The Farhat J. Ziadeh Distinguished Lecture in Arab and Islamic Studies Series

Below you will find a list of past lectures in this annual lectureship series that was established in honour of Farhat J. Ziadeh, who's contributions to the fields of Islamic law, Arabic language, and Islamic Studies are truly unparelleled. (Please note that all lecture files below are in pdf format.)

The Ziadeh fund was formally endowed in 2001 and since that time, it has allowed NELC to strengthen its educational reach and showcase the most outstanding scholarship in Arab and Islamic Studies.

Past Lectures

• 2009: 22 April; Rethinking the "Muslim World" Paradigm, presented by Shibley Telhami at the Seventh Lecture
• 2008: 6 May; Shari'a as Law and Legal System: Changing Perceptions, presented by Frank E. Vogel at the Sixth Lecture
• 2007: 3 May; - PDF NOT AVAILABLE - Making the City of Cairo through Motion, presented by Irene Bierman-McKinney, University of California, Los Angeles
• 2006: 20 April; The Novel, the Novelist, and the Lebanese Civil War, presented by Elias Khoury, Editor-in-Chief of Lebanon's Annahar Newspaper
• 2005: 19 May; Resurrecting Empire: The End of Year II of the Occupation of Iraq, presented by Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University
• 2004: 8 May; Naguib Mahfouz: A Retrospective, presented by Roger Allen, University of Pennsylvania
• 2003: - NO LECTURE HELD THIS YEAR -
• 2002: 30 April; Gibran Kahlil Gibran, Between Two Millenia, presented at the Inaugural Farhat J. Ziadeh Distinguished Lecture in Arab and Islamic Studies by Irfan Shahid, Georgetown University