Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (April 3, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803649@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 3, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-04-03T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-03T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (April 6, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803635@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 6, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-04-06T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-06T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (April 10, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803650@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 10, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-04-10T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-10T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (April 13, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803636@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 13, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-04-13T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-13T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
EIHS Research Workshop: Hidden Choices and Silent Labor: Making Digital Manuscripts and Archives (April 14, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/106528 106528-21814406@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 14, 2023 10:00am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

RSVP for access to pre-circulated papers (available April 1): https://forms.gle/yuo7BgkukcrQvYta6

This workshop initiates a conversation across geographies and temporalities around the concealed labor of scribes, librarians, bureaucrats, and scholars who make codices and curate archives to think about process and form. To focus on the labor involved in textual creations as we collect, select, copy, and create digital books and archives, we have invited two scholars, Marina Rustow (Princeton University) and Bridget Whearty (Binghamton University), to present their work on the hidden hands and invisible choices that go into the long durée of producing books and archives.
Presenters: 

Marina Rustow is a social historian of the medieval Middle East who works on the Cairo Geniza, a cache of roughly 400,000 folio pages and fragments preserved in an Egyptian synagogue. Her The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cario Synagogue draws on the Princeton Geniza Project to think about the making of archives and codices.

Bridget Whearty specializes in medieval English literature, digitization, and medieval texts. Her Digital Codicology: Medieval Books and Modern Labor highlights the hidden and erased labor behind digitalizing medieval manuscripts to explore modern labor and the long history of book production.

Discussants:

Catherine Brown (Associate Professor, Arts and Ideas in the Humanities, University of Michigan)

Helmut Puff (Elizabeth L. Eisenstein Collegiate Professor of History and Germanic Languages, University of Michigan)

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 23 Mar 2023 11:01:48 -0400 2023-04-14T10:00:00-04:00 2023-04-14T12:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop / Seminar Tisch Hall
CGIS Virtual First Step Sessions (April 17, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/102178 102178-21803651@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 17, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

CGIS offers First Steps sessions virtually (via Zoom) every Monday and Thursday from 4:00pm to 4:30pm during the academic year while classes are in session, with the exception of holidays.

First Step sessions are a great opportunity to learn more about the application process prior to meeting with an advisor. You can learn about all of our programs around the world, scholarships and other financial aid resources, the CGIS application process, and more!

*Attending a First Step session is no longer a required component of the CGIS application process.*

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:02:07 -0500 2023-04-17T16:00:00-04:00 2023-04-17T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Global and Intercultural Study Livestream / Virtual Take the first step towards studying abroad!
Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar. Ethical Cosmology in Islamic Economic Thought (April 24, 2023 2:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107489 107489-21816099@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 24, 2023 2:15pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Based on his two recent books, *Ethical Teachings of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali *and *The Making of Islamic Economic Thought*, in this presentation, Sami Al-Daghistani analyzes the development and conceptual framework of economic thought in the Islamic tradition pertaining to ethical, legal, and philosophical ideas. While initially conceived as a “third-way economic system,” the progenitors of modern Islamic economics have often been structurally and epistemically dependent on key conceptualizations in conventional economics and its worldview. Concomitantly, the pre-modern scholarship nurtured complex attitudes toward economic life associated with the ethical self in that various legal scholars, theologians, and Sufis addressed earning a living and other economic postulates in the context of Sharī‘a law. He argues that classical Muslim scholars maintained a polyvalent understanding of economic thought as a human science based on virtuous traits of character and self-examination, embedded in a particular cosmology of human relationality, metaphysical intelligibility, and economic subjectivity.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 11 Apr 2023 14:36:14 -0400 2023-04-24T14:15:00-04:00 2023-04-24T15:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Workshop / Seminar Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar. Ethical Cosmology in Islamic Economic Thought
International Institute Graduation Ceremony and Reception (April 28, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/104749 104749-21810073@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 28, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: International Institute

Graduation ceremony for undergraduate and graduate students affiliated with: International and Regional Studies, African Studies Center, Center for European Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Center for South Asian Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Global Islamic Studies Center, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies.

2:30 PM: Check-In
3:00 PM: Ceremony
4:00 PM: Reception with light refreshments

To all 2022-2023 MIRS & Center Graduates: Please confirm your attendance and RSVP at https://myumi.ch/n77rk.

For more details, visit https://ii.umich.edu/ii/graduation.
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If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please ii.graduation@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

Cosponsors: Masters in International and Regional Studies, African Studies Center, Center for European Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Center for South Asian Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Global Islamic Studies Center, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies.

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Ceremony / Service Thu, 09 Feb 2023 13:15:31 -0500 2023-04-28T15:00:00-04:00 2023-04-28T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall International Institute Ceremony / Service International Institute Graduation Ceremony and Reception
Star Lore from Babylonia to Brahe (May 12, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107882 107882-21818339@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 12, 2023 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Classical Studies

People have looked up to the night sky at the stars for timekeeping and navigation for thousands of years. Join us for a series of lectures by world-renowned scholars discussing the star lore of ancient and early modern cultures.

Friday, May 12, 2023
9:30 am - Babylonian Astronomy, Chair: Joachim Quack
Presentations by: John Steele (Brown University) and Mathieu Ossendrijver (Freie Universität Berlin
11:30 am - Greek Astronomy, Chair: James Evans
Presentations by: Gonzalo Recio (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Buenos Aires) and Francesca Schironi (University of Michigan)
2:30 pm - Greek Astronomy, Chair: Marina Escolano-Poveda
Presentations by: Alexander Jones (ISAW, New York University) and Stamatina Mastorakou (MPIWG, Berlin)

Saturday, May 13, 2023
10:00 am - Chinese Astronomy, Chair: Gonzalo Recio
Presentation by: Marc Chapuis (Brown University)
10:45 am - Egyptian Astronomy, Chair: John Steele
Presentations by: Joachim Quack (Universität Heidelberg) and Marina Escolano-Poveda (University of Liverpool)
1:45 pm - Islamic Astronomy, Chair: Mathieu Ossendrijver
Presentations by: Sonja Brentjes (MPIWG, Berlin) and Rana Brentjes (MPIWG, Berlin)
3:45 pm - Early Modern Astronomy, Chair: Alexander Jones
Presentations by: James Evans (University of Puget Sound, Tacoma WA) and Christián Carman (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Buenos Aires)

This is a hybrid event, and some presentations will be delivered via Zoom.
Join us on Zoom if you can't attend in person:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/96425915807
Webinar ID: 964 2591 5807
International numbers available: https://umich.zoom.u/u/ad6M4Z75am

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 01 May 2023 15:08:58 -0400 2023-05-12T09:00:00-04:00 2023-05-12T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Classical Studies Lecture / Discussion Star Lore Conference from Babylonia to Brahe
Star Lore from Babylonia to Brahe (May 13, 2023 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/107882 107882-21818340@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, May 13, 2023 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Classical Studies

People have looked up to the night sky at the stars for timekeeping and navigation for thousands of years. Join us for a series of lectures by world-renowned scholars discussing the star lore of ancient and early modern cultures.

Friday, May 12, 2023
9:30 am - Babylonian Astronomy, Chair: Joachim Quack
Presentations by: John Steele (Brown University) and Mathieu Ossendrijver (Freie Universität Berlin
11:30 am - Greek Astronomy, Chair: James Evans
Presentations by: Gonzalo Recio (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Buenos Aires) and Francesca Schironi (University of Michigan)
2:30 pm - Greek Astronomy, Chair: Marina Escolano-Poveda
Presentations by: Alexander Jones (ISAW, New York University) and Stamatina Mastorakou (MPIWG, Berlin)

Saturday, May 13, 2023
10:00 am - Chinese Astronomy, Chair: Gonzalo Recio
Presentation by: Marc Chapuis (Brown University)
10:45 am - Egyptian Astronomy, Chair: John Steele
Presentations by: Joachim Quack (Universität Heidelberg) and Marina Escolano-Poveda (University of Liverpool)
1:45 pm - Islamic Astronomy, Chair: Mathieu Ossendrijver
Presentations by: Sonja Brentjes (MPIWG, Berlin) and Rana Brentjes (MPIWG, Berlin)
3:45 pm - Early Modern Astronomy, Chair: Alexander Jones
Presentations by: James Evans (University of Puget Sound, Tacoma WA) and Christián Carman (Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Buenos Aires)

This is a hybrid event, and some presentations will be delivered via Zoom.
Join us on Zoom if you can't attend in person:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/96425915807
Webinar ID: 964 2591 5807
International numbers available: https://umich.zoom.u/u/ad6M4Z75am

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 01 May 2023 15:08:58 -0400 2023-05-13T10:00:00-04:00 2023-05-13T17:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Classical Studies Lecture / Discussion Star Lore Conference from Babylonia to Brahe
Healthcare workers mental health in disaster settings: lessons from Beirut and Ukraine (May 23, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108029 108029-21818858@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 23, 2023 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: U-M School of Nursing (UMSN) - Office of Global Affairs & WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center

This presentation is the first of 2023 UMSN Coffee and Conversation Series following the UMSN Global Health Summer Institute. Follow the registration link below to see all sessions.

Dr. Maya Bizri is an Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine and a global mental health consultant. She also holds an MPH from Tufts. After starting her clinical career in Beirut in 2019, a time where the country was undergoing political, economic and COVID-19 challenges, and having started the first psycho oncology program mid-pandemic and Beirut blast, her interests shifted to global mental health. More particularly, Dr Bizri is interested in addressing the mental health of healthcare workers in disaster, conflict and low-resource settings. Most recently, she was on a medical mission to Ukraine with MedGlobal to pilot a training in trauma-informed care for healthcare workers. Clinically, Dr Bizri's interests lie in delirium management, psychiatry for the medically ill, psycho-oncology and transplant psychiatry.


Register on Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/2tsv3va9

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 10 May 2023 11:44:37 -0400 2023-05-23T08:00:00-04:00 2023-05-23T09:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location U-M School of Nursing (UMSN) - Office of Global Affairs & WHO/PAHO Collaborating Center Livestream / Virtual Dr. Maya Bizri conversation series flier
Language Fair (August 25, 2023 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/109485 109485-21822077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, August 25, 2023 11:30am
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Are you interested in exploring a language at U-M, but you’re not sure which to choose?

Then we invite you to explore the Language Fair hosted by the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, the Department of Middle East Studies, the Residential College and the Language Resource Center. Talk directly with the language directors of the Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese language programs to learn first hand what opportunities including language resources on campus are available to you.

Talk directly with the language directors of the Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese language programs as well as the representatives from the Language Resource Center and the Residential College Language Programs to learn first hand what opportunities including language resources on campus are available to you.

The Language Fair will held in the LSA Building room from 11:30am - 1:30pm on Friday, August 25 with lots of engaging language activities and games, cultural snacks, swag, and raffles. We hope to see you there! RSVP Recommended for Planning: https://forms.gle/goRzER1oZd9aSbze8

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Other Fri, 25 Aug 2023 16:05:47 -0400 2023-08-25T11:30:00-04:00 2023-08-25T13:30:00-04:00 LSA Building Asian Languages and Cultures Other Poster
The Andalus of the Possible (September 7, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110958 110958-21825916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 7, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

In an interview with the French newspaper Le Monde in 1983, Palestinian poet Mamud Darwish called Palestine “the Andalus of the possible.” Taking inspiration from Darwish’s words, this talk asks: what has the memory of al-Andalus (Muslim Iberia) made possible for Palestinian writers and thinkers? Since the early twentieth century, several prominent Palestinian writers have turned to the memory of al-Andalus to reflect on the political plight of their homeland, to decry occupation and cultural erasure, and to imagine a future for Palestine. Drawing on examples from this long tradition of Palestinian writing about al-Andalus, this talk maps the intersection of two diasporic imaginaries that have crisscrossed the Mediterranean: the Andalusi imaginary and the Palestinian one.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Sep 2023 08:17:21 -0400 2023-09-07T16:00:00-04:00 2023-09-07T18:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Romance Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Andalus Image
CMENAS Fall 2023 Colloquium Series Lecture. Scoring Points: Sports and Politics in Iran (September 11, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110960 110960-21825918@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 11, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

In the face of a worsening economy as well as a range of restrictions and pressures from the Iranian state, Iranian athletes–including many women–have managed significant achievements on the national and world stage. Yet what may otherwise be triumphant moments for the athletes and the nation are marred by Iran’s domestic and international troubles. More often than not, Iranian athletes find themselves increasingly caught between the rock of an authoritarian state and the hard place of diasporic and foreign agendas which compete to use Iranian sports to further their own interests. Drawing from several recent examples to illustrate these dynamics, this talk also considers why frameworks used for making sense of sports, media, and politics elsewhere in the region may not be as fruitful for understanding the case of Iran. In spite of the grim realities facing Iranian athletes, however, Iranian sports remains an important vehicle for individual expression and social change, and the talk includes a discussion of such positive potentials and accomplishments as well.

Niki Akhavan is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Media and Communication Studies at the Catholic University of America. She is the author of *Electronic Iran: The Politics of an Online Evolution *(Rutgers, 2013) and has also published on Iranian narrative and documentary cinema, Iranian sports and media, as well as on state media productions and policies. In addition to her research, Akhavan is an avid translator, most recently of Mohsen Kadivar's *Human rights and reformist Islam *(Edinburgh University Press, 2021).

This event is part of the CMENAS Fall Colloquium 2023: “The MENA world after a MENA World Cup” 555 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor.

Colloquium questions: cmenas@umich.edu

This series is funded in part by the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies (CMENAS) U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center (NRC) grant.

To register, go to https://myumi.ch/8eA8n.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Sep 2023 15:01:51 -0400 2023-09-11T12:00:00-04:00 2023-09-11T14:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Workshop / Seminar Niki Akhavan, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Media and Communication Studies, The Catholic University of America
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (September 13, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827000@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 13, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-09-13T08:00:00-04:00 2023-09-13T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (September 14, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827001@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-09-14T08:00:00-04:00 2023-09-14T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
CSAS Lecture Series | Religious Minorities in Pakistan and Iraq (September 14, 2023 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111842 111842-21827639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 14, 2023 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

For those not in Atlanta, please register to attend this event on Zoom at https://tinyurl.com/BashirTalk.

Salmoon Basir, born in Pakistan, has more than a decade of experience providing leadership in diverse, multicultural, and multi-faith spaces in the US, Pakistan, Iraq, the UK, and the Republic of Georgia. Salmoon was appointed to serve alongside the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Community of St. Anselm at Lambeth Palace in London. His Master of Divinity degree at Emory University brought him to Atlanta. Salmoon worked as the Chief of Staff for the Fearless Dialogues - an organization facilitating hard, heartfelt conversations. He is also a part of various ecumenical and interreligious dialogue committees and events, representing the Episcopal Church nationally and internationally. Salmoon is married to Mari, a graduate of Candler School of Theology working in nonprofit management. He is serving as the Curate for the Ecumenical and Interreligious Relations at the Cathedral of St. Philip Atlanta.

The lecture is made possible with the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant awarded to the University of Michigan Center for South Asian Studies.

