A new non-profit is selling vintage-style t-shirts to raise money for scholarship funds for Iraqis:
The shirts are pretty cool.
More info from the site:
All proceeds raised from this shirt campaign will go to the Rally for Iraq Scholarship Fund. This fund was started in 2008 for Iraqi students pursuing higher education at any institution. Funds will go to tuition money or toward defraying the cost of living expenses. After the media’s interest wanes, and the inevitable crippling effects of complacency begin to impact mass attitude toward Iraq, there will be many of us who will not let Iraq slide into the background. There are many who have internalized a people’s struggle and will always want to help. These shirts will help us draw attention to this cause.
Please note: UME has no direct affiliation with this initiative.
UME President and Founder, Dr. Hala Taweel, will be among the panelists at an upcoming conference hosted by Roger Williams University
Intellectual Freedom in the Middle East: Perspectives & Opportunities
The Conference will bring together an impressive group of academics,
practitioners, thought leaders and those interested in
the region for an important discussion on the state of
intellectual freedom, civil discourse and expression of ideas in the Middle East.
Colloquium topics will include:
- speaking the truth: contextual or absolute
- the marketplace of ideas: mass media and identity
- writers and scholars at risk: personal accounts
- the future: freedom of expression in a global community
April 16-17
Register online at http://middleeast.rwu.edu
We are pleased to announce an upcoming event at Boston College organized by some of our volunteer interns…
[note: this is not a UME event]
Dr. Joseph Massad on “Semitism and the Palestinians”
When? Thursday, April 3rd at 4:30pm
Where? Gasson Hall, Rm. 305, Boston College, Chestnut Hill Campus
Joseph Massad, Associate Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University, will speak on “Semitism and the Palestinians”. He is the author of Colonial Effects: The Making of National Identity in Jordan, The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians, and, most recently, Desiring Arabs. Dr. Massad’s PhD dissertation was awarded the Middle East Studies Association Malcolm Kerr Dissertation Award in 1998. He has done work on Palestinian, Israeli, and Jordanian nationalism.
This event is being sponsored by: Arab Students Association, Muslim Students Association, Sociology Dept, Fine Arts Dept, Global Justice Project, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Students Association, MEIS Minor
