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.

Join us on our next Sharia Workshop with Dr Ari Schribber to discuss the paper “Is There a ‘Jury’ in Islamic Law? The Twelve-Witness Lafīfiyya Testimony in Moroccan Judicial Practice”

Join us for an exciting two-day workshop that will take as its objective a global history of translation and language in both the dissemination and reception of Ibn al-'Arabi's writings through discourse, music, and art.

Join us to discuss “The Cunning of Gender Violence: Securitization and the Violence of Law” .

Join us on our next Sharia Workshop with Professor Samy Ayoub to discuss the chapter The Obscure Appellate:
The Egyptian Islamic Supreme Court, 1898-1955.

Join us for a book talk with Hafsa Kanjwal and Mohamad Junaid on Colonizing Kashmir: State Building Under Indian Occupation.

Join author Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik to discuss her book “Maghreb Noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and the Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future,” on Thursday, September 28 at 4:10pm in Fayerweather 411.

In conversation with visual and performance artist Annabel Daou, Columbia University professor Kathryn Spellman Poots and Brown University professor Nadje Al-Ali, will introduce her art and the social and political significance of her work.

This conversation is part of a joint Middle East Institute at Columbia University and the Center for Middle East Studies at Brown University series on gender, art, and body politics in the Middle East and its diasporas.

Join Professor John Tolan for the first Islamic History Workshop of the semester on Wednesday, September 27th at 4:10pm in Knox Hall, 207.

Join Professor John Tolan for the first Islamic History Workshop of the semester on Wednesday, September 27th at 4:10pm in Knox Hall, 207.

Join us at 6pm on September 13 for the first event of the year, a panel and book launch for The Cunning of Gender Violence: Geopolitics and Feminism!

Applications are open for a Visiting Fellow In Gender, Body Politics and Iranian Art!