Cosponsored by the Middle East Studies Center at Georgia State University, the Atlanta Global Studies Center, and the Asian Studies Center at Georgia State University.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Sep 2023 16:09:50 -0400 2023-09-14T11:30:00-04:00 2023-09-14T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Rev. Salmoon Bashir
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (September 15, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827002@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 15, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-09-15T08:00:00-04:00 2023-09-15T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (September 16, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827003@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 16, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-09-16T08:00:00-04:00 2023-09-16T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (September 17, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827004@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 17, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-09-17T08:00:00-04:00 2023-09-17T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (September 18, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827005@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 18, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-09-18T08:00:00-04:00 2023-09-18T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
CMENAS Fall 2023 Colloquium Series. Football Culture, Politics, and Economics in the Middle East and North Africa (September 18, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111681 111681-21827414@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 18, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

Football has been played in the MENA region since the 19th century and has been successively instrumentalized by colonialists, anti-colonialists, nationalists, internationalists, capitalists, socialists and authoritarians. Because the outside world is unfamiliar with the historical role of football in the region, it comes as a surprise that Qatar might feel competent to host a World Cup, or that Saudi Arabia might harbor the ambition to create a globally competitive national league. In this talk I aim to place these developments in their broader context, and to frame them using two theses. First, football interest is inherently local – stemming from rivalries which can often be traced back more than a century. Second, football economics is inherently global, since playing talent migrates to where it is most highly valued. This framing carries some implications for the future development of football in the MENA region, and the political tensions that this may create.

Stefan Szymanski is an economist who studies sports. He is currently a Professor of Sport Management in the School of Kinesiology, University of Michigan. He has published widely on sports topics in peer-reviewed economics journals and has written a dozen books. The most well-known is *Soccernomics* (co-authored with Simon Kuper), which has been translated into 18 languages, though not Arabic or Hebrew.

This event is part of the CMENAS Fall Colloquium 2023: “The MENA world after a MENA World Cup” 555 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor.

Colloquium questions: cmenas@umich.edu

This series is funded in part by the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies (CMENAS) U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center (NRC) grant.

To register, go to https://myumi.ch/8eA8n.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Sep 2023 15:05:19 -0400 2023-09-18T13:00:00-04:00 2023-09-18T14:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Workshop / Seminar Stefan Szymanski, Stephen J. Galetti Professor of Sport Management, University of Michigan
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (September 19, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827006@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 19, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-09-19T08:00:00-04:00 2023-09-19T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (September 20, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827007@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 20, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-09-20T08:00:00-04:00 2023-09-20T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (September 21, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827008@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 21, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-09-21T08:00:00-04:00 2023-09-21T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (September 22, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827009@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 22, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-09-22T08:00:00-04:00 2023-09-22T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (September 23, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827010@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 23, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-09-23T08:00:00-04:00 2023-09-23T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (September 24, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, September 24, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-09-24T08:00:00-04:00 2023-09-24T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (September 25, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 25, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-09-25T08:00:00-04:00 2023-09-25T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Women and Revolutionary Art in Iran (September 25, 2023 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110462 110462-21824947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 25, 2023 7:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Iranian women have been protagonists in revolutionary movements from the Constitutional Revolution (1905) to the Iranian Revolution (1979), the civil rights movements of 2009 (Green Movement), and more recently the 2022 Woman, Life, and Freedom Movement. They have been fighting for voting rights, gender and ethnic equality, freedom of assembly and of expression as well as the right to a dignified life. Using the media of the arts, the three panelists will discuss the visual and performative language of activism to think about the role of gender and the visual arts in revolutionary Iran.

About the panelists:
Orkideh Torabi was born in Tehran and earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016 and she received her MA and BFA from The University of Art in Tehran. Through her vibrant and intricate paintings, Torabi challenges traditional notions of femininity, power dynamics, and identity. Her unique artistic style blends elements of Persian miniature painting with contemporary imagery, blurring the boundaries between the past and the present.

Nahid Siamdoust is an assistant professor of Middle East Studies at the University of Texas. She is the author of Soundtrack of the Revolution: The Politics of Music in Iran.

Niloofar Sarlati is an assistant professor of Comparative Literature and English Language and Literature at U-M. Her publications include “Suspicious Gifts, Skeptical Words, and Speculative Translations: Colonial and Semicolonial Encounters Between English and Persian” forthcoming in Comparative Literature .

Kathryn Babayan, moderator, is a professor in Middle East Studies and History at U-M. She is the author of The City as Anthology: Visualizing Cultures of Literacy in Early Modern Isfahan.

Orkideh Torabi is the 2023 Jean Yokes Woodhead Visting Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities. This event is part of the LSA's fall 2023 Arts & Resistance theme semester.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Aug 2023 16:10:43 -0400 2023-09-25T19:00:00-04:00 2023-09-25T20:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion “Woman, life, freedom” – bilingual English-Persian billboard display, Piccadilly Circus, London (Image credit: Xanyar)
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (September 26, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827013@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 26, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-09-26T08:00:00-04:00 2023-09-26T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Orkideh Torabi Residency: Welcome Reception (September 26, 2023 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/109918 109918-21823230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 26, 2023 6:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Join us as we welcome artist Orkideh Torabi to campus, immediately following her 5:30pm Special Stamps Lecture at Rackham Amphitheatre.

Orkideh Torabi was born in Tehran and earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016 and she received her MA and BFA from The University of Art in Tehran. Through her vibrant and intricate paintings, Torabi challenges traditional notions of femininity, power dynamics, and identity. Her unique artistic style blends elements of Persian miniature painting with contemporary imagery, blurring the boundaries between the past and the present.

*Orkideh Torabi is the 2023 Jean Yokes Woodhead Visting Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities. This event is part of the LSA's fall 2023 Arts & Resistance theme semester.*

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Reception / Open House Thu, 24 Aug 2023 10:07:55 -0400 2023-09-26T18:30:00-04:00 2023-09-26T20:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Reception / Open House Painting by Orkideh Torabi
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (September 27, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827014@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 27, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-09-27T08:00:00-04:00 2023-09-27T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (September 28, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827015@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-09-28T08:00:00-04:00 2023-09-28T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
"Orkideh's Comical Character Parade" (September 28, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110359 110359-21824817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 28, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

As part of her residency at the Institute for the Humanities, Orkideh Torabi is heading to the U-M Dearborn campus. In this talk, she will delve into the transition of her focus from gender-segregated spaces to the exploration of power dynamics and governance while taking a broader perspective on society. She will focus on two paintings that embody this societal paradox and explore how her art challenges conventional notions of femininity, power, and identity, achieved by blending Persian miniature art with contemporary imagery.

The talk will be followed by a strolling reception and the opportunity to talk to the artist and view her work.

About Orkideh Torabi:
Orkideh Torabi, a native of Tehran, Iran, began her artistic journey in her hometown. She obtained an MFA in graphic design and illustration from the University of Art in Tehran and served as a faculty member there for seven years. Eager to explore new horizons, Torabi made the bold decision to relocate to the United States, driven by her passion to advance her artistic career. She completed her second MFA in 2016 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Presently, Torabi resides and works in Brooklyn, New York, channeling her artistic vision and enriching the cultural landscape of her new home.

Through her vibrant and intricate paintings, Torabi challenges traditional notions of femininity, power dynamics, and identity. Her unique artistic style blends elements of Persian miniature painting with contemporary imagery, blurring the boundaries between the past and the present.

In her artistic practice, she embraces the role of a storyteller, recognizing the integral role that narration plays in her paintings. Within her work, she has crafted a diverse array of whimsical characters, each with their own unique backstory and personality. For her, the canvas becomes a stage, and her paintings take on the essence of a captivating play or theatrical scene, with these characters serving as the ensemble cast, each playing their distinct role.

*Orkideh Torabi is the 2023 Jean Yokes Woodhead Visting Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities. This event is part of the LSA's fall 2023 Arts & Resistance theme semester.*

*Many thanks to the following units at UM- Dearborn for their support of this event: Arabic Studies, Art History, Center for Arab American Studies, Honors Program, the Art Collections and Exhibitions Department/ Stamelos Gallery Center, Middle East Studies, Women and Gender Studies.*

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Sep 2023 09:14:18 -0400 2023-09-28T18:00:00-04:00 2023-09-28T19:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Orkideh Torabi
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (September 29, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827016@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-09-29T08:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Mark Tessler Symposium (September 29, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/110853 110853-21825671@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Join us for a research symposium honoring the career of Mark Tessler

Presentations by:
Michael D. Robbins, Project Director & Co-Principal Investigator, Arab Barometer, Princeton University

Amaney Jamal, Dean, Princeton School for Public and International Affairs, Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University

Diana Greenwald, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, City College of New York

Daniel Corstange, Associate Professor of Political Science and of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

Lindsay Benstead, Associate Professor of Political Science, Director of the Middle East Studies Center, Portland State University

A reception will follow the event at 5 p.m. in the Institute for Social Research atrium

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 25 Sep 2023 16:04:00 -0400 2023-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Conference / Symposium Join us to celebrate the career of Mark Tessler. Friday, September 29, 2023 noon-5 p.m. 1430 ISR-Thompson 426 Thompson St. Ann Arbor, MI.
Museum Studies Program: Museums at Noon (September 29, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112060 112060-21828389@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 29, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Museum Studies Program

Two museum studies students will discuss their international internships:
Alexandra Norwood (Anthropology): The Apes of Uganda: An Exhibit and Outreach Program at the Uganda Museum
Denisa Glacova (Middle East Studies): Is ANU - Museum of the Jewish People Telling the Whole Story?

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Presentation Mon, 18 Sep 2023 11:35:51 -0400 2023-09-29T12:00:00-04:00 2023-09-29T13:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Museum Studies Program Presentation Museums at Noon
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (September 30, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, September 30, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-09-30T08:00:00-04:00 2023-09-30T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (October 1, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 1, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-10-01T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-01T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (October 2, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-10-02T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-02T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
CMENAS Fall 2023 Colloquium Series Lecture: Beyond the World Cup: Indigeneity and Protest in Morocco (October 2, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112455 112455-21828957@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 2, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

Morocco earthquake unveiled aspects of the geographies, the social maps and historical fabric of the High Atlas Mountains. Rushed to the affected area journalists pointed to difficult access, isolation, abode homes, while comments on social media platforms questioned the role of state institutions in the relief efforts. Primarily home to Amazigh speaking Moroccans, the Atlas Mountains have been subject to long held claims about indigeneity as cultural rights, and linguistic and ethnic difference from “Arab”. Yet never the label “Arab world,” as a short cut for speaking about a racially, ethnically and culturally diverse Morocco has been as much disputed as during the world cup. While security services in Qatar were denying Moroccan supporters’ access to the stadium confusing their Amazigh flag with the rainbow (LGBT) flag, Moroccan scholars and Amazigh activists denounced the way Arab media reporters celebrated Morocco’s outstanding performance as representative of “Arab,” therefore effacing the identity of the players, most of whom did not speak Moroccan Darija. I draw on these conversations to illustrate how claims of indigeneity have informed one of the most important movements against resource grabs: The movement on the Road-96, in Imider.

Zakia Salime is a Fulbright scholar and associate professor of women's and gender studies, and sociology at Rutgers University. She was The Presidential Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Women Gender and Sexuality Studies at Yale University (2016-2017) and a visiting professor at the University Paris-8 Vincennes- Saint-Denis (Spring 2016). She is the author of *Between Feminism and Islam: Human Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco* (Minnesota 2011) and co-editor of *Freedom Without Permission: Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions* (Duke 2016). She is currently working on a book manuscript on gender and extractive governance in *Morocco and co-editing Souffles, a Pan-African Journal and Platform*.

This event is part of the CMENAS Fall Colloquium 2023: “The MENA world after a MENA World Cup” 555 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor.

Colloquium questions: cmenas@umich.edu

This series is funded in part by the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies (CMENAS) U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center (NRC) grant.

To register, go to https://myumi.ch/8eA8n.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 15 Sep 2023 11:11:35 -0400 2023-10-02T12:00:00-04:00 2023-10-02T14:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Workshop / Seminar Zakia Salime, Rutgers University
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (October 3, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-10-03T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-03T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
CGIS Study Abroad Fair (October 3, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/107937 107937-21819158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 3, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Curious about studying abroad as an undergraduate at U-M?
Come explore everything the Center for Global and Intercultural Study has to offer and find the best program for you!

*CGIS is part of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA), but all U-M undergraduates are welcome to apply to our programs.*

No matter who you are, where you come from, or what you’re studying, a study abroad experience is available to you during your time at Michigan.

Get your questions answered! Come chat with:
- CGIS Program Advisors
- Recent U-M study abroad students
- Financial Aid and the LSA Scholarships Office
- Newnan Academic Advisors
- Other on-campus offices
*Several study abroad offices from around campus will also be present.*

With over 120 CGIS programs in 40+ countries ranging from a few weeks to an academic year, there are many options to choose from.

If you want to learn more about how to satisfy your major/minor requirements abroad, how to afford study abroad, how to travel with other U-M students on a faculty-led trip, or want to know what to expect, be sure to add this event to your calendar and drop by!

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Fair / Festival Wed, 20 Sep 2023 09:34:42 -0400 2023-10-03T12:00:00-04:00 2023-10-03T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Center for Global and Intercultural Study Fair / Festival CGIS Study Abroad Fair - Come find the program for you!
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (October 4, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 4, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-10-04T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-04T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Horror Films Across Boundaries: American, Israeli, Jewish, and Muslim Perspectives (October 4, 2023 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113131 113131-21830128@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 4, 2023 4:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This roundtable brings together scholars of the horror film working in the contexts of Jewish, Muslim, American and Israeli cinemas. They will discuss these questions and issues: How do we take stock of concurrent developments in Jewish, Muslim, American and Israeli horror films? What are the points of convergence and divergence among them? What does horror add to our understanding of Muslim and Jewish cultures? Alternatively, how do Jewish and Muslim interventions contribute to the horror genre?

