We invite you to the virtual launch of a student-written publication that illuminates diverse snapshots of Columbia University’s history and its ties with Arabs and the Arab world.
This complex relationship was explored and expanded upon for over a year, in pursuit of exchanging knowledge, addressing biases, and improving cross-cultural understanding.
Join us as our students discuss their research-informed papers that cover a time span from the 1890s until the present day, across our region and in interaction with Columbia University in the City of New York.
Click here to read the publication.
Opening remarks by Professor Safwan M. Masri, Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development at Columbia University.
Student Authors:
Lidia Helou, The Columbia(n) Gaze: Readings of the Arab World
Kevin Petersen, Overcoming Orientalism: Among Columbia University’s Earliest Arab Alumni
Emily Kohn, The Arab World on Low Steps: Columbia Campus Culture Amidst 20th Century Conflicts
Iona Tait, A Man of Multiple Selves: Edward Said and His Legacy at Columbia
Suhani Chaudhry, Feminism Across the East/West Divide: Columbia Academics as Builders of the ‘Bridge'
Alaa Qarooni, Teachers College and Education Reform in Jordan
Sophia Fulton, The Power of Proximity: How the Columbia Global Center in Amman Empowered Columbia University’s Research and Support of Syrian Refugees