BOOK LAUNCH | Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots: an Australian Diplomat in the Arab world
Book launch
Bio: Dr Bob Bowker retired from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in 2008 after a 37 year career working mostly on the Middle East. He was posted to Saudi Arabia from 1974 to 2006, and Syria from 1979 to 1981. He was Australian ambassador to Jordan (1989-1992). He was Director of…
Defying Ethno-nationalism: Multilingualism and Creativity in Asia
Panel discussion
In the multilingual contexts of the Global South and in countries in South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, the continuous reinscription of the nation with a presumed single identity between the language and nation is fraud and problematic. Many of these nations celebrate a long tradition of rich…
The 1st Annual Workshop on the Economies of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Workshop
MENA’s economies command abundant human and natural resources, account for a large share of the world’s energy exports, and vary substantially in political stability and living standards. COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine have worsened the global economic environment with the MENA economies facing…
Immersia 2022 | CAIS Events
Arts & entertainment
Immersia Program of Events: • Ottoman miniature art workshop with Gulay Pelin, Thursday 11am-1pm, Coombs Seminar Room D • Multicultural Istanbul – author talk and food tasting, Thursday 2-4 pm, Coombs Tea Room • Language tasters – (Come and learn how to play Turkish board game : tavla), Friday…
October Majlis - Of Non-native Cultivation: The Indigenization of the Arabic language in the Nigerian Arabic Novels
Lecture
Abstract: Language as a living phenomenon, reflects its local environment. Arabic language, a non-native tongue in Nigeria, is infiltrated with several indigenous languages. This process is known as language interference. Just as the way the imperial languages have been domesticated and nativized…
BOOK LAUNCH | Nine Quarters of Jerusalem A New Biography of the Old City
Book launch
Brief: In Jerusalem, what you see and what is true are two different things. The Old City has never had “four quarters” as its maps proclaim. And beyond the crush and frenzy of its major religious sites, many of its quarters are little known to visitors, its people ignored and their stories untold…
September Majlis - An Overview of Cryptocurrencies in the Middle East and North Africa
Lecture
Abstract Since Bitcoin was introduced in 2009, different uses have been created for blockchain technology including the rise of thousands of blockchain enabled cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrency market capitalisation reached $2.9 trillion in 2021 before plummeting to $1 trillion in September…