Join us for a book talk exploring the complex political legacy of post-Ottoman #Iraq and #Syria following their independence in the 1940s and 1950s. While parliamentary rule, political parties, and civil society flourished, emergency laws and military intervention challenged democratic governance. The discussion will examine how both countries navigated questions of citizenship, national development, and the balance of political power, and how these struggles to establish genuine sovereignty continue to resonate today. 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘂 𝗥𝗲𝘆 is currently a senior researcher at CNRS-EHESS and a fellow researcher at the Wits History Workshop in Johannesburg. 👉 Sponsored by: @abbasiprogram and @mideaststanford #AbbasiProgram #StanfordIslamicStudies #History

📢📚 UPCOMING BOOK TALK: ‘𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝗴𝗲’ 𝗼𝗿 ‘𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗹𝗼𝘁𝘀’: 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗾 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝘆𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟭𝟵𝟱𝟬𝘀 | 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘂 𝗥𝗲𝘆 🗓️ Mon, Oct. 26 ⏰ 4:00-5:30 PM 🏫 Encina Commons 123 🎟️ tinyurl.com/MatthieuRey

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Join performance artist, translator, and musician 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗵 𝗟𝗶𝘇𝗮 𝗚𝗮𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗶 for a transcendent night of music and #poetry, featuring acclaimed translations of the 13th century mystic #Rumi and musical compositions sung in the original Persian. Accompanied by cellist 𝗜𝘀𝗮𝗯𝗲𝗹 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘃𝗶, Grammy-nominated multi-instrumentalist 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗵𝘇𝗮𝗱 𝗜𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘆, and percussionist 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗮𝘀 𝗞𝘂𝗻𝘇𝗹𝗶, Gafori creates a vibrant cross-cultural musical and poetic dialogue as Rumi’s words tenderly speak to us, ushering us into more loving and soulful realms of being. The translations are published in two volumes, 𝘎𝘰𝘭𝘥 and 𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳, by New York Review Books. 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗵 𝗟𝗶𝘇𝗮 𝗚𝗮𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗶 is a New York City-born translator, performance artist, writer and educator of Iranian descent. 👉 Sponsored by: Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, @mideaststanford #AbbasiProgram #StanfordIslamicStudies #PersianPoetry

🎵📣 𝗛𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗛 𝗟𝗜𝗭𝗔 𝗚𝗔𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗜 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗥𝗨𝗠𝗜: 𝗚𝗢𝗟𝗗 & 𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗥 | 𝗔 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗼𝗲𝘁𝗿𝘆 🗓️ Fri, Oct. 23 ⏰ 7:00-8:00 PM 🏫 Dinkelspiel Auditorium 471 Lagunita Drive, Stanford, CA 94305 🎟️ Register: tinyurl.com/Haleh2026

Join us for a talk by 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗮 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist author, examining a leading Islamic scholar and activist, amina wadud. Drawing on archival materials, she will discuss wadud’s journey as a Methodist preacher’s daughter who spearheaded civil rights movements on four continents. Critical to understanding wadud is her experience and ever-changing relationship to both #Islam and the United States. Now recognised as a leading theologian, wadud’s story and work have resulted in countless Muslim #women and queer people seeing their faith anew. #AbbasiProgram #StanfordIslamicStudies

📣📚 UPCOMING BOOK TALK: "𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝘄𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗱 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗕𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝗙𝗮𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗺 𝗫" | 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗮 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 🗓️ Tue, Oct. 13, 2026 ⏰ 5:30-7:00 PM 🏫 Encina Commons 123 615 Crothers Way, Stanford, CA 94305 🎟️ Register: tinyurl.com/CarlaPower

👉 Sponsored by: @abbasiprogram, @mideaststanford, Program on Arab Reform and Development (@StanfordCDDRL) After close to 14 years of cruel struggle, the “eternal” #Assad regime was overthrown. #Syria came out of that eternity quite shapeless. This talk explores the trajectory of Syria from the beginning of the #revolution to the present day, and examines future possibilities. Yassin Al-Haj Saleh is a Syrian writer and translator, and an International Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Humanities Center. #AbbasiProgram #StanfordIslamicStudies

