Fall 2025

• September 10, 2025 - The Fall 2025 Nijad and Zeina Fares Distinguished Lecture in Modern Arab Studies Presents “Wounds of War: How Conflict Rewrites the Boundaries of Medicine” with Dr. Omar Dewachi, 5:30 pm, Alumni Room 104, UH Hilton

Spring 2025

• April 26, 2025 - "Estevanico: The Journey of Mustafa Azemmouri" RSVP Here Saturday April 26, 10 am, Astrodome Room of Student Center South
• April 3, 2025 - 2025 Annual Paul Kardoush Memorial Endowed Lecture, "Neighbor of the Moon: Fayrouz as a National Arab Icon" (Concert and Lecture), Thursday, April 3rd, 2025
  Community Meet and Greet: 6:15 PM; Lecture and Concert: 7:00 PM, Student Center Theater
• March 3, 2025 - Gaza Genocide: Past and Present RSVP Link here: https://uh-edu-cougarnet.zoom.us/meeting/register/17K_j-UvTQ2rhxcl5X_QCw
• February 11, 2025 - Arab Brazil Ternary Orientalism and the Question of South-South Comparison
• February 7, 2025 - Palestinian Meditations in a Time of Annihilation
• February 5, 2025 - Syria: Histories and Futures

Spring 2021

• May 19, 2021 - Houston scholars explain conflict in the Middle East
• April 28, 2021 - Hosam Aboul-Ela Awarded Inaugural Arab-American Educational Foundation Dr. Burhan and Mrs. Misako Ajouz Endowed Professorship in Arab Studies
• April 20, 2021 - Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World 

2019

• December 2019 - Center for Arab Studies Director Receives National Education Award[BROKEN LINK]
• March 21, 2019 - Grassroots efforts help Houston's Arab studies programs thrive 

2015

• December 2, 2015 - Head of Arab studies program aims to shape understanding of the Middle East