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EYE ON PALESTINE. Ella Shohat: Framing the Colonial Present

dinsdag 20 maart 2012

Leading scholar Ella Habiba Shohat explores Israeli cinema as a site where national culture is produced and consolidated. The lecture, mainly based on the new edition of her book "Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation", offers a deconstructionist reading of Zionism viewing the cinema as itself participating in the 'invention' of the nation. Ella Shohat will address some of the paradoxes of this national/colonial project by unthinking the imaginary of 'East versus West'.

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Methods and Ethics in Fieldwork April-March

vrijdag 24 februari 2012



MENARG and CRG kindly invite you to the following research seminars on “Methods and Ethics in Fieldwork”. During these seminars national and international guests will be sharing their “story behind the findings” with researchers from different departments, to have a profound reflection on methodological and ethical questions in performing empirical research.

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Defending education in times of war and occupation

donderdag 23 februari 2012



Exact één jaar na het internationale seminarie ""Defending education in times of war and occupation" stellen we het verslagboek voor tijdens de boekenbeurs: MIND THE BOEK in de VOORUIT te Gent. We nodigen u uit en hopen u te ontmoeten op zaterdag 10 maart 2012 om 13.30u

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Mohammad Waked vertelt over de Egyptische Revolutie

woensdag 12 oktober 2011



MENARG nodigt Mohammed Waked uit:
donderdag 27 oktober 2011
17u30-19u30
Film Plateau Zaal
Paddenhoek 3
9000 Gent

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2011 Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association

vrijdag 7 oktober 2011



Middle East Studies Association
2011 Annual Meeting
December 1-4, 2011
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
Washington, DC

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Zemni: The Shaping of Islam and Islamophobia in Belgium (2011)

vrijdag 23 september 2011

Publication by Sami Zemni

The Shaping of Islam and Islamophobia in Belgium

in: Race & Class

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Zemni & Bogaert: Urban renewal and social development in Morocco in an age of neoliberal government (2011)

vrijdag 23 september 2011



Publicatie van Sami Zemni & Koen Bogaert (2011)

Urban renewal and social development in Morocco in an age of neoliberal government

in: Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE)

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AGORA: Tijd schrift voor sociaalruimtelijke vraagstukken

donderdag 1 december 2011



Themanummer: "Ondernemende Arabische steden & Culturele Hoofdsteden (2009-2)"

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We don’t talk to terrorists

maandag 30 mei 2011



The international terrorist lists and their consequences for conflict resolution. Seminar.

Thursday, 3rd of December 2009, 13:00-16:00
Ghent University, Academieraadzaal, Volderstraat 9, Ghent (Belgium

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Workshop KADOC

maandag 30 mei 2011

Het vergeten middenveld?
Migrantenorganisaties en hun erfgoed

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Methods and ethics in fieldwork

maandag 30 mei 2011

Middle Range Methodologies: thoughts on doing and designing research

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Islam, social movements and the question of emancipation (1)

maandag 30 mei 2011



Intellectual seeds of resistance: Radical interpretations of Islam
(Monday March 29th 2010)
The prophet and the wretched: Islam as ideology of/for the underclasses
(Monday April 26th 2010)
Islam, Imperialism and national liberation
(Monday May 3rd 2010)

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Islam, social movements and the question of emancipation

maandag 30 mei 2011



The prophet and the wretched: Islam as ideology of/for the underclasses

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