The Resistance of the Jewels Against Colonial Geographies

Upon the death of her father, a Jewish man originally from Oran, Algeria, who was naturalized as a French and then Israeli citizen, Ariella Azoulay discovers in a document that her grandmother’s name was Aïcha.  In this book she interweaves two genres– autobiography...

MESAAS Graduate Student Conference 2024

The Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University is pleased to announce its annual Graduate Student Conference to be held on April 18-19 2024. This conference is a space for graduate students to present their original...

Politics of Memory

A Roundtable discussion with Fabien Théofilakis, Stefanos Geroulanos, Gil Hochberg, Mark Mazower, and Andrew Port This roundtable will explore the contemporary politics of anti-semitism in western Europe in historical perspective. Focusing on the cases of postwar...
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