Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at NYU

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Thank you to all who participated in and attended this engaging book talk, “Cultural Co-Resistance in Palestine/Israel: ...
09/25/2026

Thank you to all who participated in and attended this engaging book talk, “Cultural Co-Resistance in Palestine/Israel: Presented by Hana Morgenstern in Conversation with Ammiel Alcalay” on September 24, 2026.

A special thank you to our CUNY co-sponsors, the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center, the Center for the Humanities Lost and Found Initiative, and the Hunter College Arabic Program.

Check out Combat Breathing, curated by KJ Abudu and Adam HajYahia, starting October 1st!Combat Breathing Vol. II: A Symp...
09/24/2026

Check out Combat Breathing, curated by KJ Abudu and Adam HajYahia, starting October 1st!

Combat Breathing Vol. II: A Symposium on Aesthetics and Politics is a multi-site platform, spanning film and video screenings, critical discussions, and focused study sessions that will take place throughout October 2026. Responding to the current geopolitical conjuncture, it asks what roles artistic and intellectual production, circulation, and collective study might assume amid intensifying imperial violence and renewed global counter-mobilizations. In an era when imaging and communications technologies are increasingly deployed to discipline and cultivate collective imagination and stabilize statist and capitalist power, the symposium responds by foregrounding insurgent poetics, militant pedagogy, and autonomous or repurposed infrastructures of media production, distribution, and reception.

📆 Oct 1-31 | 6:30 PM - 8:15 PM
🎟️ Tickets through Anthology Film Archives: https://buff.ly/31TC2iY
🖇️ To learn more https://buff.ly/1475Y4Q

Did you know the New York Kurdish Festival (Kurdish Cultural Center New York) will celebrate its landmark 10th edition f...
09/23/2026

Did you know the New York Kurdish Festival (Kurdish Cultural Center New York) will celebrate its landmark 10th edition from Sept. 29 through Oct. 4, 2026? And we're a proud co-sponsor this year!

For a decade, NYKFF has brought Kurdish films, filmmakers, stories, and culture to audiences across New York City. This milestone edition will bring together filmmakers, artists, writers, members of the Kurdish diaspora, New York audiences, and international guests for film screenings, filmmaker conversations, panel discussions, and cultural events. The festival will feature works representing the diversity of Kurdish experiences and voices from across Kurdistan and the global diaspora.

📆 September 29 - October 4, 2026
🎤 See the schedule on the NYKFF website
📍 Village East by Angelika | 181-189 2nd Avenue
🎟️ Open to the public
🖇️ https://buff.ly/VRywvdZ

Meet Sobh Saeed Rid, our student spotlight from the class of 2028 💫 Sobh is enrolled in the joint Global Journalism and ...
09/22/2026

Meet Sobh Saeed Rid, our student spotlight from the class of 2028 💫

Sobh is enrolled in the joint Global Journalism and Near Eastern Studies program as a Falak Sufi fellow. Hailing from Pakistan, she graduated with a B.A. in Communication and Design from Habib University in June 2026, where she served as the editor-in-chief of Arzu Anthology. Her research and journalistic interests are rooted in her hometown in Sindh, with a particular focus on gender and marginalized communities. At the Kevorkian Center, she is interested in exploring questions of gender, language politics and cultural identity across the Near East and South Asia through both scholarly research and narrative journalism.

Welcome to our community, Sobh!

Don't miss out on NYU's CRACS Co-Lab Speakers Series event, "The Dialectics of Infrastructural Power" with Burçe Çelik.W...
09/18/2026

Don't miss out on NYU's CRACS Co-Lab Speakers Series event, "The Dialectics of Infrastructural Power" with Burçe Çelik.

What happens to our theories of infrastructural power when its history is written from imperial peripheries? Critical scholarship has powerfully demonstrated how infrastructures were integral to the violence of liberal imperialism and capitalism. This talk contributes to these debates by asking what is specific about communications infrastructures and the forms of power they materialise.

📆 Sept. 25 | 12:30 PM - 2 PM
🎤 Burçe Çelik (Loughborough University London)
📍 NYU Steinhardt | 196 Mercer St, 8 floor, Conference Room
🎟️ Open to public with registration
🖇️ https://buff.ly/IL7FQXy

Join us for “What is Recorded and What is Erased,” a film program by Maryam Tafakory. This program of short films will s...
09/17/2026

Join us for “What is Recorded and What is Erased,” a film program by Maryam Tafakory.

