Meet Rayan, our student spotlight from the class of 2028! At the Kevorkian Center, Rayan is pursuing the Advanced Arabic concentration while exploring questions of memory, diaspora, cultural change, and political life across the modern Middle East. Welcome, Rayan!

Did you miss our Oct. 8 event on Reading Across Borders and Worlds: Global and Comparative Perspectives on Modern Persian Literature with @amir-moosavi.bsky.social, Atefeh Akbari, and moderator @sinanantoon.bsky.social? Watch the event recording on our YouTube Channel! ▶️ buff.ly/lpajCxk

“Thinking Outside the Box” is now on view at the Kevorkian Center! Exploring locally sourced solutions for preserving photo collections in Lebanon, it accompanies our Oct. 14 webinar on Boxes, Bunkers, and Preservation in Times of Precarity. 🧵

Mark your calendars for the book talk, Demographic Anxieties: Bodies, Borders, and Reproductive Injustice in Palestine/Israel, with author Gala Rexer! 📆 Friday, Nov. 13 | 12:30 PM 🎤 Gala Rexer (@galarexer.bsky.social), Weeam Hammoudeh & Andrew Ross 📍20 Cooper Square, 4th Fl 🎟️ buff.ly/YMfcqeM

Register now for our next professional development session, Teaching Pathways: Turning Your MA into a K-12 Career! 📆 Nov. 11 | 3:30-4:30 PM 🎤 Sneha Bolisetty (NYC DoE) & Tyson Patros (@nyuniversity.bsky.social) 📍 Kevorkian Center | 255 Sullivan St. 🎟️ Open to NYU community 🖇️ buff.ly/EVgJQbM

Thank you to all who attended this engaging event, “Reading Across Borders and Worlds: Global and Comparative Perspectives on Modern Persian Literature” on October 8, 2026. A special thank you to our speakers @amir-moosavi.bsky.social, Atefeh Akbari & moderator @sinanantoon.bsky.social

TODAY at 5:30 PM! RSVP here: buff.ly/hSFfWYi

NYU's Kevorkian Center@nyukevo.bsky.social · last mo.

Join Iranian Studies Initiative for a panel on "Reading Across Borders & Worlds: Global & Comparative Perspectives on Modern Persian Literature." 📆 Oct. 8 | 5:30 PM 📍 Kevorkian Center & on Zoom 🎤 @amir-moosavi.bsky.social, Atefeh Akbari, @sinanantoon.bsky.social 🎟️ RSVP: buff.ly/hSFfWYi

Join us for an AI & Immigration Policy Virtual Explainer on AI-powered surveillance, civil liberties & First Amendment free speech! 📆 Wed, Oct. 14 | 12:00 PM – 12:15 PM 🎤 @carriedecell.bsky.social & @adambcox.bsky.social 🎟️ Open to the public w/ RSVP 🖇️ buff.ly/S3fNpqr

Reminder! Register for next week's webinar in the Archives in Dialogue series: Boxes, Bunkers, and Preservation in Times of Precarity on [10/14] at 12 PM EDT! buff.ly/XqjYKPDhttps...

NYU's Kevorkian Center@nyukevo.bsky.social · last mo.

Don't miss out on the fourth webinar of the Archives in Dialogue series titled "Boxes, Bunkers, and Preservation in Times of Precarity." 📆 Oct 14, 2026 | 12 PM 🎤 Nadine Panayot, Rachelle Tabet, Nadi Abusaada, Nora Kennedy 📍 Zoom 🎟️ Open to the public with registration 🖇️ buff.ly/XqjYKPD

Meet Tamara Ashkar, our student spotlight from the class of 2028! At the Kevorkian Center, Tamara is exploring questions about state formation, migration patterns, citizenship rights, and collective identity in the modern Middle East. Welcome, Tamara!

