, part art history, part intellectual history, Printing Arab Modernity ebbs between lithography and typography to tell an essential narrative of modern Middle Eastern history. Hala Auji is an assistant professor of art history in the Department of Fine Arts and Art History at the American University of Beirut (AUB). She holds a PhD in art history from Binghamton University, State University of New York, an MA in Art Criticism & Theory from Art Center College of Design, and a BFA in graphic design from the American University of Beirut. Her research interests include: Arabic book and print culture, 19th-century Islamic art and architecture and the| history of modern science in the Islamic world, amongst many more. She can also be found at https://www.halaauji.net/ Nadirah Mansour is a graduate student at Princeton University’s Department of Near Eastern Studies working on the global intellectual history of the Arabic-language press. She tweets @NAMansour26 and produces another Middle-East and North Africa-related podcast: Reintroducing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Middle Eastern history, the printing press has been both over- and under-assigned significance as an agent of social change. Hala Auji’s Printing Arab Modernity: Book Culture and the American Press in Nineteenth-Century Beirut (Brill, 2016) is not only a history of the American Protestant mission’s Arabic press in Beirut, which printed books for Ottoman readers during the 19th century, but a window into the world of Arabic printing at large. Auji uses art history to chart the transition between manuscripts and printed books, using a deep appreciation for Islamic art and book-production to highlight rupture and continuity. Text and non-textual elements are used to tell a story that was not local simply to Beirut, but had connections to the entire region and the development of printing in Arabic-language script at large. Part book-history, part art history, part intellectual history, Printing Arab Modernity ebbs between lithography and typography to tell an essential narrative of modern Middle Eastern history. Hala Auji is an assistant professor of art history in the Department of Fine Arts and Art History at the American University of Beirut (AUB). She holds a PhD in art history from Binghamton University, State University of New York, an MA in Art Criticism & Theory from Art Center College of Design, and a BFA in graphic design from the American University of Beirut. Her research interests include: Arabic book and print culture, 19th-century Islamic art and architecture and the| history of modern science in the Islamic world, amongst many more. She can also be found at https://www.halaauji.net/ Nadirah Mansour is a graduate student at Princeton University’s Department of Near Eastern Studies working on the global intellectual history of the Arabic-language press. She tweets @NAMansour26 and produces another Middle-East and North Africa-related podcast: Reintroducing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Middle Eastern history, the printing press has been both over- and under-assigned significance as an agent of social change. Hala Auji’s Printing Arab Modernity: Book Culture and the American Press in Nineteenth-Century Beirut (Brill, 2016) is not only a history of the American Protestant mission’s Arabic press in Beirut, which printed books for Ottoman readers during the 19th century, but a window into the world of Arabic printing at large. Auji uses art history to chart the transition between manuscripts and printed books, using a deep appreciation for Islamic art and book-production to highlight rupture and continuity. Text and non-textual elements are used to tell a story that was not local simply to Beirut, but had connections to the entire region and the development of printing in Arabic-language script at large. Part book-history, part art history, part intellectual history, Printing Arab Modernity ebbs between lithography and typography to tell an essential narrative of modern Middle Eastern history. Hala Auji is an assistant professor of art history in the Department of Fine Arts and Art History at the American University of Beirut (AUB). She holds a PhD in art history from Binghamton University, State University of New York, an MA in Art Criticism & Theory from Art Center College of Design, and a BFA in graphic design from the American University of Beirut. Her research interests include: Arabic book and print culture, 19th-century Islamic art and architecture and the| history of modern science in the Islamic world, amongst many more. She can also be found at https://www.halaauji.net/ Nadirah Mansour is a graduate student at Princeton University’s Department of Near Eastern Studies working on the global intellectual history of the Arabic-language press. She tweets @NAMansour26 and produces another Middle-East and North Africa-related podcast: Reintroducing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Middle Eastern history, the printing press has been both over- and under-assigned significance as an agent of social change. Hala Auji’s Printing Arab Modernity: Book Culture and the American Press in Nineteenth-Century Beirut (Brill, 2016) is not only a history of the American Protestant mission’s Arabic press in Beirut, which printed books for Ottoman readers during the 19th century, but a window