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Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies (CMENAS)
Recent News
Pulitzer Prize Winner Jake Halpern to Present at CMENAS Colloquium Series, Monday, Nov 18, 2024
Jake Halpern explores the power of narrative in his talk, ‘The Art of Storytelling in Words, Pictures, & Sound.
ASC to Host Symposium on Sudan, November 18
This symposium will bring together scholars, policymakers, and practitioners to examine the complex geopolitical, socio-economic, and cultural forces shaping Sudan’s present and future.
The Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies (CMENAS) enhances awareness of the peoples, cultures, and languages in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This vitally important region of the world constitutes a highly diverse cultural area now undergoing rapid and large-scale change.
Study of the MENA region began at U-M in 1889. Since the inception of the program in 1961, U-M has been committed to area studies and language training. In 1993, CMENAS became a member of the U-M International Institute, which seeks to stimulate research and teaching on critical areas of the world and to foster cooperation among the university’s departments, schools, and colleges.
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Events
Featured
Dec
02
CMENAS 2024 Fall Colloquium Series. Telling Migrants' Realities in a Hostile Political Context: Renewing the Discourse and its Forms
Jérôme Tubiana, Advisor on migration and refugees issues Doctors without Borders
12:00 PM
555
Weiser Hall
Upcoming
Dec
04
Donia Human Rights Roundtable | The Hazards of Reporting on Human Rights Abuses
Baktygul Chynybaeva, Kunāl Majumder, Zahra Nader
4:00 PM
Koessler Room - 3rd Floor
Michigan League
Feb
05
CMENAS MLK Day Event. Black-on-Black Solidarity: Falasteen between George Jackson and Kwame Ture (An Anti-Curator’s Talk)
Greg Thomas, Black Studies and Literature Professor at Howard University and Tufts University
4:30 PM
1010
Weiser Hall