Attend in-person, or online at https://myumi.ch/gRAV2

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Film Screening Tue, 26 Sep 2023 15:11:32 -0400 2023-10-04T16:30:00-04:00 2023-10-04T18:30:00-04:00 North Quad Judaic Studies Film Screening Horror Films Across Boundaries: American, Israeli, Jewish, and Muslim Perspectives
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (October 5, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 5, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-10-05T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-05T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (October 6, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-10-06T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-06T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
2023 Charles F. Fraker Graduate Conference (October 6, 2023 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108241 108241-21819161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 6, 2023 11:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

The biannual Charles F. Fraker Conference is organized by doctoral students in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor in honor of Professor Emeritus of Spanish Charles F. Fraker. Originally a venue for graduate students of Hispanic Studies to meet and discuss the subjects of their research, the conference has grown to include the work of students of many other fields and disciplines. In previous years, the Charles F. Fraker Conference has featured as its keynote speakers intellectuals such as Jacques Lezra, Alberto Moreiras, Jacques Rancière, Bill Brown, Michael Taussig, WJT Mitchell, and Robert T. Tally Jr. This year, we are excited to welcome Professor Eduardo Cadava who will deliver the keynote lecture and workshop. We will also enjoy panels with presentations from graduate students in our own department/university and from other institutions across the country and beyond, including UC Berkeley, Binghamton University, Boston University, University of Chile, University of Florida, Fort Hays State University, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Houston, University of Illinois Chicago, John Hopkins University, Michigan State University, Northwestern University, University of Notre Dame, The Ohio State University, Princeton University, UC Riverside, and University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The conference will take place on the 6-7th October 2023 at the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor and features Dr. Eduardo Cadava, Philip Mayhew Professor of English
Workshop "Paper Graveyards": Friday, October 6, 2023 11 am - 12:30 pm, Rackham, West Conference Room
Lecture "Walter Benjamin's Mesoamerican Dreams": Saturday, October 7, 2023 11:30 - 1 pm, Michigan League Vandenberg

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 28 Sep 2023 07:43:40 -0400 2023-10-06T11:00:00-04:00 2023-10-06T12:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Romance Languages & Literatures Conference / Symposium Keynote Poster
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (October 7, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 7, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-10-07T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-07T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
2023 Charles F. Fraker Graduate Conference (October 7, 2023 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/108241 108241-21819162@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 7, 2023 11:30am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Romance Languages & Literatures

The biannual Charles F. Fraker Conference is organized by doctoral students in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor in honor of Professor Emeritus of Spanish Charles F. Fraker. Originally a venue for graduate students of Hispanic Studies to meet and discuss the subjects of their research, the conference has grown to include the work of students of many other fields and disciplines. In previous years, the Charles F. Fraker Conference has featured as its keynote speakers intellectuals such as Jacques Lezra, Alberto Moreiras, Jacques Rancière, Bill Brown, Michael Taussig, WJT Mitchell, and Robert T. Tally Jr. This year, we are excited to welcome Professor Eduardo Cadava who will deliver the keynote lecture and workshop. We will also enjoy panels with presentations from graduate students in our own department/university and from other institutions across the country and beyond, including UC Berkeley, Binghamton University, Boston University, University of Chile, University of Florida, Fort Hays State University, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Houston, University of Illinois Chicago, John Hopkins University, Michigan State University, Northwestern University, University of Notre Dame, The Ohio State University, Princeton University, UC Riverside, and University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The conference will take place on the 6-7th October 2023 at the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor and features Dr. Eduardo Cadava, Philip Mayhew Professor of English
Workshop "Paper Graveyards": Friday, October 6, 2023 11 am - 12:30 pm, Rackham, West Conference Room
Lecture "Walter Benjamin's Mesoamerican Dreams": Saturday, October 7, 2023 11:30 - 1 pm, Michigan League Vandenberg

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 28 Sep 2023 07:43:40 -0400 2023-10-07T11:30:00-04:00 2023-10-07T13:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Romance Languages & Literatures Conference / Symposium Keynote Poster
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (October 8, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 8, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-10-08T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-08T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (October 9, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 9, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-10-09T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-09T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
CMENAS Fall 2023 Colloquium Series Lecture. Kicking Goals and Reshaping Realities: Sport and Politics in the Arab Gulf States (October 9, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111687 111687-21827419@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 9, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

The intersection of sports and politics is an age-old phenomenon, and it continues to be a prominent theme in contemporary society. This phenomenon is particularly pronounced in the continually evolving context of the Arab Gulf States. The nexus between sport and politics has proven to be a dynamic force capable of generating significant political, sociological, and economic outcomes. The hosting of the 'successful' Qatar World Cup 2022 stands as a prime example of how a sporting event can transcend the boundaries of the pitch and reshape the realities of a region. This talk delves into the intricate relationship between sport and politics in the Arab Gulf States, analyzing the multifaceted consequences of the Qatar World Cup on political dynamics, sociocultural norms, and economic landscapes.

Salma Thani, a Visiting Assistant Professor at the American University of Sharjah, is a Gulf Studies specialist. Her interdisciplinary approach covers a wide spectrum of research interests, including the history and contemporary socio-political dynamics of the Gulf States. Dr. Thani's work delves into the region's evolving global roles in politics and diplomacy. Her research extends to exploring how culture, history, politics, and foreign influences have shaped its socio-economic development, with a specific focus on the UAE. She has published widely in the fields of soft power, national identity, national branding, development, sport, tourism, and aviation in the United Arab Emirates.

This event is part of the CMENAS Fall Colloquium 2023: “The MENA world after a MENA World Cup” 555 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor.

Colloquium questions: cmenas@umich.edu

This series is funded in part by the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies (CMENAS) U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center (NRC) grant.

To register, go to https://myumi.ch/8eA8n.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Oct 2023 10:52:06 -0400 2023-10-09T12:00:00-04:00 2023-10-09T14:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Workshop / Seminar Salma Thani
Capitalizing Edirne (October 9, 2023 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/112770 112770-21829531@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 9, 2023 2:30pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

How does a city become a capital? Why one particular city, in a certain period, and at a specific pace? Specifically: How did the Ottoman city of Edirne (Byzantine Adrianople) become the capital of the Ottoman enterprise during the first half of the fifteenth century? What was an Ottoman capital in this era? This lecture explores the process that made Edirne into an Ottoman capital, comparing that process to the earlier development of Bursa as the Ottoman capital. The combined experiences of these two cities in the first 150 years of Ottoman history laid the groundwork for the reconfiguring of Byzantine Constantinople into Ottoman Konstantiniyye (Istanbul) after its conquest in 1453. Although many and varied sources documented what transpired in Istanbul, we trace Edirne’s development through a much slimmer agglomeration of evidence. The physical evidence of an Ottoman presence, together with occasional references in Ottoman chronicles and documents, and foreign accounts, reveal how Sultans Mehmed I (1413-21) and Murad II (1421-51) took deliberate steps to consolidate Edirne’s shifting status. The same evidence points to the evolving self-perception of the Ottomans in their world. With this framework in place, however, the greater challenge remaining in this study is to discover the human activities that animated these processes.

Dr. Amy Singer is Hassenfeld Chair in Islamic Studies and Professor in the Department of History at Brandeis University. Professor emerita in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University.

This event is made possible by the Hajja Razia Sharif Sheikh endowment in Islamic Studies

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Sep 2023 08:47:34 -0400 2023-10-09T14:30:00-04:00 2023-10-09T16:30:00-04:00 Michigan Union Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (October 10, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-10-10T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-10T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
The Impact of AI on the Lives and Rights of Women in the US and the Middle East (October 10, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113519 113519-21831110@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Overview: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming every aspect of our society and our lives. However, just like any emerging technology, AI’s impact varies greatly for different demographic groups, in different geographic regions, and is shaped by social conventions, culture, religion, economic realities, among many other factors. We invite everyone who is interested in understanding the impact of AI to join Marina Alsahawneh and Merve Hickok for a discussion of the impact of AI on women in the US and the Middle East. They will discuss gender biases in AI algorithms, opportunities and gender inequity in the AI-enabled workforce, and cyber-based violence against women. They will discuss how these intersect with the political, social, cultural, economic and religious features of different geographic regions.

Speakers:
Marina Alsahawneh, Gender and Inclusion Officer at Jordan Open Source Association

Merve Hickok, Responsible Data & AI Advisor, Michigan Institute for Data Science

Moderator:
Jing Liu, Executive Director, Michigan Institute for Data Science

More information and registration here: https://midas.umich.edu/ai-womens-rights/

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Oct 2023 15:36:50 -0400 2023-10-10T12:00:00-04:00 2023-10-10T13:30:00-04:00 Lane Hall Michigan Institute for Data Science Lecture / Discussion AI-generated image of a woman in profile with abstract geometric designs
Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022) (October 10, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113162 113162-21830190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 10, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival 2023!

What is Halaloween? Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by, for, or about Muslims, to understand: “What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?”

This year’s 2023 film festival will be in-person and online, screening one film a week for the first half of the month of October, and culminating in two in-person screenings at the State Theatre, on Tuesday October 24th and 31st at 7:30 PM.

The festival is free in person and online–but make sure to reserve tickets! Some films may not be available in certain countries. Films will be unlocked online each week of October, and viewers will have the week to watch each film.

We are inclusive of everyone's film needs: from new horror fans who close their eyes through most scary movies, to those who love the gore–we've got films for everyone! Check the Halaloween Horror Rating in the description of each film for its scariness rating.

The 2023 Halaloween Lineup:

October 10:* Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *| 2022 | Indonesia
October 17: *Siccîn 3: Love *| 2016 | Turkey
October 24: *Cairo Conspiracy *| 2022 | Egypt***
October 31: *Tiger Stripes* | 2023 | Malaysia***
*** These screenings will be free and in person at the State Theatre

Reserve your tickets/seats: http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween
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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE: *SATAN’S SLAVES 2: COMMUNION *(2022)

From Oct 10th to the 17th, stream the Indonesian horror film *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022) on demand at http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween. Pre-order the film anytime, and check out the rest of the month’s Halaloween Horror selection!

2022 | 119 minutes | Indonesian | Indonesia
Directed by: Joko Anwar

Halaloween Horror Rating 4/5 | Rating explanation: Gothic and folk horror film directed by Indonesian master of horror Joko Anwar. Contains jump scares, creepy kids, dead body horror, blood and gore, corpses, hauntings, illness, death, and cults.

Religious content: Most characters are Muslim Indonesians, and the film includes prayer and religious leaders.

*Satan's Slaves 2* (Indonesian: Pengabdi Setan) is a 2022 Indonesian gothic horror film written and directed by Joko Anwar. The film, a sequel to *Satan’s Slaves 1*, follows a poor family who continues to be haunted, no matter where they move. Several years after a terrible incident cost the family their mother and youngest sibling, Rini and her siblings Toni and Bondi live with their father in an apartment. They believe living in an apartment with many people is the best way to stay safe, but soon realize there is danger in not knowing your neighbors. On a night full of terror, Rini and her family must save themselves.
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Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival, is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the Middle Eastern Studies Department, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, and Shudder. This event is free and open to all. To watch the remaining Halaloween films, visit: watch.eventive.org/halaloween.

For more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan, please visit ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies.

Join our Email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83
Islamic Studies Minor: https://myumi.ch/R5YnQ
Email islamicstudies@umich.edu
Masters Program: https://myumi.ch/v2gVP
Email MIRS-info@umich.edu

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:

Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:42:02 -0400 2023-10-10T15:00:00-04:00 2023-10-10T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022)
Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022) (October 11, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113162 113162-21830191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 11, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival 2023!

What is Halaloween? Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by, for, or about Muslims, to understand: “What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?”

This year’s 2023 film festival will be in-person and online, screening one film a week for the first half of the month of October, and culminating in two in-person screenings at the State Theatre, on Tuesday October 24th and 31st at 7:30 PM.

The festival is free in person and online–but make sure to reserve tickets! Some films may not be available in certain countries. Films will be unlocked online each week of October, and viewers will have the week to watch each film.

We are inclusive of everyone's film needs: from new horror fans who close their eyes through most scary movies, to those who love the gore–we've got films for everyone! Check the Halaloween Horror Rating in the description of each film for its scariness rating.

The 2023 Halaloween Lineup:

October 10:* Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *| 2022 | Indonesia
October 17: *Siccîn 3: Love *| 2016 | Turkey
October 24: *Cairo Conspiracy *| 2022 | Egypt***
October 31: *Tiger Stripes* | 2023 | Malaysia***
*** These screenings will be free and in person at the State Theatre

Reserve your tickets/seats: http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween
__________________

THIS WEEK’S FEATURE: *SATAN’S SLAVES 2: COMMUNION *(2022)

From Oct 10th to the 17th, stream the Indonesian horror film *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022) on demand at http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween. Pre-order the film anytime, and check out the rest of the month’s Halaloween Horror selection!

2022 | 119 minutes | Indonesian | Indonesia
Directed by: Joko Anwar

Halaloween Horror Rating 4/5 | Rating explanation: Gothic and folk horror film directed by Indonesian master of horror Joko Anwar. Contains jump scares, creepy kids, dead body horror, blood and gore, corpses, hauntings, illness, death, and cults.

Religious content: Most characters are Muslim Indonesians, and the film includes prayer and religious leaders.

*Satan's Slaves 2* (Indonesian: Pengabdi Setan) is a 2022 Indonesian gothic horror film written and directed by Joko Anwar. The film, a sequel to *Satan’s Slaves 1*, follows a poor family who continues to be haunted, no matter where they move. Several years after a terrible incident cost the family their mother and youngest sibling, Rini and her siblings Toni and Bondi live with their father in an apartment. They believe living in an apartment with many people is the best way to stay safe, but soon realize there is danger in not knowing your neighbors. On a night full of terror, Rini and her family must save themselves.
__________________

Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival, is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the Middle Eastern Studies Department, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, and Shudder. This event is free and open to all. To watch the remaining Halaloween films, visit: watch.eventive.org/halaloween.

For more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan, please visit ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies.

Join our Email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83
Islamic Studies Minor: https://myumi.ch/R5YnQ
Email islamicstudies@umich.edu
Masters Program: https://myumi.ch/v2gVP
Email MIRS-info@umich.edu

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:

Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:42:02 -0400 2023-10-11T00:00:00-04:00 2023-10-11T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022)
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (October 11, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 11, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-10-11T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-11T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022) (October 12, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113162 113162-21830192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival 2023!

What is Halaloween? Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by, for, or about Muslims, to understand: “What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?”

This year’s 2023 film festival will be in-person and online, screening one film a week for the first half of the month of October, and culminating in two in-person screenings at the State Theatre, on Tuesday October 24th and 31st at 7:30 PM.

The festival is free in person and online–but make sure to reserve tickets! Some films may not be available in certain countries. Films will be unlocked online each week of October, and viewers will have the week to watch each film.

We are inclusive of everyone's film needs: from new horror fans who close their eyes through most scary movies, to those who love the gore–we've got films for everyone! Check the Halaloween Horror Rating in the description of each film for its scariness rating.

The 2023 Halaloween Lineup:

October 10:* Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *| 2022 | Indonesia
October 17: *Siccîn 3: Love *| 2016 | Turkey
October 24: *Cairo Conspiracy *| 2022 | Egypt***
October 31: *Tiger Stripes* | 2023 | Malaysia***
*** These screenings will be free and in person at the State Theatre

Reserve your tickets/seats: http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween
__________________

THIS WEEK’S FEATURE: *SATAN’S SLAVES 2: COMMUNION *(2022)

From Oct 10th to the 17th, stream the Indonesian horror film *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022) on demand at http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween. Pre-order the film anytime, and check out the rest of the month’s Halaloween Horror selection!

2022 | 119 minutes | Indonesian | Indonesia
Directed by: Joko Anwar

Halaloween Horror Rating 4/5 | Rating explanation: Gothic and folk horror film directed by Indonesian master of horror Joko Anwar. Contains jump scares, creepy kids, dead body horror, blood and gore, corpses, hauntings, illness, death, and cults.

Religious content: Most characters are Muslim Indonesians, and the film includes prayer and religious leaders.

*Satan's Slaves 2* (Indonesian: Pengabdi Setan) is a 2022 Indonesian gothic horror film written and directed by Joko Anwar. The film, a sequel to *Satan’s Slaves 1*, follows a poor family who continues to be haunted, no matter where they move. Several years after a terrible incident cost the family their mother and youngest sibling, Rini and her siblings Toni and Bondi live with their father in an apartment. They believe living in an apartment with many people is the best way to stay safe, but soon realize there is danger in not knowing your neighbors. On a night full of terror, Rini and her family must save themselves.
__________________

Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival, is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the Middle Eastern Studies Department, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, and Shudder. This event is free and open to all. To watch the remaining Halaloween films, visit: watch.eventive.org/halaloween.