into the world of Arabic printing at large. Auji uses art history to chart the transition between manuscripts and printed books, using a deep appreciation for Islamic art and book-production to highlight rupture and continuity. Text and non-textual elements are used to tell a story that was not local simply to Beirut, but had connections to the entire region and the development of printing in Arabic-language script at large. Part book-history, part art history, part intellectual history, Printing Arab Modernity ebbs between lithography and typography to tell an essential narrative of modern Middle Eastern history. Hala Auji is an assistant professor of art history in the Department of Fine Arts and Art History at the American University of Beirut (AUB). She holds a PhD in art history from Binghamton University, State University of New York, an MA in Art Criticism & Theory from Art Center College of Design, and a BFA in graphic design from the American University of Beirut. Her research interests include: Arabic book and print culture, 19th-century Islamic art and architecture and the| history of modern science in the Islamic world, amongst many more. She can also be found at https://www.halaauji.net/ Nadirah Mansour is a graduate student at Princeton University’s Department of Near Eastern Studies working on the global intellectual history of the Arabic-language press. She tweets @NAMansour26 and produces another Middle-East and North Africa-related podcast: Reintroducing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Middle Eastern history, the printing press has been both over- and under-assigned significance as an agent of social change. Hala Auji’s Printing Arab Modernity: Book Culture and the American Press in Nineteenth-Century Beirut (Brill, 2016) is not only a history of the American Protestant mission’s Arabic press in Beirut, which printed books for Ottoman readers during the 19th century, but a window into the world of Arabic printing at large. Auji uses art history to chart the transition between manuscripts and printed books, using a deep appreciation for Islamic art and book-production to highlight rupture and continuity. Text and non-textual elements are used to tell a story that was not local simply to Beirut, but had connections to the entire region and the development of printing in Arabic-language script at large. Part book-history, part art history, part intellectual history, Printing Arab Modernity ebbs between lithography and typography to tell an essential narrative of modern Middle Eastern history. Hala Auji is an assistant professor of art history in the Department of Fine Arts and Art History at the American University of Beirut (AUB). She holds a PhD in art history from Binghamton University, State University of New York, an MA in Art Criticism & Theory from Art Center College of Design, and a BFA in graphic design from the American University of Beirut. Her research interests include: Arabic book and print culture, 19th-century Islamic art and architecture and the| history of modern science in the Islamic world, amongst many more. She can also be found at https://www.halaauji.net/ Nadirah Mansour is a graduate student at Princeton University’s Department of Near Eastern Studies working on the global intellectual history of the Arabic-language press. She tweets @NAMansour26 and produces another Middle-East and North Africa-related podcast: Reintroducing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In Middle Eastern history, the printing press has been both over- and under-assigned significance as an agent of social change. Hala Auji's Printing Arab Modernity: Book Culture and the American Press in Nineteenth-Century Beirut (Brill, 2016) is not only a history of the American Protestant mission's Arabic press in Beirut, which printed books for Ottoman readers during the 19th century, but a window into the world of Arabic printing at large. Auji uses art history to chart the transition between manuscripts and printed books, using a deep appreciation for Islamic art and book-production to highlight rupture and continuity. Text and non-textual elements are used to tell a story that was not local simply to Beirut, but had connections to the entire region and the development of printing in Arabic-language script at large. Part book-history, part art history, part intellectual history, Printing Arab Modernity ebbs between lithography and typography to tell an essential narrative of modern Middle Eastern history. Hala Auji is an assistant professor of art history in the Department of Fine Arts and Art History at the American University of Beirut (AUB). She holds a PhD in art history from Binghamton University, State University of New York, an MA in Art Criticism & Theory from Art Center College of Design, and a BFA in graphic design from the American University of Beirut. Her research interests include: Arabic book and print culture, 19th-century Islamic art and architecture and the| history of modern science in the Islamic world, amongst many more. She can also be found at https://www.halaauji.net/ Nadirah Mansour is a graduate student at Princeton University's Department of Near Eastern Studies working on the global intellectual history of the Arabic-language press. She tweets @NAMansour26 and produces another Middle-East and North Africa-related podcast: Reintroducing.