🇸🇾📢 UPCOMING EVENT "Syria Today: Where Was It? Where Is It Right Now? And Where Is It Heading?" | @Yassinhs 🗓️ Mon, Oct. 19, 2026 ⏰ 5:00-6:30 PM 🏫 Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall 🎟️ Register: tinyurl.com/YassinAlHaj

🍂📚 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗺𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 @Stanford 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀: How did the world first become “global”? From silver mined in the Andes and silk bought in China to plantation empires across the Atlantic, this Stanford #history course explores how money, people, goods, and belief stitched together an increasingly connected world from 1400–1800. 🔗 Enroll: tinyurl.com/AutumnBazzi

📖💡 As we look ahead to our 2025–26 annual report, we’re revisiting a final highlight from last year’s #Spotlight. Historian @nilayozok discusses her research on Ottoman #Kurdistan, her second book project, and her year of scholarship at Stanford. 🔗 Read more: tinyurl.com/NilaySpotlight

📢 𝗪𝗲'𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗱𝗜𝗻! 🎉 Follow our official page on LinkedIn and stay connected with our scholarship, events, and news. ⤵️ linkedin.com/company/abbasip…

(2/3) ☪️📜💡 As we prepare our 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱-𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁, we're revisiting our featured interview with @HooverInst Fellow @colebunzel from last year's report. 🔗 Read the full interview about the historical roots of #Wahhabism and its influence on #Islamic political thought: tinyurl.com/SpotlightColeBun…

🇹🇷📊🗳️ (1/3) As we prepare our 2025-26 Annual Report, we're looking back at the featured interviews with our affiliate scholars from last year's Spotlight report. Read the interview with Ali Carkoglu about #Turkey's evolving political landscape. tinyurl.com/AbbasiSpotlight2…

🎥📜🌍 Ceren Ucan, Fulbright Visiting Scholar @Stanford, presents her research on largely overlooked Ottoman–German #propaganda campaign against the British Empire during #WWI, exploring how it sought to mobilize Muslims against the British. youtu.be/9_Q2LIGCuKc?si=omuG…

🎥🇱🇧📚 Watch our book talk with Prof. 𝗬𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗽𝗲𝗸, examining political crises and #activism in #Lebanon. youtu.be/hY0izJr7c6Q

Join us for an interdisciplinary graduate workshop featuring student paper presentations on research in Art History, Department of Languages, Cultures, and Languages, History of Science, Ottoman History, and Religious Studies. Each presentation will be 15-20 minutes, followed by a 5-7 minute response from an assigned respondent. A Q&A discussion will take place after each presentation panel. 9:30-10:00 a.m.: Breakfast and opening remarks 10:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.: Panel presentation I 12:30-1:30 p.m.: Lunch 1:30-3:00 p.m.: Panel presentation II 3:00-3:30 p.m.: Coffee/Pastries and Closing Remarks

🖋️📜 Join us for this year's Islam & Science Graduate Student Workshop! 🗓️  Saturday, June 6, 2026 ⏰  9:30 AM - 4:00 PM 🏫  Building 200, Room 307 450 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305 🎟️ To RSVP at [email protected]

👉 Sponsored by: Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, @mideaststanford On August 2, 1914, the Ottoman and German Empires concluded an alliance, and on October 29, the Ottoman Empire entered World War I as part of the Central Powers. Soon thereafter, the Ottoman Sultan proclaimed jihad, while from December 1914, the German Foreign Office began promoting uprisings against the Allies. Throughout the war, Ottoman and German authorities produced a wide range of propaganda materials, including pamphlets, leaflets, and newspapers. This talk examines the largely overlooked Ottoman–German propaganda campaign against the British Empire, exploring how it sought to mobilize Muslim opinion and challenge British imperial authority. 𝗖𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗨𝗰𝗮𝗻 is an Assistant Professor of History at Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey, and currently a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Stanford University. #AbbasiProgram #StanfordIslamicStudies #Propaganda #WorldWarI #GermanOttomanAlliance

📢🌐📰 Allies in Propaganda: The Ottoman–German Campaign Against the British Empire in World War I with Ceren Uçan 🗓️  Wed, May 20, 2026 ⏰  12:00-1:30 PM 🏫   Encina Commons 123 615 Crothers Way, Stanford, CA 94305 🎟️ Register: tinyurl.com/AlliesinPropagan…