🚨Emergency Webinar | The War on Iran After the Gaza Genocide: A Regional Analysis🚨
🗓️ Monday, March 09, 2026
⏰ 9AM PT
🔗 bit.ly/BerkeleyWebinar
📣 Open to the public
Featuring contributions from Minoo Moallem, Abdel Razzaq Takriti, Karim Makdisi, Maryam Al Kuwari, & moderated by @makdisi.bsky.social
THURSDAY | "Sumud Behind Bars: Palestinian Women and the Politics of Everyday Resistance" ft. Dr. Samah Saleh
🗓️ 03/05/26
⏰ 2:30-4PM
📍 340 Stephens Hall, CMES UC Berkeley
🔗https://forms.gle/pfTuaJHZDZQcGxc98
This in-person and public event is cosponsored by CMES, GWS, and GenEq at UC Berkeley
MARCH 12 | "Our Oracle Ruin: Reading from Gaza's Book of Genocide" ft @sinanantoon.bsky.social & #HudaFakhreddine
🗓️03/12/26
⏰5PM
📍Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall, UCB
🔗https://forms.gle/KprXtzQksPjeXNBq9
This #Rhetoric colloquium is cosponsored by Departments of English, Rhetoric, & PAS Program
02/10 | "Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, & the Syrian American Working Class" featuring Dr @sfahrenthold.bsky.social!
🗓️ Monday 02/10/26
⏰ 5PM
📍 370 Dwinelle Hall (Level F/G)
🔗 forms.gle/vrtuMSP2hHmac2…
Cosponsors CMES & Department of History
This in person event is free & open to public
02/02: Race & the Question of Palestine book talk with co-editor #LanaTatour in convo with #SameraEsmeir!
🗓️Monday 02/02/26
⏰5PM
📍370 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
🔗https://forms.gle/y6oBn4ikVMpb2pDC6
📚Available for sale at event
Cosponsors: History & GRC
This in person event is free & open to public
1/23: "On the Necessity for Psychic Militancy" featuring Dr. #LaraSheehi (Research Fellow, ISHS, University of South Africa)
🗓️Friday, January 23, 2026
⏱️1:30 PM
📍3335 Dwinelle Hall (Level C),
University of California Berkeley
🔗Register forms.gle/vc97dM4dwH8A...
This event is free & open to public
Event flyer with Tareq Baconi
Join us today for our final event of the semester as we host Tareq Baconi for a book discussion of “Fire in Every Direction: A Memoir”
🗓️: 11/19/15
⏰: 5PM
📍: 3335 Dwinelle (Level C), UCB
📚: Copies available for purchase
🔗: forms.gle/9BhnFr3W8io5...
Cosponsors: CMES and GWS
Flyer of “From Apartheid to Democracy” book talk at UC Berkeley featuring co-author Sarah Leah Whitson in conversation with Prof. Wadie Said
11/13: “From Apartheid to Democracy” book talk feat. Sarah Leah Whitson in convo with Prof Wadie Said!
🗓️ 11/13/25
⏰ 4:00-5:30PM
📍 297 Simon Hall UC Berkeley Law School
🔗 events.berkeley.edu/pasprogram/e...
Cosponsors: Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Henderson Center, & Global Democracy Commons
NOV 04: “Framing Genocide: Western Media and Political Discourse in Gaza” presented by Dr. #AssalRad
🗓️ Tuesday, November 04, 2025
⏰ 5:00 - 6:30 PM
📍 3335 Dwinelle Hall (Level C),
UC Berkeley
🔗 events.berkeley.edu/pasprogram/eve…
Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Grateful to all those in attendance for our inaugural New Books in Palestinian Studies series featuring a discussion of “Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine & India at the Dawn of Decolonization” by Dr. @esmat.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social
10/27: Book launch discussion of "Parting Gifts of Empire" by Dr. @esmat.bsky.social!
🗓️ MON 10/27/25
⏰ 5-6:30 PM
📍 3335 Dwinelle (Level C) UC Berkeley
📚 Copies will be available 4 purchase
This free & inperson event is Cosponsored by: History, CMES, & ISAS UCB
Register: forms.gle/cXjFsJ8Lcg1n...
Structural racism — or the way systems like housing, education, employment and justice create racial disparities without overtly racist actors — is a concept that is often “deeply misunderstood,” according to Stephen Menendian at @obi-belonging.bsky.social. news.berkeley.edu/2025/08/14/w...
A full house at @palstudiesucb.bsky.social to hear Dr. Sherene Seikaly’s timely talk, “#Palestine is Here, Palestine is Everywhere.” We are grateful to our community members for braving the rain to attend this lecture!
10/13: "Palestine is Shrinking, Palestine is Everywhere" ft. Dr. Sherene Seikaly (UCSB)!
🗓️: Monday, October 13, 2025
⏰: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
📍: 3335 Dwinelle Hall (Level C)
UC Berkeley
Event co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
Register: forms.gle/MvbdJqEh9RA2...