For more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan, please visit ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies.

Join our Email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83
Islamic Studies Minor: https://myumi.ch/R5YnQ
Email islamicstudies@umich.edu
Masters Program: https://myumi.ch/v2gVP
Email MIRS-info@umich.edu

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:

Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:42:02 -0400 2023-10-12T00:00:00-04:00 2023-10-12T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022)
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (October 12, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827029@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 12, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-10-12T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-12T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022) (October 13, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113162 113162-21830193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival 2023!

What is Halaloween? Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by, for, or about Muslims, to understand: “What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?”

This year’s 2023 film festival will be in-person and online, screening one film a week for the first half of the month of October, and culminating in two in-person screenings at the State Theatre, on Tuesday October 24th and 31st at 7:30 PM.

The festival is free in person and online–but make sure to reserve tickets! Some films may not be available in certain countries. Films will be unlocked online each week of October, and viewers will have the week to watch each film.

We are inclusive of everyone's film needs: from new horror fans who close their eyes through most scary movies, to those who love the gore–we've got films for everyone! Check the Halaloween Horror Rating in the description of each film for its scariness rating.

The 2023 Halaloween Lineup:

October 10:* Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *| 2022 | Indonesia
October 17: *Siccîn 3: Love *| 2016 | Turkey
October 24: *Cairo Conspiracy *| 2022 | Egypt***
October 31: *Tiger Stripes* | 2023 | Malaysia***
*** These screenings will be free and in person at the State Theatre

Reserve your tickets/seats: http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween
__________________

THIS WEEK’S FEATURE: *SATAN’S SLAVES 2: COMMUNION *(2022)

From Oct 10th to the 17th, stream the Indonesian horror film *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022) on demand at http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween. Pre-order the film anytime, and check out the rest of the month’s Halaloween Horror selection!

2022 | 119 minutes | Indonesian | Indonesia
Directed by: Joko Anwar

Halaloween Horror Rating 4/5 | Rating explanation: Gothic and folk horror film directed by Indonesian master of horror Joko Anwar. Contains jump scares, creepy kids, dead body horror, blood and gore, corpses, hauntings, illness, death, and cults.

Religious content: Most characters are Muslim Indonesians, and the film includes prayer and religious leaders.

*Satan's Slaves 2* (Indonesian: Pengabdi Setan) is a 2022 Indonesian gothic horror film written and directed by Joko Anwar. The film, a sequel to *Satan’s Slaves 1*, follows a poor family who continues to be haunted, no matter where they move. Several years after a terrible incident cost the family their mother and youngest sibling, Rini and her siblings Toni and Bondi live with their father in an apartment. They believe living in an apartment with many people is the best way to stay safe, but soon realize there is danger in not knowing your neighbors. On a night full of terror, Rini and her family must save themselves.
__________________

Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival, is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the Middle Eastern Studies Department, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, and Shudder. This event is free and open to all. To watch the remaining Halaloween films, visit: watch.eventive.org/halaloween.

For more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan, please visit ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies.

Join our Email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83
Islamic Studies Minor: https://myumi.ch/R5YnQ
Email islamicstudies@umich.edu
Masters Program: https://myumi.ch/v2gVP
Email MIRS-info@umich.edu

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:

Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:42:02 -0400 2023-10-13T00:00:00-04:00 2023-10-13T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022)
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (October 13, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 13, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-10-13T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-13T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022) (October 14, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113162 113162-21830194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 14, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival 2023!

What is Halaloween? Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by, for, or about Muslims, to understand: “What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?”

This year’s 2023 film festival will be in-person and online, screening one film a week for the first half of the month of October, and culminating in two in-person screenings at the State Theatre, on Tuesday October 24th and 31st at 7:30 PM.

The festival is free in person and online–but make sure to reserve tickets! Some films may not be available in certain countries. Films will be unlocked online each week of October, and viewers will have the week to watch each film.

We are inclusive of everyone's film needs: from new horror fans who close their eyes through most scary movies, to those who love the gore–we've got films for everyone! Check the Halaloween Horror Rating in the description of each film for its scariness rating.

The 2023 Halaloween Lineup:

October 10:* Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *| 2022 | Indonesia
October 17: *Siccîn 3: Love *| 2016 | Turkey
October 24: *Cairo Conspiracy *| 2022 | Egypt***
October 31: *Tiger Stripes* | 2023 | Malaysia***
*** These screenings will be free and in person at the State Theatre

Reserve your tickets/seats: http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween
__________________

THIS WEEK’S FEATURE: *SATAN’S SLAVES 2: COMMUNION *(2022)

From Oct 10th to the 17th, stream the Indonesian horror film *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022) on demand at http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween. Pre-order the film anytime, and check out the rest of the month’s Halaloween Horror selection!

2022 | 119 minutes | Indonesian | Indonesia
Directed by: Joko Anwar

Halaloween Horror Rating 4/5 | Rating explanation: Gothic and folk horror film directed by Indonesian master of horror Joko Anwar. Contains jump scares, creepy kids, dead body horror, blood and gore, corpses, hauntings, illness, death, and cults.

Religious content: Most characters are Muslim Indonesians, and the film includes prayer and religious leaders.

*Satan's Slaves 2* (Indonesian: Pengabdi Setan) is a 2022 Indonesian gothic horror film written and directed by Joko Anwar. The film, a sequel to *Satan’s Slaves 1*, follows a poor family who continues to be haunted, no matter where they move. Several years after a terrible incident cost the family their mother and youngest sibling, Rini and her siblings Toni and Bondi live with their father in an apartment. They believe living in an apartment with many people is the best way to stay safe, but soon realize there is danger in not knowing your neighbors. On a night full of terror, Rini and her family must save themselves.
__________________

Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival, is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the Middle Eastern Studies Department, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, and Shudder. This event is free and open to all. To watch the remaining Halaloween films, visit: watch.eventive.org/halaloween.

For more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan, please visit ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies.

Join our Email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83
Islamic Studies Minor: https://myumi.ch/R5YnQ
Email islamicstudies@umich.edu
Masters Program: https://myumi.ch/v2gVP
Email MIRS-info@umich.edu

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:

Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:42:02 -0400 2023-10-14T00:00:00-04:00 2023-10-14T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022)
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (October 14, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 14, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-10-14T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-14T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022) (October 15, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113162 113162-21830195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 15, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival 2023!

What is Halaloween? Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by, for, or about Muslims, to understand: “What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?”

This year’s 2023 film festival will be in-person and online, screening one film a week for the first half of the month of October, and culminating in two in-person screenings at the State Theatre, on Tuesday October 24th and 31st at 7:30 PM.

The festival is free in person and online–but make sure to reserve tickets! Some films may not be available in certain countries. Films will be unlocked online each week of October, and viewers will have the week to watch each film.

We are inclusive of everyone's film needs: from new horror fans who close their eyes through most scary movies, to those who love the gore–we've got films for everyone! Check the Halaloween Horror Rating in the description of each film for its scariness rating.

The 2023 Halaloween Lineup:

October 10:* Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *| 2022 | Indonesia
October 17: *Siccîn 3: Love *| 2016 | Turkey
October 24: *Cairo Conspiracy *| 2022 | Egypt***
October 31: *Tiger Stripes* | 2023 | Malaysia***
*** These screenings will be free and in person at the State Theatre

Reserve your tickets/seats: http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween
__________________

THIS WEEK’S FEATURE: *SATAN’S SLAVES 2: COMMUNION *(2022)

From Oct 10th to the 17th, stream the Indonesian horror film *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022) on demand at http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween. Pre-order the film anytime, and check out the rest of the month’s Halaloween Horror selection!

2022 | 119 minutes | Indonesian | Indonesia
Directed by: Joko Anwar

Halaloween Horror Rating 4/5 | Rating explanation: Gothic and folk horror film directed by Indonesian master of horror Joko Anwar. Contains jump scares, creepy kids, dead body horror, blood and gore, corpses, hauntings, illness, death, and cults.

Religious content: Most characters are Muslim Indonesians, and the film includes prayer and religious leaders.

*Satan's Slaves 2* (Indonesian: Pengabdi Setan) is a 2022 Indonesian gothic horror film written and directed by Joko Anwar. The film, a sequel to *Satan’s Slaves 1*, follows a poor family who continues to be haunted, no matter where they move. Several years after a terrible incident cost the family their mother and youngest sibling, Rini and her siblings Toni and Bondi live with their father in an apartment. They believe living in an apartment with many people is the best way to stay safe, but soon realize there is danger in not knowing your neighbors. On a night full of terror, Rini and her family must save themselves.
__________________

Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival, is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the Middle Eastern Studies Department, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, and Shudder. This event is free and open to all. To watch the remaining Halaloween films, visit: watch.eventive.org/halaloween.

For more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan, please visit ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies.

Join our Email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83
Islamic Studies Minor: https://myumi.ch/R5YnQ
Email islamicstudies@umich.edu
Masters Program: https://myumi.ch/v2gVP
Email MIRS-info@umich.edu

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:

Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:42:02 -0400 2023-10-15T00:00:00-04:00 2023-10-15T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022)
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (October 15, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 15, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-10-15T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-15T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022) (October 16, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113162 113162-21830196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 16, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival 2023!

What is Halaloween? Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by, for, or about Muslims, to understand: “What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?”

This year’s 2023 film festival will be in-person and online, screening one film a week for the first half of the month of October, and culminating in two in-person screenings at the State Theatre, on Tuesday October 24th and 31st at 7:30 PM.

The festival is free in person and online–but make sure to reserve tickets! Some films may not be available in certain countries. Films will be unlocked online each week of October, and viewers will have the week to watch each film.

We are inclusive of everyone's film needs: from new horror fans who close their eyes through most scary movies, to those who love the gore–we've got films for everyone! Check the Halaloween Horror Rating in the description of each film for its scariness rating.

The 2023 Halaloween Lineup:

October 10:* Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *| 2022 | Indonesia
October 17: *Siccîn 3: Love *| 2016 | Turkey
October 24: *Cairo Conspiracy *| 2022 | Egypt***
October 31: *Tiger Stripes* | 2023 | Malaysia***
*** These screenings will be free and in person at the State Theatre

Reserve your tickets/seats: http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween
__________________

THIS WEEK’S FEATURE: *SATAN’S SLAVES 2: COMMUNION *(2022)

From Oct 10th to the 17th, stream the Indonesian horror film *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022) on demand at http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween. Pre-order the film anytime, and check out the rest of the month’s Halaloween Horror selection!

2022 | 119 minutes | Indonesian | Indonesia
Directed by: Joko Anwar

Halaloween Horror Rating 4/5 | Rating explanation: Gothic and folk horror film directed by Indonesian master of horror Joko Anwar. Contains jump scares, creepy kids, dead body horror, blood and gore, corpses, hauntings, illness, death, and cults.

Religious content: Most characters are Muslim Indonesians, and the film includes prayer and religious leaders.

*Satan's Slaves 2* (Indonesian: Pengabdi Setan) is a 2022 Indonesian gothic horror film written and directed by Joko Anwar. The film, a sequel to *Satan’s Slaves 1*, follows a poor family who continues to be haunted, no matter where they move. Several years after a terrible incident cost the family their mother and youngest sibling, Rini and her siblings Toni and Bondi live with their father in an apartment. They believe living in an apartment with many people is the best way to stay safe, but soon realize there is danger in not knowing your neighbors. On a night full of terror, Rini and her family must save themselves.
__________________

Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival, is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the Middle Eastern Studies Department, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, and Shudder. This event is free and open to all. To watch the remaining Halaloween films, visit: watch.eventive.org/halaloween.

For more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan, please visit ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies.

Join our Email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83
Islamic Studies Minor: https://myumi.ch/R5YnQ
Email islamicstudies@umich.edu
Masters Program: https://myumi.ch/v2gVP
Email MIRS-info@umich.edu

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:

Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:42:02 -0400 2023-10-16T00:00:00-04:00 2023-10-16T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022)
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (October 16, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827033@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 16, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-10-16T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-16T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (October 16, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832141@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 16, 2023 9:00am
Location:
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-10-16T09:00:00-04:00 2023-10-16T10:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022) (October 17, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113162 113162-21830197@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 17, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival 2023!

What is Halaloween? Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by, for, or about Muslims, to understand: “What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?”

This year’s 2023 film festival will be in-person and online, screening one film a week for the first half of the month of October, and culminating in two in-person screenings at the State Theatre, on Tuesday October 24th and 31st at 7:30 PM.

The festival is free in person and online–but make sure to reserve tickets! Some films may not be available in certain countries. Films will be unlocked online each week of October, and viewers will have the week to watch each film.

We are inclusive of everyone's film needs: from new horror fans who close their eyes through most scary movies, to those who love the gore–we've got films for everyone! Check the Halaloween Horror Rating in the description of each film for its scariness rating.

The 2023 Halaloween Lineup:

October 10:* Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *| 2022 | Indonesia
October 17: *Siccîn 3: Love *| 2016 | Turkey
October 24: *Cairo Conspiracy *| 2022 | Egypt***
October 31: *Tiger Stripes* | 2023 | Malaysia***
*** These screenings will be free and in person at the State Theatre

Reserve your tickets/seats: http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween
__________________

THIS WEEK’S FEATURE: *SATAN’S SLAVES 2: COMMUNION *(2022)

From Oct 10th to the 17th, stream the Indonesian horror film *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022) on demand at http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween. Pre-order the film anytime, and check out the rest of the month’s Halaloween Horror selection!

2022 | 119 minutes | Indonesian | Indonesia
Directed by: Joko Anwar

Halaloween Horror Rating 4/5 | Rating explanation: Gothic and folk horror film directed by Indonesian master of horror Joko Anwar. Contains jump scares, creepy kids, dead body horror, blood and gore, corpses, hauntings, illness, death, and cults.

Religious content: Most characters are Muslim Indonesians, and the film includes prayer and religious leaders.

*Satan's Slaves 2* (Indonesian: Pengabdi Setan) is a 2022 Indonesian gothic horror film written and directed by Joko Anwar. The film, a sequel to *Satan’s Slaves 1*, follows a poor family who continues to be haunted, no matter where they move. Several years after a terrible incident cost the family their mother and youngest sibling, Rini and her siblings Toni and Bondi live with their father in an apartment. They believe living in an apartment with many people is the best way to stay safe, but soon realize there is danger in not knowing your neighbors. On a night full of terror, Rini and her family must save themselves.
__________________

Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival, is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the Middle Eastern Studies Department, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, and Shudder. This event is free and open to all. To watch the remaining Halaloween films, visit: watch.eventive.org/halaloween.

For more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan, please visit ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies.

Join our Email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83
Islamic Studies Minor: https://myumi.ch/R5YnQ
Email islamicstudies@umich.edu
Masters Program: https://myumi.ch/v2gVP
Email MIRS-info@umich.edu

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:

Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:42:02 -0400 2023-10-17T00:00:00-04:00 2023-10-17T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *(2022)
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (October 17, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827034@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 17, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-10-17T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-17T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Siccîn 3: Love* (2016) (October 17, 2023 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113166 113166-21830198@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 17, 2023 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival 2023!

