Framing the Arab Uprisings: a historical perspective

Fred Halliday Memorial Lecture

Date: Thursday 6 October 2011
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue:  Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Juan Cole
Chair: Professor Kimberly Hutchings
Juan Cole is Richard P Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan and author of the blog Informed Comment.
This lecture is funded by the Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Foundation and is part of The Fred Halliday Distinguished Lecture Series.
 
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This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For any queries email events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6043.
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The London MENA (Middle East & North Africa) Film Festival

Launch - October 2011

Festival - November 2011 

The London MENA Film Festival aims at being the platform for cinematic expression from the MENA region and her UK Diaspora. LMFF will be accessible to everyone. It will be launched on 14th October 2011 with four film screenings and talks with Directors. 

Keep up to date on Facebook (The London MENA Film Festival) or Twitter (#menafilmfest) and via their website www.menafilmfest.com 

For tickets email tickets@menafilmfest.com

The Centre for Academic Shi’a Studies and the London Middle East Institute, School of Oriental and African Studies present:

The Shi’a in the 20^th and 21^st Centuries

A joint CASS/LMEI conference on Shi’I identity in the 20th and 21st Centuries,

analysing the religious and secular divide, as well as the issues concerning Shi’I living in non­Shi’i environments.

9.00am-4.20pm, Saturday 1 October 2011

 

Venue: Al-­Khoei Foundation, Chevening Road, NW6 6TN London UK.

Free Admission.

For further information and registration: info@shiaresearch.com.

SOAS workshop

Centre for Media and Film Studies at SOAS, University of London

Islamist communication strategies and practices in the Middle East

2:00pm-6.00pm, Friday 23th September 2011

 Half-day Workshop

The workshop will explore the communication strategies of a range of Islamist actors in the Middle East, and aims to address the following questions:

how do Islamist groups communicate with their various audiences? What channels do they use?

What is the impact of context and conjuncture on the their respective discourses?

What is the relationship between cultural production and Islamist discourses?

The workshop will provide an opportunity for question-and-answer sessions with the speakers,

a more general discussion on key methodological and empirical issues,

as well as open up the debate on rethinking old paradigms and approaches to understanding the relationship between culture, politics and communication.

Venue: Room 116, Russell Square Campus, SOAS, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H OXG

Tickets: free event

For further information: E: Atef Alshaer aa134@soas.ac.uk, Dina Matar dm27@soas.ac.uk.

 

International Translation Day: Adhaf Soueif in conversation with Amanda Hopkinson

30 Sept 6.30pm – Free Word Centre

On 30 September, English PEN and Free Word will be hosting a celebration of the art of literary translation. The day will culminate with British-Egyptian author Ahdaf Soueif discussing her role as an internationally translated author at the heart of the Arab Spring. 

Can translation change the world?

From novelist to journalist, Ahdaf Soueif is here to discuss shifts in register and in genre, and her particular blend of the personal with the political, fiction and history. Come and see the mirror image reversed to reveal a Middle Eastern reality confront its often pale or distorted western reflection. 

With time for a Q&A session to follow Andaf's Soueif's presentation.

Book tickets for the event here.

International Translation Day: Evening Special with Ahdaf Soueif and Amanda Hopkinson (6.30pm) £10; £5 concessions. Free Word centre, 60 Farringdon Road, London, EC1R 3GA

Call 020 7324 2570 or book online

Podcast - Iran Heritage Foundation: Making Connections

http://vimeo.com/20796188

This 8-mins film showcases some of IHF's programmes on Persian language, including the 2010 Shahnameh exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and IHF's Institutional Partnership Programme, which supports Persian studies teaching and curatorial posts at universities and museums. It also describes IHF's digitisation programmes which include the Golha Digitisation Project and a new programme to catalogue and digitise some of the major works held in the Persian manuscript collection at the British Library.

The Shubbak Festival 4-24th July

Shubbak : A Window on Contemporary Arab Culture

The Mayor of London presents Shubbak, the capital’s first ever celebration of contemporary culture from across the Arab world, showcasing over seventy events in more than 30 venues throughout the city from 4 – 24 July 2011.

Shubbak (Arabic for 'window') offers a wide-ranging programme of visual arts, film, music, theatre, dance, literature, architecture, lectures and discussion.

The festival will feature work by contemporary Arab artists, writers, filmmakers, musicians, choreographers and architects based in London and around the world including Algeria, Bahrain, Canada, Egypt, India, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, USA.

http://www.london.gov.uk/shubbak