CSUSB Center for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

The Center for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies and Arab Studies Quarterly First Joint Academic Conference April 20-21, 2018... The Center for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (CIMES) at California State University, San Bernardino and Arab Studies Quarterly will hold a joint conference April 20-21, 2018 at the CSUSB campus, commemorating the 40th anniversary of Arab Studies Quarterly. The Conference theme, U.S. Hegemony and the Arab World, will examine multiple subthemes, including U.S. involvement in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and its role in support of the state of Israel in Palestine and the impact on the indigenous Palestinian population. The Conference will feature two keynote speakers as part of the dinner program on Friday, April 20 and lunch program on Saturday, April 21. The Friday keynote by Dr. Ghada Karmi of the University of Exeter is titled, Israel/Palestine at 70: Still Married to Another Man. The Saturday keynote by Dr. Hatem Bazian of the University of California, Berkeley is titled, Arabs, Muslims and Embedded Intellectuals: Empire and Academia in the 21st Century. The Saturday program finale will include a film screening: 1948: Creation & Catastrophe, followed by a Q & A session with film makers Ahlam Muhtaseb & Andy Trimlett. For questions, please contact the conference co-chairs Professors Ibrahim Aoudé @ [email protected] and Ahlam Muhtaseb @ [email protected] Attendance is free to public (except meals), but registration is mandatoray by April 18. For the program & registration information, please check our website at https://csbs.csusb.edu/cimes

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The Center of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (CIMES) at California State University, San Bernardino is saddened and outraged by the murders of George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, Breanna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless other Black individuals. We recognize the deplorable systemic racism that permeates the past and present of the U.S. and stand in strong solidarity with those who seek to make fundamental changes to the system. CIMES is part of a global movement that advoca...tes for peace and justice. Our commitment at CIMES is to strengthen our solidarity with those of MENA (i.e., Middle East and North Africa) and BIPOC (i.e., Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) in North America and globally through our teaching and community outreach. CIMES also recognizes the contribution of Black Muslims who comprise a third of the American Muslim population in our nation’s civic, athletic, artistic, and civil rights movement, with leaders such as Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Keith Ellison, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Ahmad Jamal, Art Blakey, Ice Cube, T-Pain, to name a few. At CIMES, we organize events to raise awareness about the struggles of Muslim populations and other religious and/or indigenous groups in MENA, most of whom are people of color and live in Global South. We acknowledge the similarities between their plight and those of people of color everywhere, including the Black Lives Matter movement. We condemn racism, anti-Blackness, and white supremacy in all of their forms and are committed to fighting to dismantle them. An injustice to our Black siblings is an injustice to all of us. We declare unequivocally that Black Lives Matter in this country and around the world. See more

Our Iran Panel earlier this month

If you can't join us, you can view the livestream in an hour at: https://www.csusb.edu/video-library/live !

Coming soon .... an important lecture on Iran!Coming soon .... an important lecture on Iran!

If you can't attend, we will livestream the discussion with Mats Grorud at this link: https://www.csusb.edu/video-library/live

Here is the link to the livestream: https://www.csusb.edu/video-library/live

Dear Friends of CIMES, this event was rescheduled to Wednesday, November 13, 6-8 p.m. in University Hall 106 at our main campus. The director, Mats Grorud will be joining us via Zoom. Please email [email protected] if you have any questions.

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Dear Community, it is our pleasure to announce our next event: CHINA AND THE UIGHUR MUSLIMS: A HUMAN AND CULTURAL GENOCIDE Tuesday, November 12, at 6 p.m. in CE 105... The Center for Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies and the History Department invite you to a panel presentation and discussion with Drs. Nurnisa Kurban and Dru Gladney on the Uyghur (also known as Uighurs or Uigurs) people in historical and contemporary geopolitical context, both in China and around the world. The Uyghurs are a largely Muslim ethnic minority people living mainly in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang, who also have a significant diasporic community. Gladney and Kurban will bring their scholarly expertise and personal experience to our campus community. Kurban will provide a personal perspective on Uyghur identity, diaspora, and activism in recent years. Gladney will situate the Uyghur experience within the broader Muslim world of China, which also includes the Hui and Kazakh people. Recent developments in the region, including the mass internment of Uyghurs and proscription of some cultural and religious practices by the Beijing government, have made this an urgent topic around the world. According to The Guardian, MORE THAN 1 MILLION UIGHUR MUSLIMS HELD IN CHINESE DETENTION CENTERS? Dr. Dru C. Gladney is Chair and Professor of Anthropology at Pomona College in Claremont, California and recent President of the Pacific Basin Institute. He is author of the award-winning book, Muslim Chinese: Ethnic Nationalism in the People's Republic (Harvard University Press, 1996, 2nd edition) as well as Ethnic Identity in China: The Making of a Muslim Minority Nationality (Wadsworth, 1998); Making Majorities: Constituting the Nation in Japan, China, Korea, Malaysia, Fiji, Turkey, and the U.S. (Editor, Stanford University Press, 1998); and Dislocating China: Muslims, Minorities, and Other Sub-Altern Subjects (Chicago University Press, 2004). Dr. Nurnisa Kurban is an Uyghur American and Board member of UyghurLA. She is also an assistant principal at Helen Bernstein High School. Her goal is to educate people about Uyghurs and the human rights violations and atrocities that they are facing in China. The panel will be moderated by History Professor Jeremy Murray.