What is Halaloween? Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by, for, or about Muslims, to understand: “What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?”

This year’s 2023 film festival will be in-person and online, screening one film a week for the first half of the month of October, and culminating in two in-person screenings at the State Theatre, on Tuesday October 24th and 31st at 7:30 PM.

The festival is free in person and online–but make sure to reserve tickets! Some films may not be available in certain countries. Films will be unlocked online each week of October, and viewers will have the week to watch each film.

We are inclusive of everyone's film needs: from new horror fans who close their eyes through most scary movies, to those who love the gore–we've got films for everyone! Check the Halaloween Horror Rating in the description of each film for its scariness rating.

The 2023 Halaloween Lineup:

October 10:* Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *| 2022 | Indonesia
October 17: *Siccîn 3: Love *| 2016 | Turkey
October 24: *Cairo Conspiracy *| 2022 | Egypt***
October 31: *Tiger Stripes* | 2023 | Malaysia***
*** These screenings will be free and in person at the State Theatre

Reserve your tickets/seats: watch.eventive.org/halaloween
__________________
THIS WEEK’S FEATURE: *SICCÎN 3: LOVE* (2016)

From Oct 17th to the 24th, stream the Turkish horror film *Siccîn 3: Love* (2016) on demand at http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween. Pre-order the film anytime, and check out the rest of the month’s Halaloween Horror selection!

2016 | 110 minutes | Turkish | Turkey
Directed by: Alper Mestçi

Halaloween Horror Rating 3/5 | Rating explanation: Contains jump scares, body horror, corpses, jinn, black magic, spells, and sex.

Religious content: Set in Turkey with mostly Muslim characters. Includes prayer, Qur’an, fiqh references, adhan call to prayer.

In *Siccîn 3: Love* (2016), siblings Sedat and Kahder grow up and live a happy life with their childhood friend Orhan. But when the siblings are involved in a terrible car accident, Orhan's faith and sanity are put to the test when he makes a deal with the devil, all in the name of love.
__________________

Halaloween is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, Asian Languages and Cultures, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of American Culture, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Department of Middle East Studies, the Women's and Gender Studies Department, and Shudder.

This event is free and open to all. To watch the remaining Halaloween films, visit: https://watch.eventive.org/halaloween.

For more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan, please visit ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies.

Join our Email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83
Islamic Studies Minor: https://myumi.ch/R5YnQ
Email islamicstudies@umich.edu
Masters Program: https://myumi.ch/v2gVP
Email MIRS-info@umich.edu

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:

Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:46:32 -0400 2023-10-17T15:00:00-04:00 2023-10-17T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – Siccîn 3: Love (2016)
Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Siccîn 3: Love* (2016) (October 18, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113166 113166-21830199@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 18, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival 2023!

What is Halaloween? Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by, for, or about Muslims, to understand: “What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?”

This year’s 2023 film festival will be in-person and online, screening one film a week for the first half of the month of October, and culminating in two in-person screenings at the State Theatre, on Tuesday October 24th and 31st at 7:30 PM.

The festival is free in person and online–but make sure to reserve tickets! Some films may not be available in certain countries. Films will be unlocked online each week of October, and viewers will have the week to watch each film.

We are inclusive of everyone's film needs: from new horror fans who close their eyes through most scary movies, to those who love the gore–we've got films for everyone! Check the Halaloween Horror Rating in the description of each film for its scariness rating.

The 2023 Halaloween Lineup:

October 10:* Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *| 2022 | Indonesia
October 17: *Siccîn 3: Love *| 2016 | Turkey
October 24: *Cairo Conspiracy *| 2022 | Egypt***
October 31: *Tiger Stripes* | 2023 | Malaysia***
*** These screenings will be free and in person at the State Theatre

Reserve your tickets/seats: watch.eventive.org/halaloween
__________________
THIS WEEK’S FEATURE: *SICCÎN 3: LOVE* (2016)

From Oct 17th to the 24th, stream the Turkish horror film *Siccîn 3: Love* (2016) on demand at http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween. Pre-order the film anytime, and check out the rest of the month’s Halaloween Horror selection!

2016 | 110 minutes | Turkish | Turkey
Directed by: Alper Mestçi

Halaloween Horror Rating 3/5 | Rating explanation: Contains jump scares, body horror, corpses, jinn, black magic, spells, and sex.

Religious content: Set in Turkey with mostly Muslim characters. Includes prayer, Qur’an, fiqh references, adhan call to prayer.

In *Siccîn 3: Love* (2016), siblings Sedat and Kahder grow up and live a happy life with their childhood friend Orhan. But when the siblings are involved in a terrible car accident, Orhan's faith and sanity are put to the test when he makes a deal with the devil, all in the name of love.
__________________

Halaloween is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, Asian Languages and Cultures, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of American Culture, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Department of Middle East Studies, the Women's and Gender Studies Department, and Shudder.

This event is free and open to all. To watch the remaining Halaloween films, visit: https://watch.eventive.org/halaloween.

For more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan, please visit ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies.

Join our Email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83
Islamic Studies Minor: https://myumi.ch/R5YnQ
Email islamicstudies@umich.edu
Masters Program: https://myumi.ch/v2gVP
Email MIRS-info@umich.edu

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:

Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:46:32 -0400 2023-10-18T00:00:00-04:00 2023-10-18T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – Siccîn 3: Love (2016)
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (October 18, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827035@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 18, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-10-18T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-18T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Siccîn 3: Love* (2016) (October 19, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113166 113166-21830200@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival 2023!

What is Halaloween? Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by, for, or about Muslims, to understand: “What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?”

This year’s 2023 film festival will be in-person and online, screening one film a week for the first half of the month of October, and culminating in two in-person screenings at the State Theatre, on Tuesday October 24th and 31st at 7:30 PM.

The festival is free in person and online–but make sure to reserve tickets! Some films may not be available in certain countries. Films will be unlocked online each week of October, and viewers will have the week to watch each film.

We are inclusive of everyone's film needs: from new horror fans who close their eyes through most scary movies, to those who love the gore–we've got films for everyone! Check the Halaloween Horror Rating in the description of each film for its scariness rating.

The 2023 Halaloween Lineup:

October 10:* Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *| 2022 | Indonesia
October 17: *Siccîn 3: Love *| 2016 | Turkey
October 24: *Cairo Conspiracy *| 2022 | Egypt***
October 31: *Tiger Stripes* | 2023 | Malaysia***
*** These screenings will be free and in person at the State Theatre

Reserve your tickets/seats: watch.eventive.org/halaloween
__________________
THIS WEEK’S FEATURE: *SICCÎN 3: LOVE* (2016)

From Oct 17th to the 24th, stream the Turkish horror film *Siccîn 3: Love* (2016) on demand at http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween. Pre-order the film anytime, and check out the rest of the month’s Halaloween Horror selection!

2016 | 110 minutes | Turkish | Turkey
Directed by: Alper Mestçi

Halaloween Horror Rating 3/5 | Rating explanation: Contains jump scares, body horror, corpses, jinn, black magic, spells, and sex.

Religious content: Set in Turkey with mostly Muslim characters. Includes prayer, Qur’an, fiqh references, adhan call to prayer.

In *Siccîn 3: Love* (2016), siblings Sedat and Kahder grow up and live a happy life with their childhood friend Orhan. But when the siblings are involved in a terrible car accident, Orhan's faith and sanity are put to the test when he makes a deal with the devil, all in the name of love.
__________________

Halaloween is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, Asian Languages and Cultures, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of American Culture, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Department of Middle East Studies, the Women's and Gender Studies Department, and Shudder.

This event is free and open to all. To watch the remaining Halaloween films, visit: https://watch.eventive.org/halaloween.

For more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan, please visit ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies.

Join our Email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83
Islamic Studies Minor: https://myumi.ch/R5YnQ
Email islamicstudies@umich.edu
Masters Program: https://myumi.ch/v2gVP
Email MIRS-info@umich.edu

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:

Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:46:32 -0400 2023-10-19T00:00:00-04:00 2023-10-19T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – Siccîn 3: Love (2016)
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (October 19, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 19, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-10-19T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-19T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Siccîn 3: Love* (2016) (October 20, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113166 113166-21830201@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival 2023!

What is Halaloween? Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by, for, or about Muslims, to understand: “What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?”

This year’s 2023 film festival will be in-person and online, screening one film a week for the first half of the month of October, and culminating in two in-person screenings at the State Theatre, on Tuesday October 24th and 31st at 7:30 PM.

The festival is free in person and online–but make sure to reserve tickets! Some films may not be available in certain countries. Films will be unlocked online each week of October, and viewers will have the week to watch each film.

We are inclusive of everyone's film needs: from new horror fans who close their eyes through most scary movies, to those who love the gore–we've got films for everyone! Check the Halaloween Horror Rating in the description of each film for its scariness rating.

The 2023 Halaloween Lineup:

October 10:* Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *| 2022 | Indonesia
October 17: *Siccîn 3: Love *| 2016 | Turkey
October 24: *Cairo Conspiracy *| 2022 | Egypt***
October 31: *Tiger Stripes* | 2023 | Malaysia***
*** These screenings will be free and in person at the State Theatre

Reserve your tickets/seats: watch.eventive.org/halaloween
__________________
THIS WEEK’S FEATURE: *SICCÎN 3: LOVE* (2016)

From Oct 17th to the 24th, stream the Turkish horror film *Siccîn 3: Love* (2016) on demand at http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween. Pre-order the film anytime, and check out the rest of the month’s Halaloween Horror selection!

2016 | 110 minutes | Turkish | Turkey
Directed by: Alper Mestçi

Halaloween Horror Rating 3/5 | Rating explanation: Contains jump scares, body horror, corpses, jinn, black magic, spells, and sex.

Religious content: Set in Turkey with mostly Muslim characters. Includes prayer, Qur’an, fiqh references, adhan call to prayer.

In *Siccîn 3: Love* (2016), siblings Sedat and Kahder grow up and live a happy life with their childhood friend Orhan. But when the siblings are involved in a terrible car accident, Orhan's faith and sanity are put to the test when he makes a deal with the devil, all in the name of love.
__________________

Halaloween is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, Asian Languages and Cultures, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of American Culture, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Department of Middle East Studies, the Women's and Gender Studies Department, and Shudder.

This event is free and open to all. To watch the remaining Halaloween films, visit: https://watch.eventive.org/halaloween.

For more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan, please visit ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies.

Join our Email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83
Islamic Studies Minor: https://myumi.ch/R5YnQ
Email islamicstudies@umich.edu
Masters Program: https://myumi.ch/v2gVP
Email MIRS-info@umich.edu

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:

Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:46:32 -0400 2023-10-20T00:00:00-04:00 2023-10-20T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – Siccîn 3: Love (2016)
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (October 20, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827037@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 20, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-10-20T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-20T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Siccîn 3: Love* (2016) (October 21, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113166 113166-21830202@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 21, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival 2023!

What is Halaloween? Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by, for, or about Muslims, to understand: “What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?”

This year’s 2023 film festival will be in-person and online, screening one film a week for the first half of the month of October, and culminating in two in-person screenings at the State Theatre, on Tuesday October 24th and 31st at 7:30 PM.

The festival is free in person and online–but make sure to reserve tickets! Some films may not be available in certain countries. Films will be unlocked online each week of October, and viewers will have the week to watch each film.

We are inclusive of everyone's film needs: from new horror fans who close their eyes through most scary movies, to those who love the gore–we've got films for everyone! Check the Halaloween Horror Rating in the description of each film for its scariness rating.

The 2023 Halaloween Lineup:

October 10:* Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *| 2022 | Indonesia
October 17: *Siccîn 3: Love *| 2016 | Turkey
October 24: *Cairo Conspiracy *| 2022 | Egypt***
October 31: *Tiger Stripes* | 2023 | Malaysia***
*** These screenings will be free and in person at the State Theatre

Reserve your tickets/seats: watch.eventive.org/halaloween
__________________
THIS WEEK’S FEATURE: *SICCÎN 3: LOVE* (2016)

From Oct 17th to the 24th, stream the Turkish horror film *Siccîn 3: Love* (2016) on demand at http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween. Pre-order the film anytime, and check out the rest of the month’s Halaloween Horror selection!

2016 | 110 minutes | Turkish | Turkey
Directed by: Alper Mestçi

Halaloween Horror Rating 3/5 | Rating explanation: Contains jump scares, body horror, corpses, jinn, black magic, spells, and sex.

Religious content: Set in Turkey with mostly Muslim characters. Includes prayer, Qur’an, fiqh references, adhan call to prayer.

In *Siccîn 3: Love* (2016), siblings Sedat and Kahder grow up and live a happy life with their childhood friend Orhan. But when the siblings are involved in a terrible car accident, Orhan's faith and sanity are put to the test when he makes a deal with the devil, all in the name of love.
__________________

Halaloween is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, Asian Languages and Cultures, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of American Culture, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Department of Middle East Studies, the Women's and Gender Studies Department, and Shudder.

This event is free and open to all. To watch the remaining Halaloween films, visit: https://watch.eventive.org/halaloween.

For more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan, please visit ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies.

Join our Email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83
Islamic Studies Minor: https://myumi.ch/R5YnQ
Email islamicstudies@umich.edu
Masters Program: https://myumi.ch/v2gVP
Email MIRS-info@umich.edu

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:

Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:46:32 -0400 2023-10-21T00:00:00-04:00 2023-10-21T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – Siccîn 3: Love (2016)
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (October 21, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827038@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 21, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-10-21T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-21T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Siccîn 3: Love* (2016) (October 22, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113166 113166-21830203@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 22, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival 2023!

What is Halaloween? Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by, for, or about Muslims, to understand: “What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?”

This year’s 2023 film festival will be in-person and online, screening one film a week for the first half of the month of October, and culminating in two in-person screenings at the State Theatre, on Tuesday October 24th and 31st at 7:30 PM.

The festival is free in person and online–but make sure to reserve tickets! Some films may not be available in certain countries. Films will be unlocked online each week of October, and viewers will have the week to watch each film.

We are inclusive of everyone's film needs: from new horror fans who close their eyes through most scary movies, to those who love the gore–we've got films for everyone! Check the Halaloween Horror Rating in the description of each film for its scariness rating.

The 2023 Halaloween Lineup:

October 10:* Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *| 2022 | Indonesia
October 17: *Siccîn 3: Love *| 2016 | Turkey
October 24: *Cairo Conspiracy *| 2022 | Egypt***
October 31: *Tiger Stripes* | 2023 | Malaysia***
*** These screenings will be free and in person at the State Theatre

Reserve your tickets/seats: watch.eventive.org/halaloween
__________________
THIS WEEK’S FEATURE: *SICCÎN 3: LOVE* (2016)

From Oct 17th to the 24th, stream the Turkish horror film *Siccîn 3: Love* (2016) on demand at http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween. Pre-order the film anytime, and check out the rest of the month’s Halaloween Horror selection!

