Thursday, October 1, 2020, 1:00 PM-2:30 PM EDT
Film screening and Q&A with Director Marzia Rumi in celebration of Latin American Heritage Month.
This event will take place virtually. Please click here to join the Zoom meeting. Meeting ID: 919 245 9793 Passcode: 777043
Congratulations to professor Hisham Aidi for being awarded a Soros Equality Fellowship. Professor Aidi is one of a group of 13 remarkable individuals awarded the Soros Equality fellowship in 2020. The program, now in its fourth year, is designed to help incubate innovators and risk-takers striving to create and develop new ways of addressing the systemic causes and symptoms of racial disparity and discrimination.
Hisham Aidi will create a web documentary series and book project to study the rise of Afro-Arab and Amazigh migration and activism in the United States over the last 25 years.
Aidi is senior lecturer at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He is the author of Redeploying the State (Palgrave 2008), a comparative study of market reform and labor movements in Latin America; co-editor, with the late Manning Marable, of Black Routes to Islam (Palgrave 2009); and author of Rebel Music: Race, Empire and the New Muslim Youth Culture (Pantheon 2014). As a cultural reporter, his work has appeared in the Atlantic, the Nation, and the New Yorker.
Aidi is the recipient of the Carnegie Scholar Award (2008), the American Book Award (2015), and Hip Hop Scholar Award (2015). He is currently a scholar-in-residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, working on a project titled “W.E.B. Du Bois and the Afro-Arab World.” His most recent documentary short is titled Malcolm X and the Sudanese. He received his PhD in political science from Columbia University.
Monday, October 5, 2020, 1:00 PM-2:00 PM
Registration for this Zoom webinar is required. Register here.
Located in Jerusalem, the Khalidiyya Library is arguably the most important manuscript collection in Palestine and one of the most significant family-owned Islamic manuscripts collections in the world. The library’s collection was recently digitized and made available to scholars by the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (HMML). The accessibility of the collection to users around the world will surely open up new avenues for the study of the history and intellectual life of Palestine and the wider region. The HMML also has digitized two other important manuscript collections from Jerusalem: the Āl Budeiri Library and the Library of al-Issaf al-Nashashibi.
CPS will celebrate the new accessibility of these collections in an introductory session on Oct. 5, moderated by Professor Rashid Khalidi. Speakers will include representatives of the Khalidiyya Library and of HMML, who will give an overview of the history and contents of the collection, with the participation of librarians and curators from the Columbia and NYU Libraries.
Thursday, September 24, 2020, 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Join us September 24th for an unusual Sharia Workshop; a roundtable bringing together six graduate students to present their original work.
This workshop will take place virtually. Please register here to receive the Zoom link.