Duke Islamic Studies Center, Duke University. RT not necessarily endorsement.
Durham, NC
Joined June 2009
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Meet Timur Kuran, a distinguished faculty member at DISC and DUMESC, as well as Professor of Economics and Political Science. 📘
Watch to explore the connections between history, law, and modern political dynamics in the region!
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In case you missed it, head over to our YouTube Channel to check out Beeta Baghoolizadeh discuss her recently published book “The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran” (March 2024, Duke University Press).
youtu.be/-v97xzmvHWQ?si=l998…
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Join us for the launch of Beeta Baghoolizadeh's book "The Color Black. Enslavement and Erasure in Iran"
Beeta Baghoolizadeh will discuss the book with Khwezi Mkhize and Paniz Musawi Natanzi. It will be followed by a reception and book signing.
The event will be hybrid.
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Ramadan Mubarak to all who are observing. In our latest blog post, CHM curator Rebekah Coffman writes about the significance of #Ramadan & shares a brief history of Chicago’s Muslim communities. ow.ly/xYTf50Np73b
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✨Ramadan Mubarak!✨ The CML will pray Isha'a and Taraweeh TONIGHT at 9:30pm at the CML (Few GG). Free visitor parking is available with an "After-Hours" pass.
Tomorrow (Thursday, 3/23) starts the CML's full Ramadan programming. Go to bit.ly/cmlramadan2023 to learn more.
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The “care economy” refers to the provision of services like childcare, elder care and health care - paid and unpaid. Research by Jocelyn Olcott, Jennifer Nash, James Chappel and Jehanne Gheith asks how we value this vital care, and why it falls to women: duke.is/wzdw3
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Marc Zvi Brettler and Mohsen Kadivar of @DukeReligion share perspectives from Judaism and Islam, respectively, on the Church of England reconsidering the use of masculine language to refer to God. wsj.com/articles/must-god-ha…
@DukeNews @DukeCJS @IslamicAtDuke @BlDvlHumanities
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Happy #PiDay! Explore what the day celebrates and the math (and many digits) behind 3.14 with Duke mathematicians Ingrid Daubechies, Johnathan Mattingly, Paul Aspinwall, Heekyoung Hahn and Hubert Bray.
@DukeResearch @JCMattingly
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If you are @DukeU @IslamicAtDuke come join to discuss #Islam #MuslimHealth #IslamicBioethics #Health and a whole lot more that I don't know yet since the talk is not penned..;)
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ICYMI: This round-up of new books by Duke faculty includes authors from Cultural Anthropology, @Duke_English, Literature, #DukeTheaterStudies, Philosophy, @DukeGSF, Art History & Visual Studies, @DukeCompSci, and more. 📚
duke.is/7j24h
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✨ Affirming it, preserving it, and providing spaces for its continual reimagination.✨
@DrSuad, founder of @SapeloSquare, shares how Sapelo centers Black Muslim culture production.
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Duke’s 2022-23 Presidential Award winners will be honored in Page Auditorium tomorrow (Feb 28). Eight individuals and five teams have earned the highest faculty and staff honor after nominations from across @DukeU and @DukeHealth.
ow.ly/PKtS50MxItF @DukeTrinity
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In this forthcoming book with @UNC_Press, Mbaye Lo and Carl Ernst write Omar Ibn Said, the author of the only known autobiography in Arabic by an enslaved person in the US, back into history. This story is going to be a game changer and I cannot wait to see it exist in the world.
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"Uncovering a tavern supports the perspective of Pittman & her team that society was not organized into just elites and enslaved people, the previous prevailing view, but included an ancient middle class." (Dr. Holly Pittman, TARII Board of Directors)
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Explore more photos documenting our new dean's first days in office: trinity.duke.edu/news/deans-…
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On Feb. 1, @DrGaryBennett began his term as dean of Trinity College. His approach to these first weeks in office? "Learn Trinity as a newcomer might...engaging with as many colleagues as possible to learn more about our work, the challenges we face, and our shared aspirations."
ALT Bennett looks toward an open room while walking down a hall in BioSci with Chief of Staff Landy Elliott and two business managers
ALT Bennett listens as Biology Business Manager Randy Smith speaks with his arms extended in the doorway of the Patek Lab - Tropical & Temperate Aquarium Facility
ALT Bennett stops for a selfie requested by four Duke students outside of Perkins Library
ALT Bennett takes notes in the foreground as, at the same conference table, Trinity leadership team members Carol King and William Johnson engage with the Theater Studies chair and business manager
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Meet Linshan Jiang the #DukeAMES postdoc in Chinese cultural studies. She's looking beyond the nation state to underscore the joint history of East Asia @DukeTrinity FMI: bit.ly/3ExnZ3V
