Checkpoint: 80 minutes

Film - Series: Interdisciplinary Lecture Series: Arab Film Festival | May 1 | 7 p.m. | International House, Chevron Auditorium

Sponsor: Center for Middle Eastern Studies

This film richly documents the power dynamics at play at the Israeli checkpoints that Palestinians must pass through in the course of their daily lives, and the destructive impact of the occupation on both societies. These checkpoints, essentially the first points of contact between the two people, have an enormous significance in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. From 2001-2003, Director Yoav...   More >

Islamic Publishing Houses in the Course of Transformation – The Role of Translation

Lecture: Interdisciplinary Lecture Series | May 3 | 5 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall

Speaker/Performer: Professor Elif Daldeniz, Department of Translation Studies, Okan University, Istanbul, Turkey

Sponsor: Center for Middle Eastern Studies

In this lecture, Prof. Daldeniz will discuss changing strategies of translation of Western Classics by an important (now mainstream) Islamic publishing house in Turkey.

Norman and Nina de Garis Davies

Lecture: ARCE Lecture Series | May 13 | 1:30 p.m. | 110 Barrows Hall

Speaker: Dr. Nigel Strudwick, The British Museum

Sponsor: American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California Chapter