In Middle Eastern history, the printing press has been both over- and under-assigned significance as an agent of social change. Hala Auji’s Printing Arab Modernity: Book Culture and the American Press in Nineteenth-Century Beirut (Brill, 2016) is not only a history of the American Protestant mission’s Arabic press in Beirut, which printed books for Ottoman readers during the 19th century, but a window into the world of Arabic printing at large. Auji uses art history to chart the transition between manuscripts and printed books, using a deep appreciation for Islamic art and book-production to highlight rupture and continuity. Text and non-textual elements are used to tell a story that was not local simply to Beirut, but had connections to the entire region and the development of printing in Arabic-language script at large. Part book-history, part art history, part intellectual history, Printing Arab Modernity ebbs between lithography and typography to tell an essential narrative of modern Middle Eastern history. Hala Auji is an assistant professor of art history in the Department of Fine Arts and Art History at the American University of Beirut (AUB). She holds a PhD in art history from Binghamton University, State University of New York, an MA in Art Criticism & Theory from Art Center College of Design, and a BFA in graphic design from the American University of Beirut. Her research interests include: Arabic book and print culture, 19th-century Islamic art and architecture and the| history of modern science in the Islamic world, amongst many more. She can also be found at https://www.halaauji.net/ Nadirah Mansour is a graduate student at Princeton University’s Department of Near Eastern Studies working on the global intellectual history of the Arabic-language press. She tweets @NAMansour26 and produces another Middle-East and North Africa-related podcast: Reintroducing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Lecture and discussion The Making of a Terrorist: What Can Psychiatry Tell Us? Joseph El-Khoury Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, AUB A common public assumption is that violent acts committed by politically motivated individuals are at least in part the result of some diagnosable mental disorder or, failing that, an unidentified disease process. The casual use of clinical psychiatric terms in the media but also by government officials in their communication on terrorism-related matters seems to confirm the public impression. The hypothesis of a mental abnormality being a primary motivator can be appealing in political terms. Paradoxically the ‘normality’ of the concerned individuals is also highlighted to justify the failure to identify them as a threat before they act. In his presentation, Joseph El-Khoury will seek to analyze the application of psychiatric diagnosis in the context of terrorism, review the literature and apply it to case studies in the current geopolitical context. Joseph El-Khoury, MD, MRCPsych, is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the American University of Beirut (AUB). After qualifying as a medical doctor in London in 2002 he trained at St George’s and Oxford, obtaining Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (MRCPsych) in 2006. He holds a CCT in Adult and Substance Misuse Psychiatry. He currently directs the newly created Psychosis Recovery Outreach Program. He also acts as the Global Mental Health Scholar for the Arab region for a joint program by Columbia University and the World Health Organization on the revision of mental disorders classification (ICD).
“The Crime of Genocide and the MENA Region: Lessons Learnt for Prevention or Protection” Seminar On the Occasion of the “International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime”, the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) and the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR) in Collaboration with Potsdam Lepsius House, Research Center for Genocide Studies – Germany, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs – AUB, and the Foundation for Human and Humanitarian Rights - Lebanon (FHHRL) Opening Remarks Berge Setrakian, President of AGBU Dr. Abdel Salam Sid Ahmed, Regional Representative of OHCHR Choucri Sader, President of the Judicial State Council of Lebanon Session 1 MENA and Gross HR Violations; Realities in the Past, Case Studies, Failures and Successes 