Get the Picture: Using comics in Hindi Language Teaching
Seminar
The use of images has been a long established practice in language teaching. During the last year I have been experimenting with the use of online comics as a part of teaching Hindi and found that it has had very beneficial learning outcomes. In this report on practice, I shall show how I am…
Prospects of democratisation in Tunisia
Lecture
Amna Guellali is the Researcher covering Tunisia and Algeria, Middle East and North Africa Division of Human Rights Watch. Her brief is to investigate human rights abuses in both countries. She produces detailed reports, news releases, and op-eds based on her findings and conducts local and…
US Middle East Policy under President Obama and his successor
Lecture
Distinguished Professors Cynthia P. Schneider and Amin Saikal with, Fairfax Media's chief political correspondent, Mark Kenny at an ANU public forum on US Middle East Policy under President Obama and his successor. There is a widespread view…
The Middle East: An arena of turbulent change and transition
Lecture
The 2011 “Arab Spring” defied dominant Western and theoretical assumptions that the Arab Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is incapable of achieving political change through popular uprisings. The case of Tunisia with its pro-democratic trajectory, as shaky as it may be, and the withdrawal…
Islamic Banking, Islamic Economics and Islamic Studies: An Epistemological Exploration of Disciplinary Boundaries
Lecture
It is clear and common-sensical that ‘Islamic banking’ is a sub-discipline of ‘Islamic economics’, which itself is presumably a discipline within the broader, and long-established, field of inquiry referred to, at least since the 19th-century, as ‘Islamic Studies’. In this exploratory talk, I…
Resolving crisis in the Middle East: an Iranian perspective
Lecture
In his only public address in Canberra, Iran's Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, discussed Iran's foreign policy and its role in combating terrorist groups, such as 'Islamic State' or DAESH. He is pictured here with: Ambassador, Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, HE Mr Abdolhossein…
The Gaza Freedom Flotillas: Sailboats, Lawsuits, and struggle for justice in Palestine
Lecture
Ann Wright will discuss Gaza and the 2015 Gaza Freedom Flotilla, the 2016 Women's Boat to Gaza, and the two lawsuits in US courts concerning the 2010 Gaza Flotilla. She also will address the effects of the Israeli military's attacks on Gaza in 2014 and 2009 through discussion of Dr Mads Gilbert's…