Book talk with authors Mike Omer-Man and Sarah Leah Whitson, Moderated by professor Lisa Anderson.

Join Professor Sevea Teran, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Harvard University, to discuss his essay Singapore’s Islamic Pasts: Alexanders in an Island Below the Winds.

This event will bring together feminist writers, artists, curators and academics who work in the context of South Kurdistan. In their conversation they will center the question of how artists and activists in the region address issues around body politics, religious conservatism and intimacy.

Join us on our next Sharia Workshop with Professor Devin Stewart to discuss the paper “Taqīyah and Tawriyah: Dissimulation and the Art of Ambiguity”

Join our upcoming Islamic History Workshop and explore Singapore's Islamic Pasts: Alexanders in an Island Below the Winds.

Join us for a book talk with Professor C. Cehyun Arslan on “The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures” accompanied Professor Yaseen Noorani .

Join us for a book talk with Beeta Baghoolizadeh (Princeton University) on her recently published book, The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran;

The Middle East Institute at Columbia University invites applications for an appointment as Arcapita Visiting Professor of Modern Arab Studies for a one-semester position for the Fall 2024 or Spring 2025 semester!

Join us for a talk with Professor Elisabetta Benigni and Professor Pier Mattia Tommasino as they explore the influence of the Divine Comedy on Arabic literature and intellectual debates in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Join us our upcoming Islamic History Workshop and delve into the intricacies of early modern Persian chronicles, dissecting the artistry of “dibachah” and unraveling the mysteries of “khatimah”.

Join us to explore the Material Culture in the Poetry of Sā’eb Tabrizi!

Join us for this book talk about Naṣr Allāh Munshī's Persian translation/adaptation of Kalīla and Dimna, written in the 1140s CE and dedicated to the Ghaznavid sultan Bahrāmshāh.

We are excited to welcome Professor Dana Lee, the Spring 2024 Mahdi Visiting Research Scholar!

Join us for a captivating discussion with Artist Sama Alshaibi on re-imagining the female figure in war & conflict.

Join us on our next Sharia Workshop with Dr Mariam Sheibani to discuss the paper “A Tale of Two Ṭarīqas: The Iraqi and Khurasani Shāfiʿī Communities in the fourth/tenth and fifth/eleventh centuries”

Syrian Intellectual Yassin al-Hai Saleh in conversation with Marcelle Shehwaro & Fadi Bardawil.

Join Associate Professor Nancy Khalek for the second Islamic History Workshop of the semester on Thursday November 09 at 4:10pm in Knox Hall, 207.

Join us for the New York Premiere of May Masri’s film Beirut: Eye of the Storm

Join us on 10/27 for a Book Talk with Professor Suzanne Stetkevych and Dr Huda Fakhreddine.