1. Prior to 1948: The Armenian Genocide Dr. Rolf Hosfeld, LepsiusHaus Potsdam, Germany 2. Post 1948 (under IHRL, ICL and IHL) (Lebanon, Iraq and others) Dr. Antoine Sfeir, American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon 3. Currently: Never again is happening again. Cases from Iraq (Yazidi) and Syria Dr. Nidal Jurdi, OHCHR/AUB, Lebanon Moderator: Dr. Carmen Abou Jaoudé, Researcher at the Center of Studies for the Modern Arab World at University Saint Joseph, Lebanon Session 2 The International Protection System: its contribution and shortages to prevent and punish the crime of Genocide: 1. International legal system versus political realities (International justice versus realism): What is missing? Professor Kai Ambos, Judge District Court Göttingen, Universität Göttingen, Germany 2. Domestic protection systems– strengths and weaknesses Dr. Nidal Jurdi, OHCHR/AUB, Lebanon 3. The role of media, civil society and public opinion Dr. Sari Hanafi, AUB, Lebanon Moderator: Mr. Wail Kheir, Managing Director of FHHRL Seminar Session 3 How to Prevent Genocides? What’s next? 1. Legally and politically Professor Kai Ambos, Universität Göttingen, Germany 2. Reflection on the initiative of “Prohibition of incitement to national, racial or religious hatred in International Law” - Rabat Plat of Action Dr. Abdel Salam Sid Ahmed, OHCHR, Lebanon 3. The role of media, civil society and public opinion Mr. Gilbert Doumit, Beyond Reform and Development, Saint Joseph University, Lebanon Moderator: Mrs. Lynn Maalouf, Deputy Director of Research, Amnesty International, MENA Office Closing Remarks What is next for MENA: Final Discussion and Conclusion Dr. Nidal Jurdi, OHCHR/AUB, Lebanon Mr. Wail Kheir, Managing Director of FHHRL
“The Crime of Genocide and the MENA Region: Lessons Learnt for Prevention or Protection” Seminar On the Occasion of the “International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime”, the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) and the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR) in Collaboration with Potsdam Lepsius House, Research Center for Genocide Studies – Germany, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs – AUB, and the Foundation for Human and Humanitarian Rights - Lebanon (FHHRL) Opening Remarks Berge Setrakian, President of AGBU Dr. Abdel Salam Sid Ahmed, Regional Representative of OHCHR Choucri Sader, President of the Judicial State Council of Lebanon Session 1 MENA and Gross HR Violations; Realities in the Past, Case Studies, Failures and Successes 1. Prior to 1948: The Armenian Genocide Dr. Rolf Hosfeld, LepsiusHaus Potsdam, Germany 2. Post 1948 (under IHRL, ICL and IHL) (Lebanon, Iraq and others) Dr. Antoine Sfeir, American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon 3. Currently: Never again is happening again. Cases from Iraq (Yazidi) and Syria Dr. Nidal Jurdi, OHCHR/AUB, Lebanon Moderator: Dr. Carmen Abou Jaoudé, Researcher at the Center of Studies for the Modern Arab World at University Saint Joseph, Lebanon Session 2 The International Protection System: its contribution and shortages to prevent and punish the crime of Genocide: 1. International legal system versus political realities (International justice versus realism): What is missing? Professor Kai Ambos, Judge District Court Göttingen, Universität Göttingen, Germany 2. Domestic protection systems– strengths and weaknesses Dr. Nidal Jurdi, OHCHR/AUB, Lebanon 3. The role of media, civil society and public opinion Dr. Sari Hanafi, AUB, Lebanon Moderator: Mr. Wail Kheir, Managing Director of FHHRL Seminar Session 3 How to Prevent Genocides? What’s next? 1. Legally and politically Professor Kai Ambos, Universität Göttingen, Germany 2. Reflection on the initiative of “Prohibition of incitement to national, racial or religious hatred in International Law” - Rabat Plat of Action Dr. Abdel Salam Sid Ahmed, OHCHR, Lebanon 3. The role of media, civil society and public opinion Mr. Gilbert Doumit, Beyond Reform and Development, Saint Joseph University, Lebanon Moderator: Mrs. Lynn Maalouf, Deputy Director of Research, Amnesty International, MENA Office Closing Remarks What is next for MENA: Final Discussion and Conclusion Dr. Nidal Jurdi, OHCHR/AUB, Lebanon Mr. Wail Kheir, Managing Director of FHHRL