Join us for a panel discussion, From Yafa to Gaza: Tracing Displacement, Envisioning Return, co-organized by Zochrot! 📆 Thu, Oct. 13 | 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM 🎤 Maya Yavin, Haya Abu Warda & Jamil Dakwar 📍 Kevorkian Center | 255 Sullivan St 🎟️ Open to the public w/ RSVP 🖇️ buff.ly/ZO6I92c

Join us for a film screening of "Frontiers of Dreams & Fears" & panel discussion on how reclaiming Palestinian agency in stories can shift policy. 📆 Thu, Oct. 15 | 5:30 PM – 8 PM 🎤 Inès Abdel Razek & Nour Chamoun 📍 Kevorkian Center | 255 Sullivan St 🎟️ Open to the public w/ RSVP 🖇️ buff.ly/ZO6I92c

Congrats to our 1st year GLOJO-Near East student, Yezen Saadah, for interning w/ @zeteo.com for Fall 2026. He fact-checks essays by regular contributors, provides background research for long-form interviews & podcasts, and works on the weekly column, "This Week in Palestine." Well done, Yezen!

***POSTPONED*** Stay tuned for updates on when and where!

NYU's Kevorkian Center@nyukevo.bsky.social · 4w ago

Come and watch “What is Recorded and What is Erased,” a film program by @MaryamTafakory. 📆 Oct. 14 | 7 PM 🎤 @tafakory.bsky.social (@ox.ac.uk) 📍 36 E 8th St 🎟️ Open to public w/ RSVP: buff.ly/PQRNRfm

Don't miss the NYU Migration Network Annual Conference next Wed, Oct. 7! Open to the public w/ registration: buff.ly/F3170kc

NYU's Kevorkian Center@nyukevo.bsky.social · 4w ago

Register now for the 2026 NYU Migration Network Annual Conference! 📆 October 7, 2026 | 9:30 AM - 5 PM 🎤 Welcome address: Clay Shirky & Natasha Iskander (NYU). Speakers' list on our website. 📍 105 East 17th Street, New York, NY 10003 🎟️ Open to public w/ registration 🖇️ buff.ly/F3170kc

Applications for the Near Eastern Studies MA are now open! Join our virtual open houses on Oct. 29 and Dec. 3 with Assistant Director Fidele Harfouche, Comms & Program Admin Dounya Alami-Nassif, and Director of Grad Studies & Clinical Associate Jared McCormick. 🖇️ Registration: buff.ly/NNDnNon

REMINDER: Register for the next webinar in the Archives in Dialogue series: Boxes, Bunkers, and Preservation in Times of Precarity on [10/14] at 12 PM EDT! buff.ly/XqjYKPD

NYU's Kevorkian Center@nyukevo.bsky.social · last mo.

Don't miss out on the fourth webinar of the Archives in Dialogue series titled "Boxes, Bunkers, and Preservation in Times of Precarity." 📆 Oct 14, 2026 | 12 PM 🎤 Nadine Panayot, Rachelle Tabet, Nadi Abusaada, Nora Kennedy 📍 Zoom 🎟️ Open to the public with registration 🖇️ buff.ly/XqjYKPD

Meet Abbie Bowden, our student spotlight from the class of 2028! During her time at the Kevorkian Center, she is interested in exploring the flow of knowledge across the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages, hoping to bridge her knowledge of Medieval French with Classical Arabic. Welcome, Abbie!

Have you registered yet for ISI's next event on Thu, Oct. 8 at 5:30 PM? Save your spot: buff.ly/hSFfWYi

NYU's Kevorkian Center@nyukevo.bsky.social · last mo.

Join Iranian Studies Initiative for a panel on "Reading Across Borders & Worlds: Global & Comparative Perspectives on Modern Persian Literature." 📆 Oct. 8 | 5:30 PM 📍 Kevorkian Center & on Zoom 🎤 @amir-moosavi.bsky.social, Atefeh Akbari, @sinanantoon.bsky.social 🎟️ RSVP: buff.ly/hSFfWYi

Thank you to all who participated in and attended this engaging book talk, “Cultural Co-Resistance in Palestine/Israel: Presented by Hana Morgenstern in Conversation with Ammiel Alcalay," yesterday September 24, 2026.

