Saladdin Ahmed, NUIEC Scholar Lecture Series
Country of Origin: IraqLocation: Canada “Social Space, Exile, and Critical Philosophy in the Age of Extremism” My research and teaching are interdisciplinary, spanning philosophy and linguistics as...
View ArticleNew Article: “The 9/11 I Lived in Gaza”
By Nael HijjoSeptember 11, 2026 Published in The Progressive Magazine One very vivid memory that I will never forget took place on September 11, 2001. I was fourteen years old, […] The post New...
View ArticleMedia, Truth, and Power
Tuesdays, October 6 – December 8 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM ET Hosted on Zoom Register Here Course Overview The contemporary turn toward illiberal politics across numerous countries reveals a […] The post...
View ArticleData, Displacement, and Democratic Governance: Interpreting and Visualizing...
Tuesdays, October 6 – December 8 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM ET Hosted on Zoom Register Here Course Overview This ten-week seminar introduces participants to a set of freely available […] The post Data,...
View ArticleResearching Conflict and Humanitarian Contexts: Feminist Methodologies,...
Thursdays, October 8 – December 10 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM ET Hosted on Zoom Register Here Course Overview Research in conflict and humanitarian settings is often seen as a […] The post Researching...
View ArticleWomen and the Politics of Resistance: Law, Religion and Power in the Muslim...
Wednesdays, October 7 – December 9 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM ET Hosted on Zoom Register Here Course Overview In the modern Muslim world, many states emerging from conflict or […] The post Women and the...
View ArticleWords as Weapons: How Wikipedia Became a Battlefield for Cultural Heritage
Wednesdays, October 7 – December 9 9:30 AM – 11 AM ET Hosted on Zoom Register Here Course Overview Wikipedia presents itself as a neutral encyclopedia — the sum of […] The post Words as Weapons: How...
View ArticleRefuge Without Refuge: Displacement, Gender Violence, and the Politics of...
Mondays, October 5 – December 7 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM ET Hosted on Zoom Register Here Course Overview This seminar opens with a core question at the heart of […] The post Refuge Without Refuge:...
View ArticleGender, Representations, and Digital Media: Reclaiming Empowerment by...
Mondays, October 5 – December 7 10:45 AM – 12:15 Hosted on Zoom Register Here Course Overview This seminar introduces key concepts for understanding gender, representation, and empowerment in the […]...
View ArticleAI and Human Rights in Conflict and Transition
Fridays, October 2 – December 4 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM ET Hosted on Zoom Register Here Course Overview This 10-week seminar series aims to equip participants with the critical […] The post AI and Human...
View ArticleReligion, Nationalism, and Resistance in Southeast Asia and its Diasporas
Fridays, October 2 – December 4 11:15 AM – 12:45 PM Hosted on Zoom Register Here Course Overview Southeast Asia is home to the world’s largest stateless population and some […] The post Religion,...
View ArticleAnouar Rahmani, NUIEC Scholar Lecture Series
Country of Origin: AlgeriaFormerly hosted by City of Asylum. “The Salman Rushdie Attack: When a Literary Threat Becomes a Physical Scene” A lecture reflecting on the attack on Salman Rushdie […] The...
View ArticleDaria Vystavkina, NUIEC Scholar Lecture Series
Country of Origin: UkraineLocation: Germany “Autoethnography in Times of Censorship” When societies become polarized and life unsafe, we fall silent. We balance between propaganda and what we witness,...
View ArticleBengi Gumrukcu, NUIEC Scholar Lecture Series
Country of Origin: TurkeyLocation: US “Opposition Parties Abroad: Divergent Tactics of Parties in the Diaspora” While existing literature on party politics primarily centers on nation states, the...
View ArticleNasim Sohail, NUIEC Scholar Lecture Series
Country of Origin: AfghanistanLocation: US “Academic Freedom – How Do We Know When We Are No Longer Free?” A proposed panel discussion featuring consortium scholars on the erosion of academic […] The...
View ArticleAndrii Kostyriev, NUIEC Scholar Lecture Series
Country of Origin: UkraineLocation: Lithuania “Social Media Age: The Rise or Decay of Democracy” The rapid expansion of social media has fundamentally transformed the architecture of political...
View ArticleJuan Carlos Rosillo-Villena, NUIEC Scholar Lecture Series
Country of Origin: Venezuela Formerly hosted by Coloumbia Global Center, Santiago. “Political Discourse, Democracy and Institutional Change in Latin America: Insights from the Progressive Experience”...
View ArticleMuhammed Muharram, NUIEC Scholar Lecture Series
Country of Origin: YemenLocation: Germany “Water as Archive: Re-imagining Exile, Memory, and Identity through the Blue Humanities from Yemen to the World” This talk approaches water not merely as...
View ArticleMawahib Hassan, NUIEC Scholar Lecture Series
Country of Origin: SudanFormerly hosted by Columbia Global Center, Amman. “The Importance of Social Networks in the Survival and Adaptation of Displaced Sudanese in Turkey” This lecture presents...
View ArticleHomeira Qaderi, NUIEC Scholar Lecture Series
Country of Origin: AfghanistanLocation: US “Writing as Resistance: Women’s Fiction and the Struggle for Voice in Contemporary Afghanistan” This talk explores how contemporary Afghan women writers use...
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