MESA: Middle East Student Association At Kenyon

MESA: Middle East Student Association At Kenyon MESA @ Kenyon is a cultural organization that promotes a better understanding of the MENA region within the Kenyon Community.

10/29/2017
CELEBRATING REFUGEES OR NORMALIZING MASS DISPLACEMENT? MESA guest speaker Phyllis Bennis writes about the implications o...
08/22/2016

CELEBRATING REFUGEES OR NORMALIZING MASS DISPLACEMENT? MESA guest speaker Phyllis Bennis writes about the implications of Rio 2016 in normalizing the displacement of millions. http://bit.ly/2bwPvkx

It was after midnight when the small refugee Olympic team strode into the stadium in Rio, the very last before host country Brazil’s huge contingent danced in to the samba-driven opening ceremonies. Ten amazing athletes, originally from four separate countries but sharing their status as unable to r...

SIGN THE PETITION: STOP BOMBING CIVILIANS. PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE http://stop-bombing-civilians.org/
08/18/2016

SIGN THE PETITION: STOP BOMBING CIVILIANS. PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE http://stop-bombing-civilians.org/

Explosive weapons kill civilians and destroy homes, schools and hospitals. Sign the petition today to stop bombing civilians.

Dr. Beshara Doumani's Lecture on the social history of family life in Ottoman Syria at Kenyon CollegeBeshara Doumani '77...
07/21/2016

Dr. Beshara Doumani's Lecture on the social history of family life in Ottoman Syria at Kenyon College

Beshara Doumani '77 is the director of Middle East Studies and the Joukowski Family Distinguished Professor of Modern Middle East History at Brown University. He received his BA in History at Kenyon College (1977) and PhD in History from Georgetown University. As a prominent historian and public intellectual Beshara Doumani’s primary research has been in recovering the history of social groups, places, and time periods that have been silenced or erased by conventional scholarship on the Modern Middle East, with a specialty in the social and cultural history of peasants, merchants, artisans, and women who lived in the provincial regions of the Arab East during the period of Ottoman rule. He is the author numerous publications including Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900 (University of California Press, 1995), Family History in the Middle East: Household, Property, and Gender (editor) (SUNY Press, 2003. Academic Freedom After September 11 (editor) (Zone Books/MIT Press, 2006). His forthcoming book is entitled: The Righteous Beneficiaries: A Social History of Family Life in Ottoman Syria, 1660-1860.

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