Today [9.25.26] at 12:30 PM (EDT)! buff.ly/IL7FQXy

NYU's Kevorkian Center@nyukevo.bsky.social · 4w ago

Don't miss out on NYU's CRACS Co-Lab Speakers Series event, "The Dialectics of Infrastructural Power" with Burçe Çelik. 📆 Sept. 25 | 12:30 PM - 2 PM 🎤 Burçe Çelik (Loughborough University London) 📍 196 Mercer St, Fl 8, Conference Room 🎟️ Open to public w/ RSVP 🖇️ buff.ly/IL7FQXy

Check out Combat Breathing, starting October 1st! Combat Breathing is a multi-site platform, spanning film and video screenings, critical discussions, and focused study sessions that will take place throughout October. 📆 Oct 1-31 | 6:30 PM-8:15 PM 🖇️ See the schedule & for tickets: buff.ly/mVdQBF6

Today [9.24.26] at 5:30 PM (EDT)! buff.ly/tdWutHT

NYU's Kevorkian Center@nyukevo.bsky.social · last mo.

Join us for a timely and important conversation on Cultural Co-Resistance in Palestine/Israel! 📆 Sept. 24, 2026 | 5:30PM – 7:30PM 🎤 Ammiel Alcalay and Hana Morgenstern 📍 Kevorkian Center: 255 Sullivan St 🖇️ RSVP: buff.ly/tdWutHT

Did you know the New York Kurdish Festival (NYKFF) will celebrate its landmark 10th edition this year? And we're a proud co-sponsor! 📆 September 29 - October 4, 2026 🎤 Schedule on the NYKFF website 📍 Village East by Angelika 🎟️ Open to the public 🖇️ buff.ly/VRywvdZ

REMINDER: Mark your calendar for NYU Migration Network's AI & Immigration Policy 2026 Conference [10/7] from 9:30 AM - 5 PM! buff.ly/F3170kc

NYU's Kevorkian Center@nyukevo.bsky.social · 4w ago

Register now for the 2026 NYU Migration Network Annual Conference! 📆 October 7, 2026 | 9:30 AM - 5 PM 🎤 Welcome address: Clay Shirky & Natasha Iskander (NYU). Speakers' list on our website. 📍 105 East 17th Street, New York, NY 10003 🎟️ Open to public w/ registration 🖇️ buff.ly/F3170kc

Meet Sobh Saeed Rid, our student spotlight from the class of 2028 💫 As a Falak Sufi fellow, she is interested in exploring questions of gender, language politics and cultural identity across the Near East and South Asia through both scholarly research and narrative journalism. Welcome, Sobh!

REMINDER: Don't miss "The Dialectics of Infrastructural Power" with Burçe Çelik this week [9/25] at 12:30 PM! buff.ly/IL7FQXy

NYU's Kevorkian Center@nyukevo.bsky.social · 4w ago

Don't miss out on NYU's CRACS Co-Lab Speakers Series event, "The Dialectics of Infrastructural Power" with Burçe Çelik. 📆 Sept. 25 | 12:30 PM - 2 PM 🎤 Burçe Çelik (Loughborough University London) 📍 196 Mercer St, Fl 8, Conference Room 🎟️ Open to public w/ RSVP 🖇️ buff.ly/IL7FQXy

Join us this week for the event "Cultural Co-Resistance in Palestine/Israel: Presented by Hana Morgenstern in Conversation with Ammiel Alcalay" at 5:30 PM in the Kevorkian Center! buff.ly/tdWutHT

NYU's Kevorkian Center@nyukevo.bsky.social · last mo.

Join us for a timely and important conversation on Cultural Co-Resistance in Palestine/Israel! 📆 Sept. 24, 2026 | 5:30PM – 7:30PM 🎤 Ammiel Alcalay and Hana Morgenstern 📍 Kevorkian Center: 255 Sullivan St 🖇️ RSVP: buff.ly/tdWutHT

Don't miss out on NYU's CRACS Co-Lab Speakers Series event, "The Dialectics of Infrastructural Power" with Burçe Çelik. 📆 Sept. 25 | 12:30 PM - 2 PM 🎤 Burçe Çelik (Loughborough University London) 📍 196 Mercer St, Fl 8, Conference Room 🎟️ Open to public w/ RSVP 🖇️ buff.ly/IL7FQXy

Come and watch “What is Recorded and What is Erased,” a film program by @MaryamTafakory. 📆 Oct. 14 | 7 PM 🎤 @tafakory.bsky.social (@ox.ac.uk) 📍 36 E 8th St 🎟️ Open to public w/ RSVP: buff.ly/PQRNRfm