Upcoming Events
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Alpern Room (LN 2200)
Speaker: Maher Bahloul, 黑料视频
Chair: Omid Ghaemmaghami, 黑料视频
Discussant: Greg Key, 黑料视频
"This talk highlights the results of an initial investigation where 鈥榥ative鈥 speakers of the Pidgin Arabic language show a great deal of perplexity between private and public use of the language (Dorian, 2010), between the language鈥檚 necessity and luxury, and between its high and low prestige, all intertwined within a communicative context shaped by nativity, need, and social status. It is a psychological and sociolinguistic situation where reticence, fear, and courage play salient roles vis-脿-vis this new emerging language. Results of previous and current surveys show such mixed attitudes towards this Pidgin language with some wishing it had never existed and others championing its founders, its speakers, and putting it at the forefront of a number of emerging filmmaking and digital platforms."
Maher Bahloul holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University in Linguistics and an MA in Linguistics from Sorbonne University in Paris, France. He has taught courses in language (English, Arabic, and French), translation, and linguistics for the past 30 years. His research interest covers issues in theoretical linguistics, applied linguistics, the sociology of language, teaching and learning pedagogy, the use of arts in education, and Spoken Arabic varieties.聽He is currently a聽Lecturer at the Department of Middle East and Ancient Mediterranean Studies.
Light refreshments will be served.
Chair: Omid Ghaemmaghami, 黑料视频
Discussant: Greg Key, 黑料视频
"This talk highlights the results of an initial investigation where 鈥榥ative鈥 speakers of the Pidgin Arabic language show a great deal of perplexity between private and public use of the language (Dorian, 2010), between the language鈥檚 necessity and luxury, and between its high and low prestige, all intertwined within a communicative context shaped by nativity, need, and social status. It is a psychological and sociolinguistic situation where reticence, fear, and courage play salient roles vis-脿-vis this new emerging language. Results of previous and current surveys show such mixed attitudes towards this Pidgin language with some wishing it had never existed and others championing its founders, its speakers, and putting it at the forefront of a number of emerging filmmaking and digital platforms."
Maher Bahloul holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University in Linguistics and an MA in Linguistics from Sorbonne University in Paris, France. He has taught courses in language (English, Arabic, and French), translation, and linguistics for the past 30 years. His research interest covers issues in theoretical linguistics, applied linguistics, the sociology of language, teaching and learning pedagogy, the use of arts in education, and Spoken Arabic varieties.聽He is currently a聽Lecturer at the Department of Middle East and Ancient Mediterranean Studies.
Light refreshments will be served.
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Alpern Room (LN 2200)
Lecture title: "Mormons and Armenians in the Ottoman Empire"
Speaker: Kent Schull, Associate Professor of History at 黑料视频
Speaker: Kent Schull, Associate Professor of History at 黑料视频
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Lecture title:聽"Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia"
Speaker: Natalie Koch, Professor of Geography and the Environment at Syracuse University
Speaker: Natalie Koch, Professor of Geography and the Environment at Syracuse University
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Lecture title: "Under the Same Sky: Everyday Politics of Religious Difference in Turkey"
Speaker: Secil Dagtas, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Waterloo University
Speaker: Secil Dagtas, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Waterloo University
- Past Events
- Great Lakes Ottoman Workshop (GLOW)
- Memorial Walk - Armenian Genocide
- Middle East and North Africa Culture Night and Calligraphy Workshop with Nada Odeh, at American Civic Association
- Calligraphy Workshop with Syrian Artist, Nada Odeh, at BU
- Karagoz Workshop
- Book Talk: "Stranger in the Desert: A Family Story" by Jordan Salama
- Book Talk: "Devotion to the Administrative State" by Mona Oraby (Howard University)
- Book Talk: "Domicide: Architecture, War and the Destruction of Home in Syria" by Ammar Azzouz
- Film screening of "Boycott" followed by Q&A with Bahia Amawi and Jordana Rubenstein
- Commemoration of the Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria: Film screening of the Documentary "Hatay: 1-11 September 2023"
- Middle East and North Africa Culture Night
- Art as survival and resistance: Guantamo in the Global War on Terror
- Middle East and North Africa Culture Night
- End of the semester potluck
- Forum for peace: Israel and Palestine 3
- Azize Aslan's book launch: "Anticapitalist economy in Rojava"
- Forum for peace: Israel and Palestine
- Film screening of "The Present" followed by Q&A with the director
- Open House
- Lecture: "Arab Istanbulites at the End of the Ottoman Empire.鈥 (Presented by Professor Mostafa Minawi, Cornell University)
- CMENAS Faculty Affiliates Business Meeting
- Meet the American Civic Association (ACA)