Mangia con noi! Bring your lunch and chat with us! Pitt students only, all levels welcome!

Considering the war in Gaza, this seminar will explore other possibilities for regional engagement than those being pursued by the United States. The session will be led by Prof. Khaled Al Hroub who has spent the last two decades studying Hamas. As preparation for the discussion with Prof. Al Hroub, participants in the seminar will read an article available upon registration.

About the Speaker:
Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Arab Media Studies at Northwestern University in Qatar; former fellow of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, where he lectured on the history and politics of the contemporary Middle East, and was the founder and director of the Cambridge Arab Media Project between 2003 and 2012. He published numerous books and studies on Palestinian, Arab and international affairs in including Gaza Tunnels: Dying for life, dicing with death (forthcoming, 2024); Hamas: Political Thought and Practice (2000); Political Islam: Context versus Ideology (2011); and Religious Broadcasting in the Middle East (2012). In Arabic he published In Praise of Revolution (2012); The Anxious Intellectual versus the Certain Intellectual (2018); and Soft Critique of Zionism in Ruhi Khaldi’s Book “Le Sionisme” (2021). Hroub holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Cambridge.

Limited seating is available.
Last day to register: Jan 9, 2024
For more information, please contact us at europeanstudies@pitt.edu

Himalayan Health Information Session
Dr. Joseph Alter
Posvar Hall Room 3106
Thursday, January 11, 7pm-8:30pm

Learn about the Himlayan Health Global Experience program where students spend five and a half weeks during the early summer in North India to learn about the challenges of emergency medicine, public health and medical care and can choose to learn more about Yoga and Mindfulness in the Himalayas, one of the most spectacular mountain ranges on earth.

This is a hybrid event; students may attend in Posvar Hall Room 3106 or virtually on Zoom.