2016 | 110 minutes | Turkish | Turkey
Directed by: Alper Mestçi

Halaloween Horror Rating 3/5 | Rating explanation: Contains jump scares, body horror, corpses, jinn, black magic, spells, and sex.

Religious content: Set in Turkey with mostly Muslim characters. Includes prayer, Qur’an, fiqh references, adhan call to prayer.

In *Siccîn 3: Love* (2016), siblings Sedat and Kahder grow up and live a happy life with their childhood friend Orhan. But when the siblings are involved in a terrible car accident, Orhan's faith and sanity are put to the test when he makes a deal with the devil, all in the name of love.
__________________

Halaloween is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, Asian Languages and Cultures, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of American Culture, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Department of Middle East Studies, the Women's and Gender Studies Department, and Shudder.

This event is free and open to all. To watch the remaining Halaloween films, visit: https://watch.eventive.org/halaloween.

For more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan, please visit ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies.

Join our Email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83
Islamic Studies Minor: https://myumi.ch/R5YnQ
Email islamicstudies@umich.edu
Masters Program: https://myumi.ch/v2gVP
Email MIRS-info@umich.edu

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:

Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:46:32 -0400 2023-10-22T00:00:00-04:00 2023-10-22T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – Siccîn 3: Love (2016)
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (October 22, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827039@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 22, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-10-22T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-22T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Siccîn 3: Love* (2016) (October 23, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113166 113166-21830204@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 23, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival 2023!

What is Halaloween? Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by, for, or about Muslims, to understand: “What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?”

This year’s 2023 film festival will be in-person and online, screening one film a week for the first half of the month of October, and culminating in two in-person screenings at the State Theatre, on Tuesday October 24th and 31st at 7:30 PM.

The festival is free in person and online–but make sure to reserve tickets! Some films may not be available in certain countries. Films will be unlocked online each week of October, and viewers will have the week to watch each film.

We are inclusive of everyone's film needs: from new horror fans who close their eyes through most scary movies, to those who love the gore–we've got films for everyone! Check the Halaloween Horror Rating in the description of each film for its scariness rating.

The 2023 Halaloween Lineup:

October 10:* Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *| 2022 | Indonesia
October 17: *Siccîn 3: Love *| 2016 | Turkey
October 24: *Cairo Conspiracy *| 2022 | Egypt***
October 31: *Tiger Stripes* | 2023 | Malaysia***
*** These screenings will be free and in person at the State Theatre

Reserve your tickets/seats: watch.eventive.org/halaloween
__________________
THIS WEEK’S FEATURE: *SICCÎN 3: LOVE* (2016)

From Oct 17th to the 24th, stream the Turkish horror film *Siccîn 3: Love* (2016) on demand at http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween. Pre-order the film anytime, and check out the rest of the month’s Halaloween Horror selection!

2016 | 110 minutes | Turkish | Turkey
Directed by: Alper Mestçi

Halaloween Horror Rating 3/5 | Rating explanation: Contains jump scares, body horror, corpses, jinn, black magic, spells, and sex.

Religious content: Set in Turkey with mostly Muslim characters. Includes prayer, Qur’an, fiqh references, adhan call to prayer.

In *Siccîn 3: Love* (2016), siblings Sedat and Kahder grow up and live a happy life with their childhood friend Orhan. But when the siblings are involved in a terrible car accident, Orhan's faith and sanity are put to the test when he makes a deal with the devil, all in the name of love.
__________________

Halaloween is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, Asian Languages and Cultures, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of American Culture, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Department of Middle East Studies, the Women's and Gender Studies Department, and Shudder.

This event is free and open to all. To watch the remaining Halaloween films, visit: https://watch.eventive.org/halaloween.

For more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan, please visit ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies.

Join our Email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83
Islamic Studies Minor: https://myumi.ch/R5YnQ
Email islamicstudies@umich.edu
Masters Program: https://myumi.ch/v2gVP
Email MIRS-info@umich.edu

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:

Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:46:32 -0400 2023-10-23T00:00:00-04:00 2023-10-23T23:59:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – Siccîn 3: Love (2016)
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (October 23, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827040@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 23, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-10-23T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-23T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
CMENAS Fall 2023 Colloquium Series Lecture: No Such Thing as ‘Soft Power’ – How Gulf States are Using Sport to Gain Supremacy on the World Stage (October 23, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111698 111698-21827477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 23, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

Gulf states are now one of the most powerful forces in world football. First, in 2008, the United Arab Emirates took control of Manchester City F.C. and transformed the club into a multiple English, and now European champion, the key asset in a group of twelve clubs in five continents; then Qatar, having controversially won the right to host the 2022 World Cup, purchased French giant Paris Saint-Germain F.C. (PSG); and now, Saudi Arabia is on the way to eclipse both, having spent hundreds of millions recruiting some of the sport's most famous names for its state-run and owned national league and clubs; and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), enjoying a uniquely close relationship with world governing body FIFA, is now seen as favorite to hold the 2034 World Cup. The acquisition of 'soft power' is routinely presented as the key reason behind these countries' unprecedented investment in football, as football enables them to burnish/re-define their global image and 'sportswash' their dreadful human rights record. While this is true, this doesn't tell the whole story. All three countries have applied different strategies and have distinct objectives, all of them geo-political rather than reputational in nature. What unites all three projects is not 'soft power', but power itself, on a regional but also, in the case of Saudi Arabia, global level. There is nothing 'soft' about this, even if the rest of the world has so far failed to recognize this essential difference.

Football writer, broadcaster, and investigative journalist Philippe Auclair has been France Football's England correspondent since 1999. He is the England football correspondent for Eurosport.fr, Europe 1, Radio France Internationale, and Swiss national radio RTS, and a regular contributor to the Guardian Football Weekly (UK) podcast, for which he specializes in governance issues and the geopolitical dimension of football. His investigations have been published by Josimar magazine and on the websites of the Arabic and African services of the BBC. His biography of Eric Cantona, *The Rebel Who Would Be King*, was voted 'Football Book of the Year' in both France and the UK, and he won France's 'Scoop Of The Year' award for his investigation into the 'Qatargate' dossier, to which he also devoted two books, published in France and Belgium in 2015 and 2022. He has recently been investigating the sports betting industry as part of a multinational team that won the Investigative Journalism For Europe's Impact Award in 2023.

He recently published on the topic, which he will expand on in his lecture. Please see: https://josimarfootball.com/2023/05/18/boardroom-blitz/

This event is part of the CMENAS Fall Colloquium 2023: “The MENA world after a MENA World Cup” 555 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor.

Colloquium questions: cmenas@umich.edu

This series is funded in part by the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies (CMENAS) U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center (NRC) grant.

To register, go to https://myumi.ch/8eA8n.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 15 Sep 2023 13:38:03 -0400 2023-10-23T12:00:00-04:00 2023-10-23T14:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Workshop / Seminar Philippe Auclair, Journalist, Guardian/Josimar
Martha and the Manufacture and Maintenance of Madness: Distraction, Anxiety, Enslavement, Gender, and the Normative Bodymind (October 23, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113093 113093-21830025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 23, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

The story of Mary and Martha is a text of terror for women and for the mentally disabled and neurodiverse. Martha, and her, “worry and distraction” have been villainized by a long interpretive tradition, making her out to be the poster child for the cares of the material world. Mary has been championed as the model of prayer, spirituality, contemplation, monastic life, and even as the earthly embodiment of heavenly life. Mary and Martha have been put in a competition, and Martha always loses. Much of the recent Feminist and Womanist scholarly conversation around Mary and Martha in Luke 10 has turned upon the nature of Martha’s work, largely under the influence of the history of interpretation of the passage. The crux of the passage, however, hinges not on whether Martha was in the kitchen or doing ministry, but on her labor dispute and Jesus’ response. In order to undermine that millennia old tradition of using the disabled body as something to “think with,” I will contextualize Martha’s “worry and distraction” with respect to her servile labor, and the need to manage “many things.” I will draw upon ancient medical literature, philosophical texts, and narratives that describe worried, effeminate and enslaved bodies in order to demonstrate the ties between the female body, worry, anxiety, and enslaved labor in antiquity. In antiquity Martha’s worry was the expected consequence of the labor that was assigned to women and enslaved persons. In this regard Luke’s gospel is using Martha’s body to “think with,” but Martha’s worry is not a spiritual deficit, it is the disability that is manufactured by unjust labor structures that purposefully assign worry to some bodies and not others.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Sep 2023 10:55:11 -0400 2023-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 2023-10-23T18:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion Poster
Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Siccîn 3: Love* (2016) (October 24, 2023 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/113166 113166-21830205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival 2023!

What is Halaloween? Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by, for, or about Muslims, to understand: “What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?”

This year’s 2023 film festival will be in-person and online, screening one film a week for the first half of the month of October, and culminating in two in-person screenings at the State Theatre, on Tuesday October 24th and 31st at 7:30 PM.

The festival is free in person and online–but make sure to reserve tickets! Some films may not be available in certain countries. Films will be unlocked online each week of October, and viewers will have the week to watch each film.

We are inclusive of everyone's film needs: from new horror fans who close their eyes through most scary movies, to those who love the gore–we've got films for everyone! Check the Halaloween Horror Rating in the description of each film for its scariness rating.

The 2023 Halaloween Lineup:

October 10:* Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *| 2022 | Indonesia
October 17: *Siccîn 3: Love *| 2016 | Turkey
October 24: *Cairo Conspiracy *| 2022 | Egypt***
October 31: *Tiger Stripes* | 2023 | Malaysia***
*** These screenings will be free and in person at the State Theatre

Reserve your tickets/seats: watch.eventive.org/halaloween
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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE: *SICCÎN 3: LOVE* (2016)

From Oct 17th to the 24th, stream the Turkish horror film *Siccîn 3: Love* (2016) on demand at http://watch.eventive.org/halaloween. Pre-order the film anytime, and check out the rest of the month’s Halaloween Horror selection!

2016 | 110 minutes | Turkish | Turkey
Directed by: Alper Mestçi

Halaloween Horror Rating 3/5 | Rating explanation: Contains jump scares, body horror, corpses, jinn, black magic, spells, and sex.

Religious content: Set in Turkey with mostly Muslim characters. Includes prayer, Qur’an, fiqh references, adhan call to prayer.

In *Siccîn 3: Love* (2016), siblings Sedat and Kahder grow up and live a happy life with their childhood friend Orhan. But when the siblings are involved in a terrible car accident, Orhan's faith and sanity are put to the test when he makes a deal with the devil, all in the name of love.
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Halaloween is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, Asian Languages and Cultures, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of American Culture, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Department of Middle East Studies, the Women's and Gender Studies Department, and Shudder.

This event is free and open to all. To watch the remaining Halaloween films, visit: https://watch.eventive.org/halaloween.

For more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan, please visit ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies.

Join our Email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83
Islamic Studies Minor: https://myumi.ch/R5YnQ
Email islamicstudies@umich.edu
Masters Program: https://myumi.ch/v2gVP
Email MIRS-info@umich.edu

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:

Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 18:46:32 -0400 2023-10-24T00:00:00-04:00 2023-10-24T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – Siccîn 3: Love (2016)
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (October 24, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827041@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-10-24T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-24T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival – *Cairo Conspiracy* (2022) (October 24, 2023 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113409 113409-21830966@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Welcome to Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival 2023!

What is Halaloween? Halaloween screens horror films from across the globe that were made by, for, or about Muslims, to understand: “What scares Muslim audiences? Are horror movies halal?”

This year’s 2023 film festival will be in-person and online, screening one film a week for the first half of the month of October, and culminating in two in-person screenings at the State Theatre, on Tuesday October 24th and 31st at 7:30 PM.

The festival is free in person and online–but make sure to reserve tickets! Some films may not be available in certain countries. Films will be unlocked online each week of October, and viewers will have the week to watch each film.

We are inclusive of everyone's film needs: from new horror fans who close their eyes through most scary movies, to those who love the gore–we've got films for everyone! Check the Halaloween Horror Rating in the description of each film for its scariness rating.

The 2023 Halaloween Lineup:

October 10:* Satan’s Slaves 2: Communion *| 2022 | Indonesia
October 17: *Siccîn 3: Love *| 2016 | Turkey
October 24: *Cairo Conspiracy *| 2022 | Egypt***
October 31: *Tiger Stripes* | 2023 | Malaysia***
*** These screenings will be free and in person at the State Theatre

Reserve your tickets/seats: https://watch.eventive.org/halaloween
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THIS WEEK’S FEATURE: *CAIRO CONSPIRACY* (2022)

Join us for a free screening of the Egyptian horror/thriller *Cairo Conspiracy* (2022) on October 24th, 7:30 PM at the State Theatre. Reserve your free tickets now: watch.eventive.org/halaloween, and check out the rest of the month’s Halaloween Horror selection!

2022 | 121 minutes | Arabic | Egyptian
Directed by: Tarik Saleh
Tickets: bit.ly/CCtix

Halaloween Horror Rating: 2/5 | Rating Explanation: Includes eeriness, murders, psychological tension, the political Egyptian state’s relationship to religion, and religious figure corruption.

Religious Content: Set in Egypt, primarily at Al-Azhar University, a historical center of Islamic learning. All characters are Muslim. Includes Qur’an, adhan, prayer, fiqh reasoning, and general discussion of Islam and Islamic learning.

In *Cairo Conspiracy* (2022), Adam, the son of a fisherman, is offered the privilege to study at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, a center of power of global Sunni Islam. Adam then becomes an unwitting pawn in a conflict between Egypt's religious and political elites.
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Halaloween is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, Asian Languages and Cultures, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, the Department of American Culture, the Department of Film, Television, and Media, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Department of Middle East Studies, the Women's and Gender Studies Department, and Shudder.

This event is free and open to all. To watch the remaining Halaloween films, visit: https://watch.eventive.org/halaloween.

For more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan, please visit https://ii.umich.edu/islamicstudies.

Join our Email newsletter: https://myumi.ch/nbW83
Islamic Studies Minor: https://myumi.ch/R5YnQ
Email islamicstudies@umich.edu
Masters Program: https://myumi.ch/v2gVP
Email MIRS-info@umich.edu

Stay updated on our upcoming events by following our socials here:

Facebook: UmichGISC
https://www.facebook.com/UmichGISC/

Twitter: @umichgisc
https://twitter.com/umichGISC

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to islamicstudies@umich.edu.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Film Screening Mon, 02 Oct 2023 19:22:43 -0400 2023-10-24T19:30:00-04:00 2023-10-24T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Film Screening Halaloween: A Muslim Horror Film Festival
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (October 25, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827042@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 25, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-10-25T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-25T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
F23 MEMS Lecture. Sufi Lovers, Safavid Silks, and Early Modern Identity (October 25, 2023 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111212 111212-21826245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 25, 2023 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

The height of fashion at the sixteenth century Safavid court was an ensemble of shimmering gold and silk, interwoven with the tales of legendary lovers from the Khamsa (Quintet) of epic Persian poetry. As Persian poetry was adopted in court circles from Iran to South Asia, Sufi behavior codes embodied by the characters were adapted and propagated by early modern rulers and incorporated into the visual arts, including textiles, as an expression of mystic practice.

