In this unprecedented time, we are committed to staying connected and to bringing you the world-class knowledge and programming you have come to expect and enjoy from us.
We have shifted our focus to online programming, where we can continue to engage you with regional and Columbia-wide expertise.
Stay safe, follow best practices to keep healthy, and we can’t wait to see you in person, once we are able to gather again.
International Legal Dialogue—Middle East North Africa
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
8:30 AM - 6:30 PM
The Holy Land and the (un)Holy - A Talk by Gregory Khalil
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Walter Benjamin, and other Illegal Migrants - A Talk by Robert Young
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Film screening and discussion of "Sanctity" with Ahd Kamel, Actress and Filmmaker from Saudi Arabia
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Is the American Century Over? - A Talk by Joseph Nye
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
The New Era of Extreme Bionics - A Talk by Hugh Herr
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in a Modern World - A Talk by Wade Davis
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Talk and book launch of "Return: A Palestinian Memoir" with Ghada Karmi
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
The Search for a Mideast Solution - A discussion between Professor Safwan Masri and Nicolas Pelham, moderated by Nicholas Lemann
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Book Debate: Religious Pluralism in the Middle East - The Relic of a Bygone Era or a Foundation for the Region's Recovery?
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Poetry of the Streets - A Talk by Tamim Al Barghouti
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Strengthening Refugee Access, Equity and Inclusion: Developing a New Framework
Columbia University
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
The Future of Historic Monuments, Museums, and Sites Destroyed by ISIS: A Proposed Course of Action
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
حازم الأمين
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Film Screenings: On the Margins of American Cinema with Richard Pena - July 17-20
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Global Nursing and Midwifery Summit in Amman, Jordan Brings Together Leaders to Build and Sustain Cross-Regional Networks
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
9:00 AM - 2:30 AM
Human Rights Treaty Body Reform Process: Towards a Stronger Human Rights Protection Regime (2017)
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Muslim Women and the "Right to Choose Freely" - Lila Abu-Lughod
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Arabia to Antarctica: An Unlikely Story about Sustainable Energy - Malek Al-Chalabi
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Soraya Salti Youth for Youth Series: Developing Emotional Intelligence for Greater Social Impact with Nadine El Asmar
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Janet Abu-Lughod Library Exhibition at Studio-X Amman - on display until October 9
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
When Qatar Thinks Big, the GCC Falls into Disarray with Hilal Khashan
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Safwan M. Masri presents "Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly" at the Shoman Foundation - October 23, 2017 at 6:30-8:00 pm
Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
One Hundred Years of the Balfour Declaration - A Talk by Ghada Karmi
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
A Virtual Lecture: Redefining Borders - Poetry as Means of Resilience and Tolerance with Nathalie Handal
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Pluralism in Emergenc(i)es: Movement, Space, and Religious Difference
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
9:45 AM - 4:00 PM
Does the Middle East Need a New Honest Broker? A Talk by French Ambassador David Bertolotti
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
From Destruction to Documentation: A Talk by Sheila Canby, The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Friday, February 9
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Improving Refugee Access to Resettlement and Complementary Pathways
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
An Update from War-torn Yemen: A Talk by Farea Al-Muslimi - Wednesday April 4, 2018
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
The War in Yemen: Consequences of the Crisis and Prospects for Peace
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Fostering Entrepreneurship in Engineering Education in Tunisia program: Columbia Venture Competition
Columbia University, New York
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
A Strategic Shift to Meet the Needs of all Vulnerable Children in Jordan - A Talk by Robert Jenkins
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
The Trump Administration and Jerusalem: A Talk by Rashid Khalidi
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
A Model International Mobility Convention: Rights and Governance for Migrants and Refugees - A Talk by Michael Doyle
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
The American Construction of Terrorism: A Legal View - A Talk by Wadie Said
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
The Two Futures of the Arab World: A Talk by Tarek Osman
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Can our Heritage be the Foundation for our Future? A Talk by Manvendra Singh Shekhawat
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Social Entrepreneurship Workshop for High School Students
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
(Ground Truth Exhibition) From Res Nullius to Terra Nullius: Revisiting Indigenous Histories, Legal Systems, and Land Rights in the Naqab
Italian Academy, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Civil War, Economic Governance, & State Reconstruction in the Arab Middle East
SIPA Building, 420 W 118th St., Room 1512, New York, NY 10027
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Black-Palestinian Solidarity 1968/2018
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall, 1172 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY, 10027 United States
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
The End of Rentierism in the Arab World
SIPA Building, 420 W 118th St., Room 1512, New York, NY 10027
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Contemporary Amman and the Right to the City Conference - November 3-5, 2018
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
"Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo": Safwan Masri in conversation with Seth Anziska
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Peasant Architecture in Palestine: Space, Kinship and Gender - Safwan Masri in conversation with Suad Amiry
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Are the Inherent Contradictions of an Israeli Anti-colonialist Reconcilable?
