Past Othman Lectures

May 18, 2022  |  6pm  |  David Rubenstein Forum 

Daring to Dream: Arab Americans Beyond Racism and War

Nadine Naber, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Professor, Gender and Women's Studies; Global Asian Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago

December 9  |  5pm  |  Online Event

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
A History of Settler Colonial Conquest & Resistance, 1917-2017

Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Columbia University

May 15
6:30pm  |  International House Assembly Hall 
8:00pm  |  Iftar  |  Ida Noyes Hall

At an Impasse: Understanding the "Deal of the Century"

Noura Erakat, Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Rutgers

May 2  |  4:30pm  |  Saieh Hall, Room 146

Palestinian Cultural Resistance from the Nakba to Today

Dr. Maha Nassar, Associate Professor, Modern Middle East History, Islamic Studies, The University of Arizona

May 11  |  5:30pm  |  University of Chicago Gleacher Center

The Media, the Middle East and the Myth of Sectarianism

Mehdi Hasan, MSNBC

April 24  |  5pm  |  Saieh Hall, Room 146

The Turkish Complex: Bigman, Hero, Traitor

Jenny White, Professor of Anthropology, Boston University 

January 21  |  5:30pm  |  International House Assembly Hall

Iranian Intellectuals and the Islamic Revolution 
Then and Now

Ali Banuazizi, Research Professor, Boston College

November 13  |  5pm  |  Social Sciences 122

Egypt in Revolution: When all is politics and few think seriously about the parlous state of the economy  

Roger Owen, A. J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History, Harvard 

November 7  |  5:30pm  |  International House Assembly Hall

When Islamists Rule: Economic Policies between Ideology and Pragmatism  

Ibrahim Warde, Adjunct Professor of International Business, Tufts University