“The Crime of Genocide and the MENA Region: Lessons Learnt for Prevention or Protection” Seminar On the Occasion of the “International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime”, the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) and the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR) in Collaboration with Potsdam Lepsius House, Research Center for Genocide Studies – Germany, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs – AUB, and the Foundation for Human and Humanitarian Rights - Lebanon (FHHRL) Opening Remarks Berge Setrakian, President of AGBU Dr. Abdel Salam Sid Ahmed, Regional Representative of OHCHR Choucri Sader, President of the Judicial State Council of Lebanon Session 1 MENA and Gross HR Violations; Realities in the Past, Case Studies, Failures and Successes 1. Prior to 1948: The Armenian Genocide Dr. Rolf Hosfeld, LepsiusHaus Potsdam, Germany 2. Post 1948 (under IHRL, ICL and IHL) (Lebanon, Iraq and others) Dr. Antoine Sfeir, American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon 3. Currently: Never again is happening again. Cases from Iraq (Yazidi) and Syria Dr. Nidal Jurdi, OHCHR/AUB, Lebanon Moderator: Dr. Carmen Abou Jaoudé, Researcher at the Center of Studies for the Modern Arab World at University Saint Joseph, Lebanon Session 2 The International Protection System: its contribution and shortages to prevent and punish the crime of Genocide: 1. International legal system versus political realities (International justice versus realism): What is missing? Professor Kai Ambos, Judge District Court Göttingen, Universität Göttingen, Germany 2. Domestic protection systems– strengths and weaknesses Dr. Nidal Jurdi, OHCHR/AUB, Lebanon 3. The role of media, civil society and public opinion Dr. Sari Hanafi, AUB, Lebanon Moderator: Mr. Wail Kheir, Managing Director of FHHRL Seminar Session 3 How to Prevent Genocides? What’s next? 1. Legally and politically Professor Kai Ambos, Universität Göttingen, Germany 2. Reflection on the initiative of “Prohibition of incitement to national, racial or religious hatred in International Law” - Rabat Plat of Action Dr. Abdel Salam Sid Ahmed, OHCHR, Lebanon 3. The role of media, civil society and public opinion Mr. Gilbert Doumit, Beyond Reform and Development, Saint Joseph University, Lebanon Moderator: Mrs. Lynn Maalouf, Deputy Director of Research, Amnesty International, MENA Office Closing Remarks What is next for MENA: Final Discussion and Conclusion Dr. Nidal Jurdi, OHCHR/AUB, Lebanon Mr. Wail Kheir, Managing Director of FHHRL
“The Crime of Genocide and the MENA Region: Lessons Learnt for Prevention or Protection” Seminar On the Occasion of the “International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime”, the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) and the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR) in Collaboration with Potsdam Lepsius House, Research Center for Genocide Studies – Germany, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs – AUB, and the Foundation for Human and Humanitarian Rights - Lebanon (FHHRL) Opening Remarks Berge Setrakian, President of AGBU Dr. Abdel Salam Sid Ahmed, Regional Representative of OHCHR Choucri Sader, President of the Judicial State Council of Lebanon Session 1 MENA and Gross HR Violations; Realities in the Past, Case Studies, Failures and Successes 1. Prior to 1948: The Armenian Genocide Dr. Rolf Hosfeld, LepsiusHaus Potsdam, Germany 2. Post 1948 (under IHRL, ICL and IHL) (Lebanon, Iraq and others) Dr. Antoine Sfeir, American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon 3. Currently: Never again is happening again. Cases from Iraq (Yazidi) and Syria Dr. Nidal Jurdi, OHCHR/AUB, Lebanon Moderator: Dr. Carmen Abou Jaoudé, Researcher at the Center of Studies for the Modern Arab World at University Saint Joseph, Lebanon Session 2 The International Protection System: its contribution and shortages to prevent and punish the crime of Genocide: 1. International legal system versus political realities (International justice versus realism): What is missing? Professor Kai Ambos, Judge District Court Göttingen, Universität Göttingen, Germany 2. Domestic protection systems– strengths and weaknesses Dr. Nidal Jurdi, OHCHR/AUB, Lebanon 3. The role of media, civil society and public opinion Dr. Sari Hanafi, AUB, Lebanon Moderator: Mr. Wail Kheir, Managing Director of FHHRL Seminar Session 3 How to Prevent Genocides? What’s next? 1. Legally and politically Professor Kai Ambos, Universität Göttingen, Germany 2. Reflection on the initiative of “Prohibition of incitement to national, racial or religious hatred in International Law” - Rabat Plat of Action Dr. Abdel Salam Sid Ahmed, OHCHR, Lebanon 3. The role of media, civil society and public opinion Mr. Gilbert Doumit, Beyond Reform and Development, Saint Joseph University, Lebanon Moderator: Mrs. Lynn Maalouf, Deputy Director of Research, Amnesty International, MENA Office Closing Remarks What is next for MENA: Final Discussion and Conclusion Dr. Nidal Jurdi, OHCHR/AUB, Lebanon Mr. Wail Kheir, Managing Director of FHHRL
