Near East
Filmmaker Jacob Bender's Out of Cordoba will be screened at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17, at IU Cinema. The documentary film explores Jewish and Muslim relationships by examining the lives of two of the most important thinkers to emerge from medieval Spain: Averroes the Muslim, and his Jewish counterpart, Rabbi Moses Maimonides.
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Scholars from across the United States are gathering this Friday (Sept. 23) at Indiana University Bloomington to share the latest policy-relevant research and to advance discussion of research methods to study the affairs of Muslim minorities in the West.
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John Pomfret, an award-winning journalist and diplomatic correspondent for The Washington Post, will speak about China on Feb. 3 (Thursday) at the Indiana University School of Journalism.
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National Public Radio national correspondent Jamie Tarabay will keynote a half-day workshop about Islam and Muslim practices for journalists and media professionals on March 27 in Bloomington, presented by Voices and Visions -- a consortium of six Title VI National Resource Centers at IU, funded by the Social Science Research Council.
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This year's Middle Eastern Arts Festival again will feature a vivid array of music and dance from the region, as well as exhibits, museum events and presentations by artists and scholars. Most festival events, which run from Feb. 4 through April 20, require no admission fee. All are open to the public.
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About 80 faculty members at Indiana University's Bloomington campus have research or professional interests in the Middle East. They can be found from the Kelley School of Business to the Jacobs School of Music and in many specialized areas as well, such as designing national health care plans and government administration. The new director of IU's Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program hopes to involve as many of them as possible in the program's future activities.
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