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Sayed Kashua, best known for his sitcom “Arab Labor,” a regular column in Haaretz, and novels like “Second Person Singular,” will appear at Yale on Thursday, Feb. 8 and Friday, Feb. 9.
Yale students and members of the wider community will have the opportunity to explore the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a different lens Feb. 8-9, when Israeli-Palestinian columnist, author,...
Pages from the Qur'an in Kufic Script
Musicians gathered in a circle, prisoners of love, a princely entourage, a Sufi dervish, gryphons and bullbuls, and a history of the world. These are just some of the diverse topics covered in the...
Alexandr Askoldov’s 1967 Soviet film Commissar
The Yale Macmillan Center, Carnegie Corporation and Films at the Whitney resumed their “Red Century: The Russian Revolution on Film” screenings this semester with a showing of Alexandr Askoldov’s...
Veronica Waweru
Veronica Waweru, a lecturer in Yale’s MacMillan Center, gave a talk at Luce Hall on Thursday on the lack of understanding among locals in Kenya about research taking place in their own communities....
A young Iranian woman waves a white headscarf in protest of her country’s compulsory hijab rule.
Nahid Siamdoust, a postdoctoral associate of Iranian studies at the MacMillan Center and the author of Soundtrack of the Revolution: The Politics of Music in Iran, wrote the following Opinion article...
General Secretary of the Christian Council of Ghana the Reverend Dr. Kwabena Opuni-Frimpong, YDS’s Lamin Sanneh, and the Reverend J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu.
In February of 2011, religious leaders from across Africa met in Accra, Ghana, to discuss their dual roles as people of faith and members of civil society. They sought to reconcile their beliefs with...
Professor Kristin Stapleton
The story of China’s last century has been one of growth, of strife, of soul-searching and transformation. Cities are both the engines and the manifestations of China’s ongoing metamorphosis,...
Yaa Oparebea Ampofo ‘16, Mentorship Coordinator for the Yale Young African Scholars program, with a group of students.
When Yale President Peter Salovey announced the Yale Africa Initiative in 2013, he inspired several Yale students from the continent to work toward achieving his goal of “bringing Africa to Yale and...
William R. Polk - veteran foreign policy consultant and author
William R. Polk, a veteran foreign policy consultant, and author, will give a series of three lectures in February on “America Confronts the Post-Imperial World” for the Henry L. Stimson Lectures...
Catherine Panter-Brick, professor of anthropology, health, and global affairs and director of the Conflict, Resilience, and Health Program at the MacMillan Center
A new study shows that a humanitarian program to improve the mental health of adolescents affected by the Syrian war has a biological benefit: For participants in the program, it decreased levels of...
Salome MC, a multi-media artist and the first woman in Iran to make hip-hop music.
“Popular Music & Society in Iran: New Directions,” a two-day symposium highlighting the social and political significance of music in Iran, will take place at the MacMillan Center on January 26-...
UK Prime Minister May and European Commission President Juncker meet for key talks on a Brexit deal.
Last Monday, as British Prime Minister Theresa May and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker were about to announce at a press conference in Brussels that the EU and UK negotiators had...