by Peter B. Mattox | Nov 24, 2025
The Shavarsh Trio – Eric LaPerna, Jeremey Zela and Leo LaZarate – perform a captivating blend of folk, art, and classical music from Armenian, Greek, Turkish, and Arabic traditions, using an array of traditional string, wind, and percussion instruments...
by Peter B. Mattox | Nov 20, 2025
In association with the 2026 Camden Conference, Today’s Middle East: Power, Politics & Players, please join PPL on December 11, where we will get to hear from Fatima Saidi on displacement, immigration, and navigating identity. Fatima’s specialty is storytelling....
by Peter B. Mattox | Nov 18, 2025
On the morning of September 11, 2001, when hijacked jetliners brought down the World Trade Center towers, attacked the Pentagon, and killed passengers and crew in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Micaela Schweitzer-Bluhm was in her first week of Arabic language training at...
by Peter B. Mattox | Nov 13, 2025
For January Readers’ Circle will discuss the book Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad. The book follows Sonia Nasir, a British-Palestinian actress who returns to Palestine after a personal crisis in London. Reconnecting with her roots and her estranged sister in Haifa,...
by Peter B. Mattox | Nov 13, 2025
The science of Islamic societies from the twelfth through sixteenth centuries was crucial for Renaissance science. Muslim scholars also greatly benefitted from knowledge coming out of Europe. In this presentation, Professor Morrison will discuss the merchants of...
