Farouk Mustafa Memorial Friday Lecture Series

September 27, 2024 - Kamala Russell (University of Chicago)  
"Speaking of dunya: Ethics, Interaction, and the End" 

October 11, 2024 - Caterina Bori (Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna)  
"A Muslim-Christian polemical encounter? Revisiting Ibn Taymiyya’s Cypriot Letter (al-Risāla al-qubruṣiyya)" 

October 25, 2024 - Nukhet Varlik (Rutgers University–Newark)  
"New Directions to Explore Death, Disease, and Healing in Early Modern Ottoman History" 

January 24, 2025 - Narges Bajoghli (Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies)  
"Weapons Against Humanity: Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Iran and Iraq and the Unmaking of the International Community" 

January 31, 2025 - Ahmad Al-Jallad (Ohio State University) 

February 7, 2025 - Martin Stokes (King's College London) - Hassan (Husni) Haddad Memorial Lecture 

February 28, 2025 - Anny Gaul (The University of Maryland, College Park) 
"Who's in the kitchen? Knowledge and labor in 20th-century Egyptian culinary texts" 

April 4, 2025 - Levi Thompson (University of Texas) - Farouk Mustafa Memorial Lecture on Modern Arabic Literature 

May 9, 2025 - Malika Zeghal (Harvard University) 

May 16, 2025 - Andrew Peacock (University of St Andrews)