Examining textiles alongside Khamsa poetry, manuscript paintings, and primary accounts, the silks reveal cross-cultural expressions of piety and allegiance in a world unified by language and behavior codes, while fragmented by religion and politics. This interdisciplinary study presents new evidence for reattribution of silks based on the migration of textile specialists from the Safavid to the Mughal court, where expert designers produced luxury goods for a sophisticated and educated elite.

Nazanin Hedayat Munroe is Associate Professor and Director of Textiles at City University of New York. An artist and art historian, she received her Ph.D. in art history from University of Bern, Switzerland, specializing in early modern silks, and her M.F.A. in Fiber from Cranbrook Academy of Art.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 31 Aug 2023 09:13:05 -0400 2023-10-25T16:00:00-04:00 2023-10-25T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Lecture / Discussion Portrait of Naqd ‘Ali Beg. Richard Greenbury. 1626. Oil on canvas. L: 83 7/8 in. (213 cm), W: 51 in. (129.5 cm). London, British Library (F 23)
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (October 26, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827043@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 26, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-10-26T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-26T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (October 27, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827044@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 27, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-10-27T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-27T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (October 28, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827045@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 28, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-10-28T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-28T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (October 29, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827046@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 29, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-10-29T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-29T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (October 30, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827047@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 30, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-10-30T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-30T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (October 31, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827048@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 31, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-10-31T08:00:00-04:00 2023-10-31T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
II/CMENAS Roundtable Discussion. The Hamas-Israel War: The Day After (October 31, 2023 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114551 114551-21833040@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 31, 2023 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

II/CMENAS Roundtable Discussion.
The Hamas-Israel War: The Day After
October 31, 2023
1:00-2:30 PM
Presented as Zoom webinar. To register please go to: https://myumi.ch/p73r5

Introduction by Ryan Szpiech, Director, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies; and Associate Professor, Departments of Romance Languages, Middle East Studies, and Judaic Studies, University of Michigan

Panelists:
Shai Feldman, Raymond Frankel Professor in Israeli Politics and Society and founding director of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University
Khalil Shikaki, Professor of Political Science and director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research

Moderator:
Mark Tessler, Samuel J. Eldersveld Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan

Sponsors: University of Michigan's International Institute, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, and Center for Political Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 26 Oct 2023 16:19:38 -0400 2023-10-31T13:00:00-04:00 2023-10-31T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Lecture / Discussion II/CMENAS Roundtable Discussion. The Hamas-Israel War: The Day After
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (November 1, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827049@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 1, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-11-01T08:00:00-04:00 2023-11-01T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (November 2, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827050@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 2, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-11-02T08:00:00-04:00 2023-11-02T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (November 3, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827051@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 3, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-11-03T08:00:00-04:00 2023-11-03T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (November 4, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827052@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 4, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-11-04T08:00:00-04:00 2023-11-04T23:55:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (November 5, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827053@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 5, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-11-05T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-05T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (November 6, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 6, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-11-06T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-06T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 6, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832073@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 6, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-06T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-06T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
CMENAS Fall 2023 Colloquium Series Lecture: Women and the Contested Field of Saudi Football (November 6, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111979 111979-21828088@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 6, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

Until recently, Saudi Arabia was one of few countries that had a men’s national football team, but no women’s team. Until 2018, women did not have access to football stadiums, and before 2020, there was no official women’s league. On the face of it – there was no women’s football in Saudi Arabia. But the story of women’s football that was unfolding before and away from the headlines is a completely different one. In the Saudi capital of Riyadh, a grassroots-initiated women’s football league has been active since 2007. The Riyadh Women’s Football League was initiated and organized by young Saudi women eager to play, and the first season was played in 2008 with eight teams participating. Since the first season, between six and eight teams have participated every year. With no official support the women have kept the league going, though challenges related to everything from renting a field to finding qualified coaches resulted in only two of the teams involved in the first season still active today. Drawing on the story of the first Riyadh Women’s Football League, this talk looks back on the emergence of women’s football in Saudi Arabia in the early 2000s and how pioneering women built a foundation for women’s football in Saudi Arabia.

Charlotte Lysa is a researcher at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo. She is currently part of the project FORM – Football and Religion in the Middle East, where she focuses on Saudi Arabia. Lysa holds a PhD in Middle East studies (2019) from the same university, for which she studied women’s grassroot football in Qatar and Saudi Arabia. She was a visiting fellow at Qatar University (2016), and at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh (2017, 2020 and 2021-2022).

This event is part of the CMENAS Fall Colloquium 2023: “The MENA world after a MENA World Cup” 555 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor.

Colloquium questions: cmenas@umich.edu

This series is funded in part by the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies (CMENAS) U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center (NRC) grant.

To register, go to https://myumi.ch/8eA8n.

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Workshop / Seminar Sat, 09 Sep 2023 20:58:36 -0400 2023-11-06T12:00:00-05:00 2023-11-06T14:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Workshop / Seminar Charlotte Lysa, Research Fellow, University of Oslo
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (November 7, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-11-07T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-07T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 7, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 7, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-07T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-07T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (November 8, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 8, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-11-08T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-08T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 8, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832075@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 8, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-08T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-08T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (November 9, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-11-09T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-09T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 9, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832076@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-09T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-09T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Qahwah & Authors Series: *Feeding Iran: Shi`i Families and the Making of the Islamic Republic* (November 9, 2023 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113594 113594-21831199@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 9, 2023 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Thursday, November 9th, 2023, 6:00 PM ET
Kitab Cafe & Bookstore, 2727 Holbrook Ave, Hamtramck, MI 48212
RSVP: https://bit.ly/RWFeedingIran

Join the University of Michigan Global Islamic Studies Center (GISC) and Rose Wellman, associate professor of Anthropology and associate director of the Center for Arab American Studies (UM-Dearborn), for a book discussion on Iran, food, family, and politics!

Professor Wellman will be speaking about her book *Feeding Iran: Shi`i Families and the Making of the Islamic Republic* (University of California Press 2021). UM-Ann Arbor professor of anthropology Hakem Al-Rustom, will be the discussant for this event. Refreshments will be provided!

About the book:

Since Iran's 1979 Revolution, the imperative to create and protect the inner purity of family and nation in the face of outside spiritual corruption has been a driving force in national politics. Through extensive fieldwork, Professor Rose Wellman examines how Basiji families, as members of Iran's voluntary paramilitary organization, encounter, enact, and challenge this imperative. Her ethnography reveals how families and state elites employ blood, food, and prayer in commemorations of martyrs in Islamic national rituals to create citizens who embody familial piety, purity, and closeness to God.

*Feeding Iran: Shi`i Families and the Making of the Islamic Republic* provides a rare and humanistic account of religion and family life in the post-revolutionary Islamic Republic that examines how home life and everyday piety are linked to state power.

About the author:

Rose Wellman is an anthropologist who specializes in Iran, the Middle East, and its diaspora, including Arab Detroit. Her book *Feeding Iran: Shi’i Families and the Making of the Islamic Republic* draws from ethnographic research in Iran between 2007 and 2010 to explore how everyday family life and piety are linked to state power. Wellman is currently conducting research with Arab Americans that focuses on Metro Detroit’s vibrant Iraqi community. She is a faculty affiliate of the Center for Arab American Narratives at ACCESS and a member of Healthy Dearborn’s research committee. Wellman’s courses at the University of Michigan-Dearborn cover subjects as diverse as the Middle East, religion, kinship and marriage, food, Islam, Islamophobia, anti-racism, globalization, and Arab America, emphasizing critical thinking and project-based learning in a globalized world. Wellman further draws from her research in Metro Detroit and beyond to provide students with real-world ethnographic research experiences and opportunities to engage the diverse community of Southeast Michigan. Between 2014 and 2017, Wellman was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University’s Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 2014 and her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College in 2005.

About the commentator:

Hakem Al-Rustom is the Alex Manoogian Professor of Modern Armenian History and assistant professor of history and anthropology at the University of Michigan. His work interrogates ruins of undocumented histories, ethnographic silences, and memory as methods for historical ethnographies in the aftermath of violence. He is the co-editor of *Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation* (University of California Press 2010) and is currently finishing a book on the afterlives of the *Armenian Genocide in Turkey* (by Columbia University Press).


This event is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center (GISC) at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Oct 2023 14:30:38 -0400 2023-11-09T18:00:00-05:00 2023-11-09T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion Qahwah & Authors Series: *Feeding Iran: Shi`i Families and the Making of the Islamic Republic*
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (November 10, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827058@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-11-10T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-10T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 10, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 10, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-10T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (November 11, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 11, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-11-11T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-11T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (November 12, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 12, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-11-12T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-12T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (November 13, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 13, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-11-13T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-13T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 13, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832080@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 13, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-13T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-13T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (November 14, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-11-14T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-14T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 14, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832081@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-14T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-14T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Afterlife of Occupation: Iraqi Academia and the Peripheries of Resurgence (November 14, 2023 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113651 113651-21831403@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 14, 2023 6:30pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Watch a recording of this past event: https://lib.mivideo.it.umich.edu/media/t/1_ddvsp0d2

Join a discussion exploring the landscape of anti-war advocacy within U.S. universities at the outset of the occupation, the consequences of exile or execution on the framework and prospects of Iraqi academia, and the present-day role of public intellectuals in Iraq. Refreshments will be provided.

Panelists include U-M faculty Juan Cole (History), Renée Ragin Randall (Comparative Literature), and Ali Hussain (Middle East Studies); U-M undergraduate student Nooralhuda Sami (Anthropology); and retired Iraqi professors of literature and fine art.

Walk through the exhibit Shadow and Light: Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics before or after the panel.

Co-organized with the Iraqi American Union at the University of Michigan and sponsored by the University Library and the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 17 Jan 2024 16:15:34 -0500 2023-11-14T18:30:00-05:00 2023-11-14T20:30:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (November 15, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827063@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-11-15T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-15T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 15, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 15, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-15T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-15T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (November 16, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827064@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 16, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-11-16T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-16T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 16, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 16, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-16T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-16T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (November 17, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827065@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-11-17T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-17T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 17, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 17, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-17T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-17T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (November 18, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827066@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 18, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-11-18T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-18T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (November 19, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827067@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 19, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-11-19T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-19T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (November 20, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827068@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 20, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-11-20T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-20T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 20, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832087@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 20, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-20T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-20T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
CMENAS Fall 2023 Colloquium Series Lecture: The Post-spectacle City: The Politics of Space, Nation, and Multispecies Belonging After Dubai Expo 2020 and the 2022 Qatar World Cup (November 20, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/113193 113193-21830480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 20, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

This paper takes as its starting point Gulf cities as multispecies places where human-nonhuman encounters and forms of kinship inform larger questions of urban belonging, racialization, and economic precarity. It is an exploratory paper based on initial observations from multispecies ethnographic research I have recently started conducting in the UAE and within online animal welfare groups for the Gulf region. I use the cases of Dubai Expo 2020 and Qatar’s 2022 World Cup to consider how large-scale urban development and shifting state policies have impacted both human and nonhuman residents, as well as the relationships between them. These spectacular events and the planning around them have particularly affected already-precarious populations like low-wage immigrants from Asia and Africa and stray cats and dogs. The entangled precarities between species are made visible through new urban geographies, state rhetorics of multiculturalism and tolerance, the effects of COVID-19, and policies aimed at producing sustainable cities and environmentally conscious citizens.

Neha Vora is a Professor of Anthropology in the Department of International Studies at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. Her research and teaching interests include diasporas and migration, citizenship, globalized higher education, gender, liberalism, political economy, and human-nonhuman encounters, primarily in the Arabian Peninsula region. She is the author of *Impossible Citizens: Dubai’s Indian Diaspora *(Duke University Press, 2013) and *Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar *(Stanford University Press, 2018). She has also published a co-authored book with Ahmed Kanna and Amelie Le Renard, *Beyond Exception: New Interpretations of the Arabian Peninsula *(Cornell University Press, 2020). Her current research project is examining animal care work in the Gulf and the shifting precarities for both immigrants and the unhoused animals they care for within post-Covid economic conditions and emergent state sustainability discourses and policies.

This event is part of the CMENAS Fall Colloquium 2023: “The MENA world after a MENA World Cup” 555 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor.

Colloquium questions: cmenas@umich.edu

This series is funded in part by the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies (CMENAS) U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center (NRC) grant.

To register, go to https://myumi.ch/8eA8n.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 27 Sep 2023 13:21:27 -0400 2023-11-20T12:00:00-05:00 2023-11-20T14:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Workshop / Seminar Neha Vora, American University of Sharjah
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (November 21, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827069@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 21, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-11-21T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-21T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 21, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832088@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 21, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-21T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-21T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (November 22, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827070@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 22, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-11-22T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-22T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 22, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832089@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 22, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-22T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-22T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (November 25, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827073@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 25, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-11-25T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-25T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (November 26, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 26, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-11-26T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-26T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (November 27, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827075@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 27, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-11-27T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-27T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 27, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832094@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 27, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-27T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-27T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (November 28, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827076@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 28, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-11-28T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-28T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 28, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832095@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 28, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-28T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-28T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (November 29, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 29, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-11-29T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-29T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 29, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832096@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 29, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-29T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-29T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (November 30, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827078@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-11-30T08:00:00-05:00 2023-11-30T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (November 30, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832097@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 30, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-11-30T09:00:00-05:00 2023-11-30T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (December 1, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827079@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 1, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-12-01T08:00:00-05:00 2023-12-01T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (December 1, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832098@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 1, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-12-01T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-01T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (December 2, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827080@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 2, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-12-02T08:00:00-05:00 2023-12-02T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (December 3, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827081@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 3, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-12-03T08:00:00-05:00 2023-12-03T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (December 4, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 4, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-12-04T08:00:00-05:00 2023-12-04T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (December 4, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832101@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 4, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-12-04T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-04T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
CMENAS Fall 2023 Colloquium Series Lecture. The Geopolitics of Sport in the MENA Region (December 4, 2023 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/111684 111684-21827417@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 4, 2023 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

The realm of sports provides a significant arena for exploring power dynamics within and between the Middle East, North Africa, and beyond, given the substantial presence of migrants and from the diaspora originating from this region in Europe and North America. This encompasses inquiries into the formulation of identity within the context of sports, governmental involvement in sports and its strategic utilization for political advantages, the intersection of women and sports, the evolving power dynamics within the sports industry, and the region's emergence as a significant new player. These diverse facets will be explored in the forthcoming presentation.


Dr. Mahfoud Amara holds the position of Associate Professor in Sport Management and Social Sciences at Qatar University. His research interests and publications encompass a wide range of topics, including sports, business, culture, politics, and society in the Arab region and within Muslim communities. He has been invited to speak at numerous international conferences, workshops, and symposia. Additionally, he has contributed to books such as “Sport Politics and Society in the Arab World” (2012), “Sport in Islam and in Muslim Communities” (2015), “Sport in the African World” (2018), and “The Olympic Movement in the Middle East and North Africa” (2018).

This event is part of the CMENAS Fall Colloquium 2023: “The MENA world after a MENA World Cup” 555 Weiser Hall, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor.

Colloquium questions: cmenas@umich.edu

This series is funded in part by the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies (CMENAS) U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center (NRC) grant.