This program of short films will share Tafakory's practice working across moving image, text, and performance. Her process unfolds through long, unfinished research and gathers into constellations of speculative nonfiction pieces. She layers archival fragments, poems, newspaper clippings, audio recordings, declassified documents, and state-produced images to trace the space between what is recorded and what is erased.

📆 Oct. 14 | 7 PM
🎤 Maryam Tafakory (Ruskin School, University of Oxford)
📍 Cantor Film Center Room 101 | 36 E 8th St
🎟️ Open to the public
🖇️ https://buff.ly/KbnMacq

This event is co-sponsored by: The Flaherty Film Seminar, The Liberal Studies Global Media Lab, The Iranian Studies Initiative, The Center for Media, Culture and History, and The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality

09/16/2026

Back to school, back to community!

On September 15, 2026, we kicked off the year with our Back to School Gathering, bringing together students, faculty, and staff from the Kevorkian Center & the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Department.

From new connections to deepening bonds, the evening was full of energy, conversation, and collective vision. We’re grateful to stand together as a community ready to support, learn, and grow.

Huge thanks to everyone who showed up and made this gathering memorable. Here’s to building and thriving together this year.

Meet Yezen Saadeh, our student spotlight from the class of 2028 💫Yezen Saadah is a student in the Near Eastern Studies a...
09/15/2026

Meet Yezen Saadeh, our student spotlight from the class of 2028 💫

Yezen Saadah is a student in the Near Eastern Studies and Global & Joint Program Studies - NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute program. He graduated from NYU in 2026 with a bachelor's degree in Cinema Studies and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. At NYU, he served as editor-in-chief of the independent student newspaper, the Square News, and will intern with Zeteo during the Fall 2026 semester.

His writing has appeared in the for Palestine Studies, , in America, and News in Amman, Jordan. Yezen wrote his honors thesis on the historical and ongoing development of Palestinian literature, and is interested in the ways nationalism is shaped and expressed under conditions of settler colonialism, exile, and diaspora. He is also interested in modern Arabic literature, Arab cinema, and criticism.

Welcome to our community, Yezen!

Register now for the 2026 NYU Migration Network Annual Conference! This conference makes academic and policy research on...
09/14/2026

Register now for the 2026 NYU Migration Network Annual Conference!

This conference makes academic and policy research on immigration policy available to the NYU community, as well as to broader academic communities in the NYC area. For the 2026 conference, over the course of the day, scholars and journalists will cover multiple aspects of AI and Immigration Policy, from ethics, to current uses, to the emerging technological developments. The day concludes with a panel on activism, action and accountability in NYC featuring major voices from community groups.

📆 October 7, 2026 | 9:30 AM - 5 PM
🎤 Welcome address by Clay Shirky (NYU) and Natasha Iskander (NYU). Full list of speakers on our website.
📍 Main Event Space, 105 East 17th Street, New York, NY 10003
🎟️ Open to public with registration
🖇️ https://buff.ly/F3170kc

Join the Iranian Studies Initiative (ISI) for a lecture on "Reading Across Borders and Worlds: Global and Comparative Pe...
09/10/2026

Join the Iranian Studies Initiative (ISI) for a lecture on "Reading Across Borders and Worlds: Global and Comparative Perspectives on Modern Persian Literature."

Persian literature has often been studied within national and disciplinary boundaries. This ISI discussion brings together Atefeh Akbari and Amir Moosavi to explore modern and contemporary Persian literature through comparative, transnational approaches. Their conversation with Sinan Antoon will consider global literary connections, Iranian and Iraqi cultural exchange, and the possibilities of reading Persian literature beyond the national canon.

📆 Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
📍 Kevorkian Center, Ettinghausen Library, 255 Sullivan Street & on Zoom
🎤 Amir Moosavi (Rutgers), Atefeh Akbari (Barnard College) & discussant Sinan Antoon (NYU)
🎟️ This hybrid event is open to the public with registration
🖇️ https://buff.ly/hSFfWYi

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