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2025 Fall Colloquium Series

CMENAS is pleased to announce the 2025 Fall Colloquium, featuring an array of speakers with the theme.

Hidden Histories & Silenced Lives

Wednesdays at 2 PM, 555 Weiser Hall, 500 Church St. (unless noted)

Colloquium Questions: cmenas@umich.edu.

September 10 | Kathryn Babayan, University of Michigan

Family Archives and Female Spaces of Intimacy


September 17 | Hanan Hammad, University of Houston

Labor of Love: The Poor First Son of Bitches


September 24 | Ali Ahmida, University of New England

Confronting Silence and Invisibility: The Forgotten Genocide in Libya
 

October 1 | Khaled Fahmy, Tufts University

When Enslaved Men Could Sue Their Masters and Win: A Case from Nineteenth-Century Egypt
 

October 8 | Madeleine Baran, Journalist for New York Times/ Condé Nast

U.S. Massacres of Civilians in Iraq
 

October 15 |  Yasmin Moll, University of Michigan

The Revolution Within: Islamic Media and the Struggle for a New Egypt
 

October 22 |  Aliyah Khan, University of Michigan

The Caribbean Qasida: Muslim Devotional Performance in Guyana and Trinidad
 

November 5 |  Salman Adil Hussain, Miami University

The Storied Gulf: Storytelling, Migration, and Masculinities
 

November 19 | Tamara Rayan, University of Michigan

Memory as Perseverance: Memory: Archiving Palestine between Homeland and Diaspora


December 3 | Cynthia Magallanes-Gonzalez, University of Michigan

Sub-Saharan Community Leaders in Morocco