To register, go to https://myumi.ch/8eA8n.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 06 Sep 2023 15:02:58 -0400 2023-12-04T12:00:00-05:00 2023-12-04T14:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Workshop / Seminar Mahfoud Amara, Associate Professor, Qatar University
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (December 5, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 5, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-12-05T08:00:00-05:00 2023-12-05T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (December 5, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832102@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 5, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-12-05T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-05T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (December 6, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 6, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-12-06T08:00:00-05:00 2023-12-06T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (December 6, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832103@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 6, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-12-06T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-06T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (December 7, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827085@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 7, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-12-07T08:00:00-05:00 2023-12-07T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (December 7, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832104@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 7, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-12-07T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-07T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (December 8, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827086@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 8, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-12-08T08:00:00-05:00 2023-12-08T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (December 8, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832105@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 8, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-12-08T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-08T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (December 9, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827087@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, December 9, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-12-09T08:00:00-05:00 2023-12-09T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (December 10, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827088@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, December 10, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-12-10T08:00:00-05:00 2023-12-10T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (December 11, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827089@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 11, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-12-11T08:00:00-05:00 2023-12-11T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (December 11, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832108@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 11, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-12-11T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-11T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (December 12, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 12, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-12-12T08:00:00-05:00 2023-12-12T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (December 12, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832109@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 12, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-12-12T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-12T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (December 13, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827091@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 13, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-12-13T08:00:00-05:00 2023-12-13T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (December 13, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832110@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 13, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-12-13T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-13T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (December 14, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 14, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-12-14T08:00:00-05:00 2023-12-14T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (December 14, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832111@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 14, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-12-14T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-14T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Shadow and Light : Solidarity and Connection with Iraqi Academics (December 15, 2023 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/111416 111416-21827093@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 15, 2023 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This exhibit incorporates a selection of work from the Shadow and Light project, an initiative memorializing Iraqi academics assassinated between 2003-2013, a timeframe which roughly parallels the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. 

Participants from around the world — including Iraqis in diaspora — contributed photographs and personal statements responding to the loss of a particular Iraqi academic listed by the Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq (La Campaña Estatal contra la Ocupación y por la Soberanía de Iraq / IraqSolidaridad 2005-2013). 

The project emerges from a broader effort undertaken by Iraqis and allies to document the assault on Iraqi scholars, intellectuals, and cultural institutions which flared in the wake of the destruction and division wrought by the US-led invasion and occupation. Death threats and assassinations, politically motivated sectarian violence, rampant corruption, and de-Ba’athification policies only further destabilized an educational system already heaving under the devastation of wars, authoritarian regimes, and harsh economic sanctions.

This exhibit invites solidarity with the academics targeted, but also deeper connection with their experiences and the richness of Iraqi academic life through their written legacies and the testimonies of surviving academics, many of whom were driven into exile.

This exhibit in the north lobby is available during Hatcher Library hours (https://myumi.ch/p75dd).

A companion online exhibit, Tracing Iraqi Artists: From Shadow to Light (https://myumi.ch/n7xre), explores modern Iraqi struggle and resistance through contemporary visual art and connection to Iraqi artists and educators. The curators of the online exhibit, 2023 Michigan Library Scholars Zainab Hakim and Serena Safawi, hope to center surviving Iraqi artists as they explore their national and artistic identities and respond to the cycles of violence caused by the Iran-Iraq war, sanctions, and occupation.

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Exhibition Tue, 19 Sep 2023 09:18:04 -0400 2023-12-15T08:00:00-05:00 2023-12-15T23:55:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Photograph of winged bull statues in the National Museum of Iraq by Hassan Abdulrazzak, Iraqi-British playwright, memorializing Essam Sharif Mohammed (PhD History) of the University of Baghdad. Courtesy of the Shadow and Light project.
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (December 15, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832112@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 15, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-12-15T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-15T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (December 18, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832115@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 18, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-12-18T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-18T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (December 19, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832116@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 19, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-12-19T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-19T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (December 20, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 20, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-12-20T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-20T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (December 21, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832118@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 21, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-12-21T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-21T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (December 22, 2023 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832119@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 22, 2023 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2023-12-22T09:00:00-05:00 2023-12-22T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (January 2, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832130@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 2, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2024-01-02T09:00:00-05:00 2024-01-02T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (January 3, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832131@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 3, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2024-01-03T09:00:00-05:00 2024-01-03T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (January 4, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832132@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 4, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2024-01-04T09:00:00-05:00 2024-01-04T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (January 5, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832133@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 5, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2024-01-05T09:00:00-05:00 2024-01-05T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (January 8, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 8, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2024-01-08T09:00:00-05:00 2024-01-08T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (January 9, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832137@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 9, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2024-01-09T09:00:00-05:00 2024-01-09T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (January 10, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832138@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 10, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2024-01-10T09:00:00-05:00 2024-01-10T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (January 11, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832139@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 11, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2024-01-11T09:00:00-05:00 2024-01-11T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
(DE) CONSTRUCTED EXHIBITION BY NOUR BALLOUT (January 12, 2024 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/114010 114010-21832140@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 12, 2024 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program

Gallery Hours: Mon-Friday, 9 am- 5pm, or by appointment: serrag@med.umich.edu

Nour Ballout (b. 1993, Beirut) is a Detroit & Chicago based interdisciplinary artist and curator. They received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Nour Ballout’s practice grapples with the ways looking can manifest as both resistance and violence while negotiating the tensions among visibility, documentation and surveillance. Through photography, archive and space making, their work interrogates the ways the naturalization of structures of power manifest within bodies, built environments, and communities.

Nour currently serves on the Detroit Institute of Arts contemporary arts advisory group. They are the recipient of many awards, fellowships and grants that include the 2023 Modern Ancient Brown Fellowship, the ICI EXPO Curatorial Research Fellowship, the 2022 Michigan Arts and Cultural Council Grant, the 2021 Transforming Power Fund Grant, the 2019 Knight Arts Challenge Award, Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award and many more. Nour has exhibited their work nationally and participated in several artist residencies including the Ghana Think Tank in Detroit, Flux Factory in New York and plans to participate in the Kala Arts Institute Residency in 2023.

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Oct 2023 09:52:24 -0400 2024-01-12T09:00:00-05:00 2024-01-12T17:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 North Campus Research Complex NCRC Art Program Exhibition Wild is The Wind, 2023
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (January 24, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839896@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 24, 2024 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-01-24T10:00:00-05:00 2024-01-24T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
CMENAS MLK Day Event. From the Beloved Community to the Umma: How Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy Shapes Muslim Americans’ Solidarity Politics (January 25, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/114899 114899-21833764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 25, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

“I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government....”
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Since 9/11 and the Global War on Terror, we have seen the racial projects of Islamophobia grow to dangerous ends, targeting Muslims and those who ‘appear’ Muslim as unassimilable Others to be surveilled, contained, and eliminated. At the same time, we have seen growing coalitions of diverse Muslim, Middle Eastern, and Arab Americans coming together to challenge anti-Muslim politics and the systems that legitimize them. These solidarity politics have found roots in the legacies of Dr. King and the Black freedom struggle. However, recognizing the interconnection between Muslim immigrants and Black Americans has been a longer and more complicated journey that offers us all lessons for the deep divides that face us today. This talk draws on archival data and focus groups to trace the strategic trajectory of Muslim American activism from histories of aspirational whiteness to futures of intersectional coalitions. Muslim activists progressed from early strategies centered on maintaining their distance from Black identity and history to eventual strategies that use the memory of Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement as a cultural bridge, joining Muslim identity with Black identity in multiracial coalitions. What results from this new understanding of “who we are” is not only a reclamation of what it means to be American but also an emancipatory conception of what it means to belong to a human community across borders, boundaries, and time.

Hajar Yazdiha is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California, a faculty affiliate of the USC Equity Research Institute, and a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar (2023-2025). Dr. Yazdiha received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She researches the politics of inclusion and exclusion, examining the forces that bring us together and keep us apart as we work to forge collective futures. In addition to award-winning articles, she is author of the recent book, *The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement* (Princeton University Press). This book investigates the political misuses of the memory of civil rights and Dr. King to make sense of how distorting the past matters for our democracy today. Dr. Yazdiha is also a public scholar whose writing and research has been featured in outlets including The New York Times, LA Times, ABC News, The Hill, and USA Today. You can follow her at www.hajaryazdiha.com, on Instagram @ProfHajarYazdiha, and Twitter @HajYazdiha.

Register here: https://myumi.ch/n7RPm

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 05 Jan 2024 15:50:33 -0500 2024-01-25T16:00:00-05:00 2024-01-25T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Lecture / Discussion Hajar Yazdiha, University of Southern California
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (January 29, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 29, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-01-29T12:00:00-05:00 2024-01-29T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (January 31, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839897@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 31, 2024 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-01-31T10:00:00-05:00 2024-01-31T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (February 5, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839926@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 5, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-02-05T12:00:00-05:00 2024-02-05T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
Up to $50,000 Grant For Student Sustainability Projects (February 7, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/117733 117733-21839898@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 7, 2024 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Student Sustainability Coalition

The Student Sustainability Coalition is awarding up to $50,000 for student driven projects that enhance sustainability or in some instances social sustainability for the University of Michigan's campus community. Attend grant information sessions, email, or check out our webpage to learn more!

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Meeting Tue, 06 Feb 2024 09:41:30 -0500 2024-02-07T10:00:00-05:00 2024-02-07T23:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Student Sustainability Coalition Meeting Student Sustainability Coalition members assist the University of Michigan's Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) in the construction of their Mobile Farm Stand. The UMSFP mobile farm stand was awarded funding in Winter semester 2023.
Reclaiming Our Vote: South Asians and Civic Engagement with Mussab Ali (February 9, 2024 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/118535 118535-21841188@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 9, 2024 5:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: American Civil Liberties Union Undergraduate Chapter

Raised in Jersey City by immigrant parents, Mussab’s background profoundly influences his professional and philanthropic endeavors. A prolific writer and speaker, he addresses education, community involvement, and social justice, with features in major publications and appearances on national media. In 2017, Mussab became the youngest official in Jersey City's history and the youngest Muslim elected official in the U.S. at the time. His re-election in 2018 garnered nearly 23,000 votes. He co-founded the Ali Leadership Institute, equipping activists and leaders for civic participation.

Hosted by the South Asian Awareness Network and Muslim Students Association, this 90-minute workshop is open to all students that want to expose themselves to South Asian social justice! Tote bags and t-shirts (limited quantity), along with refreshments, will be provided at no cost for attendees.

For more workshop details and registration, please visit bit.ly/saanference24. For more information, visit @um_saan on Instagram or email saan@umich.edu.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 07 Feb 2024 04:08:52 -0500 2024-02-09T17:00:00-05:00 2024-02-09T18:30:00-05:00 Michigan Union American Civil Liberties Union Undergraduate Chapter Conference / Symposium SAAN Conference Logo
Redefining Inclusivity: Beauty Meets Culture with Aleena Khan (February 9, 2024 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/118536 118536-21841189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 9, 2024 7:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: American Civil Liberties Union Undergraduate Chapter

Aleena Khan is a co-founder and Chief Brand Officer of award-winning, South-Asian owned beauty destination, CTZN Cosmetics. Born in Los Angeles and raised in Dubai, Aleena is a graduate of USC’s Marshall School of Business and former Snapchat alum. Under Aleena’s leadership, CTZN has garnered over 200 press mentions, 5 industry awards, and organic celebrity placements including Beyonce, Megan Fox, Demi Lovato and more. Aleena's forward-thinking approach has paved an entirely new destination within the beauty sector that previously never existed; CTZN Cosmetics is the first ever brand championing the intersection of Beauty meets Culture. Aleena identifies as a thought leader on redefining inclusivity and authentic representation and was recently interviewed on NBC’s TODAY Show, which garnered over 30 million impressions.

Hosted by the South Asian Awareness Network and United Asian American Organizations, this 90-minute workshop is open to all students that want to expose themselves to South Asian social justice! Tote bags and t-shirts (limited quantity), along with refreshments, will be provided at no cost for attendees.

For more workshop details and registration, please visit bit.ly/saanference24. For more information, visit @um_saan on Instagram or email saan@umich.edu.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 07 Feb 2024 04:14:22 -0500 2024-02-09T19:00:00-05:00 2024-02-09T20:30:00-05:00 Michigan Union American Civil Liberties Union Undergraduate Chapter Conference / Symposium SAAN Conference Logo
Keynote: "Where is Here?" with Rummi Khan (February 10, 2024 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/118537 118537-21841190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 10, 2024 11:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: American Civil Liberties Union Undergraduate Chapter

Raised in Jersey City by immigrant parents, Mussab’s background profoundly influences his professional and philanthropic endeavors. A prolific writer and speaker, he addresses education, community involvement, and social justice, with features in major publications and appearances on national media. In 2017, Mussab became the youngest official in Jersey City's history and the youngest Muslim elected official in the U.S. at the time. His re-election in 2018 garnered nearly 23,000 votes. He co-founded the Ali Leadership Institute, equipping activists and leaders for civic participation.

Catered lunch will be provided for attendees after the event. For more workshop details and registration, please visit bit.ly/saanference24. For more information, visit @um_saan on Instagram or email saan@umich.edu.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 07 Feb 2024 04:19:50 -0500 2024-02-10T11:00:00-05:00 2024-02-10T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union American Civil Liberties Union Undergraduate Chapter Conference / Symposium SAAN Conference Logo
Reading the Media: Lessons from Palestine/Israel Coverage with Zayna Syed and Malak Silmi (February 10, 2024 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/118538 118538-21841191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 10, 2024 2:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: American Civil Liberties Union Undergraduate Chapter

Zayna Syed is a freelance journalist who has reported for Public Health Watch, L'Orient Today, Popular Science, the Arizona Republic and the Dallas Morning News. She has reported stories from Texas, Michigan, Arizona and Lebanon. She is in the process of co-reporting a story on water equity in Palestine. Zayna graduated from the University of Michigan in 2021 with a BA in public policy and a minor in history. She served as an investigative reporter for The Michigan Daily and an editor for the Michigan Journal of International Affairs. Zayna is currently a master's student at Columbia Climate School.

Malak Silmi is a freelance journalist from Michigan. She recently worked for Outlier Media as the local government reporter covering Detroit’s city council, police and other departments. Before that, she worked for San Antonio Express-News in Texas, where she covered trending and breaking news. Silmi graduated with bachelor’s degrees in journalism and international studies from Wayne State University in 2020. During her college years, Silmi served as a reporter and news editor at the student newspaper, The South End, and completed internships at Michigan Radio, Detroit Metro Times and The New York Times Student Journalism Institute.

Hosted by the South Asian Awareness Network and Students Allied for Freedom and Equality, this 90-minute workshop is open to all students that want to expose themselves to South Asian social justice! Tote bags and t-shirts (limited quantity), along with refreshments, will be provided at no cost for attendees.

For more workshop details and registration, please visit bit.ly/saanference24. For more information, visit @um_saan on Instagram or email saan@umich.edu.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 07 Feb 2024 04:24:02 -0500 2024-02-10T14:00:00-05:00 2024-02-10T15:30:00-05:00 Michigan Union American Civil Liberties Union Undergraduate Chapter Conference / Symposium SAAN Conference Logo