“The Crime of Genocide and the MENA Region: Lessons Learnt for Prevention or Protection” Seminar On the Occasion of the “International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime”, the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) and the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR) in Collaboration with Potsdam Lepsius House, Research Center for Genocide Studies – Germany, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs – AUB, and the Foundation for Human and Humanitarian Rights - Lebanon (FHHRL) Opening Remarks Berge Setrakian, President of AGBU Dr. Abdel Salam Sid Ahmed, Regional Representative of OHCHR Choucri Sader, President of the Judicial State Council of Lebanon Session 1 MENA and Gross HR Violations; Realities in the Past, Case Studies, Failures and Successes 1. Prior to 1948: The Armenian Genocide Dr. Rolf Hosfeld, LepsiusHaus Potsdam, Germany 2. Post 1948 (under IHRL, ICL and IHL) (Lebanon, Iraq and others) Dr. Antoine Sfeir, American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon 3. Currently: Never again is happening again. Cases from Iraq (Yazidi) and Syria Dr. Nidal Jurdi, OHCHR/AUB, Lebanon Moderator: Dr. Carmen Abou Jaoudé, Researcher at the Center of Studies for the Modern Arab World at University Saint Joseph, Lebanon Session 2 The International Protection System: its contribution and shortages to prevent and punish the crime of Genocide: 1. International legal system versus political realities (International justice versus realism): What is missing? Professor Kai Ambos, Judge District Court Göttingen, Universität Göttingen, Germany 2. Domestic protection systems– strengths and weaknesses Dr. Nidal Jurdi, OHCHR/AUB, Lebanon 3. The role of media, civil society and public opinion Dr. Sari Hanafi, AUB, Lebanon Moderator: Mr. Wail Kheir, Managing Director of FHHRL Seminar Session 3 How to Prevent Genocides? What’s next? 1. Legally and politically Professor Kai Ambos, Universität Göttingen, Germany 2. Reflection on the initiative of “Prohibition of incitement to national, racial or religious hatred in International Law” - Rabat Plat of Action Dr. Abdel Salam Sid Ahmed, OHCHR, Lebanon 3. The role of media, civil society and public opinion Mr. Gilbert Doumit, Beyond Reform and Development, Saint Joseph University, Lebanon Moderator: Mrs. Lynn Maalouf, Deputy Director of Research, Amnesty International, MENA Office Closing Remarks What is next for MENA: Final Discussion and Conclusion Dr. Nidal Jurdi, OHCHR/AUB, Lebanon Mr. Wail Kheir, Managing Director of FHHRL
Speakers: Martha Mundy, LSE; Rami Zurayk, American University of Beirut (AUB); Cynthia Gharios, AUB Chair: Michael Mason, LSE This event is the culmination of field research carried out over four years in collaboration with the American University of Beirut. Speaking to the work of the project ‘The Palimpsest of Agrarian Change’, Martha Mundy and Rami Zurayk and their colleagues Saker El-Nour and Cynthia Gharios present their findings on agrarian change in Lebanon. Food insecurity and ‘land grabs’ are as much a part of the Middle Eastern landscape as they are for neighbouring regions such as Africa. The historical layers that lie behind the conflicts over the capacity to produce food and access the land remain, however, remarkably poorly documented. This project documents shifts in the forms of food production and the political ecology of urbanisation that can be traced back to the legacies of Ottoman and French Mandate rule and, more recently, war and labour migration. The result is both a critique (and contribution) to the historiography of South Lebanon and an essay in a history of landscape grounded in the materiality of land, labour, food and the making of space. Recorded on 29 September 2015.
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