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Narratives Of The Great War And The Remaking Of The New Middle East (1914-1918)
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
The Nation State Law: Implications for the Rights of Non-Jewish Minorities - Safwan Masri in conversation with Aida Touma-Sliman
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Illness and Urban Displacement: Addressing the Needs of Refugees with Non-communicable Diseases
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
"The Brave Knowledge World": A Talk by Dr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
The Soraya Salti Youth for Youth Series: Workshop on Design Thinking for Ideation - Jessica Hanna
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Populism and the Democratization of Injustice - A keynote lecture by Jon B Alterman
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Untangling Popular Power: Rhetoric, Faith, and Social Order in the Middle East
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sykes-Picot and Balfour Revisited: Looking Beyond the Maps
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Joint Presentation with Columbia, Penn and Yale in Amman
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Forced Migration to Jordan: A Humanitarian Response
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
The (R)evolution of Arab Queer Cinema: Queer Representation in Film Pre- and Post-Arab Uprisings
Columbia University, Katharina Screening Room, Lenfest Center for the Arts
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Writing/Walking Palestine: Raja Shehadeh charts his city, Ramallah, and Penny Johnson explores our common lives and histories with animals
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Women ASPIRE | Understanding and Addressing Physical Health and Mental Health Concerns of Syrian Refugee Women in Jordan
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
#MeToo and Global Change: Best Practices for Addressing Sexual Harassment and Misconduct - A talk by Suzanne Goldberg
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A keynote lecture by Rashid Khalidi
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
A Century of Palestinian Nationalism: Modes of Political Organization and Representation since 1919
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Human Rights in Conflict: A Conversation with Omar Shakir
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Archaeological Archives of the French Mandate Period and the Creation of the "Service des Antiquités" and Museums in Syria
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Report Launch and Expert Discussion: A Medium-Term Approach towards Self-Reliance and Resilience of Syrian Refugees and Host Communities in Jordan
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Religion, State, and Society in Lebanon: Consociational Curse or Blessing? A talk by Mark Farha
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
What is Bioethics, and Why is it Important Today? A talk by Robert Klitzman
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Adieu Middle East: The Consequences of American Abdication - A talk by Roger Cohen
Columbia Global Centers | Amman
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Prevention Measures and Management of COVID-19 in Refugee Settings: Global and Local Perspectives
Zoom Webinar
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Global Collaboratory Seminar - The Future of Globalization: Consequences of the Pandemic on Supply Chains
New York (Online Webinar)
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Janet Abu-Lughod Library Lecture by Deepak Unnikrishnan
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Black Lives Matter: From Minneapolis to Paris to Rio de Janeiro
New York (Online Webinar)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Pride without Prejudice: The Moral Arc of LGBTQ+ Law & Justice
New York (Online Webinar)
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Edtech and its Roadmap to New Realities
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Away from Chaos: The Middle East and the Challenge to the West (Columbia University Press Book Series)
New York (Online Webinar)
12:00 PM
The Digital Kalīla wa-Dimna: Editing an Unruly Classic
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus
New York (Online Webinar)
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Global Collaboratory Seminar - The Pandemic: Self, Other, and the World Beyond Us
New York (Online Webinar)
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
The Chile Pepper in China: A Cultural Biography (Columbia University Press Book Series)
New York (Online Webinar)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
The Adaptations and Translations of Kalīla wa-Dimna
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
The Arabic Versions of Kalīla wa-Dimna
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Global Collaboratory Seminar - The U.S. Elections and What Comes Next
Zoom Webinar
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Transcending borders: Lessons from a global pandemic
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
The Food Security Challenge
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Free Speech Norms in the 21st Century: Regardless of Frontiers or Guarded by Borders?
Online
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
What Would Nature Do?
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM