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AMECYS Friday Digital Author SeriesDylan Baun on Winning Lebanon: Youth Politics, Populism, and the Production of Sectarian Violence, 1920-1958Dylan Baun, assistant professor of history at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, discusses his recently published Winning Lebanon: Youth Politics, Populism, and the Production of Sectarian Violence, 1920-1958 (Cambridge University Press, 2021) with Joseph Leidy. He describes how he came to be interested in interwar "youth popular organizations" and how youth and young people have been at the heart of the contested politics of Lebanon's twentieth century.2021-05-211h 03
AMECYS Friday Digital Author SeriesManata Hashemi on Coming of Age in Iran: Poverty and the Struggle for DignityManata Hashemi, Farzaneh Family Assistant Professor of Iranian Studies at the University of Oklahoma, discusses her latest book, Coming of Age in Iran: Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity (New York University Press, 2020) with Nazan Maksudyan.2021-04-301h 22
AMECYS Friday Digital Author SeriesYael Warshel on Experiencing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Children, Peace Communication and SocializationYael Warshel, Assistant Professor of Telecommunications and Media Industries at Pennsylvania State University, discusses her latest book, Experiencing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Children, Peace Communication and Socialization (Cambridge University Press, 2021), with Tory Brykalski.2021-04-161h 38
AMECYS Friday Digital Author SeriesMajid Hannoum on Living Tangier: Migration, Race, and Illegality In a Moroccan CityProf. Heidi Morrison speaks with Prof. Majid Hannoum, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kansas, about his latest book Living Tangier: Migration, Race, and Illegality in a Moroccan City (University of Pennsylvania, 2019). They spoke about Hannoum's personal journey in writing this book as well as his findings on youth migration flows between African and Europe, looking specifically at the impact of global capitalism, the Arab Spring, and police violence.2021-03-261h 21
AMECYS Friday Digital Author SeriesSara Pursley on Familiar Futures: Time, Selfhood, and Sovereignty in IraqSara Pursley, Assistant Professor of Middle East and Islamic Studies at New York University discusses her latest book, Familiar Futures: Time, Selfhood, and Sovereignty in Iraq (Stanford University Press, 2019), with Tory Brykalski. 2021-02-261h 13
CCYSC AwaazEp. 11 Exploring Childhoods in the Middle East and South AsiaIn the eleventh episode of CCYSC Awaaz, Dr. Chiara Diana and Dr. Hia Sen discuss their research interests and examine childhood studies from the Middle East and South Asia.Dr. Chiara Diana's current research interests include childhood and youth, civil society, education, political socialization, and memory of the 2010-2011 revolution in Tunisia and in Egypt. She is currently project manager of the artistic project Mémoires intimes d’une révolution (with the photographer Hugo Albignac) and founder member of the Association of Middle East Children’s and Youth Studies (AMECYS).D...2020-11-2254 min
CCYSC AwaazEp. 06 Histories of Childhood in the Middle East and BeyondTune into the 6th episode of the CCYSC AWAAZ with Dr. Heidi Morrison and Dr. Divya Kannan as they discuss Dr. Morrison's research on the history of childhood in the Middle East and the evolution of the field of the history of childhood and future directions of research.Dr. Heidi Morrison is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and is founding president of the Association for Middle East Children and Youth Studies (AMECYS). She is visiting senior Research Fellow at Tampere University's Center for Excellence in the History of Experience. She is author...2020-09-1353 min
AMECYS Friday Digital Author SeriesSuad Joseph on edited volume Arab Family Studies: Critical ReviewsSuad Joseph on edited volume Arab Family Studies: Critical Reviews
(Syracuse University Press, 2018). Interview given May 22 by Tory Brykalski.2020-05-221h 28
AMECYS Friday Digital Author SeriesNadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian on book Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of UnchildingNadera Shalhoub-Kevorkianon book Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Interview given May 1 by Heidi Morrison.2020-05-011h 24
AMECYS Friday Digital Author SeriesChiara Diana on Legitimizing child martyrdom in Egypt?Chiara Diana on article “Legitimizing child martyrdom? The Emergence of a new political subjectivity in revolutionary Egypt” (Mediterranean Politics, 2019). Interview given March 27 by Dylan Baun.
2020-03-2753 min
AMECYS Friday Digital Author SeriesNazan Maksudyan on her book Ottoman Children and Youth during World War INazan Maksudyan on book Ottoman Children and Youth during World War I (Syracuse University Press, 2019). Interview given February 28 by Dylan Baun.2020-02-2855 min
Ottoman History PodcastHistories of Childhood and Youth in the Middle EastE 402 | Does everybody have a childhood? What kinds of childhood experiences have defined the modern Middle East? In this episode, three scholars discuss the methodological excitements and challenges of studying the history of childhood and youth in the modern Middle East. They discuss the roles of institutions like the army, the medical mission, and the school; the rise of state and colonial power; and the emergence of youth politics, all with an eye to history's younger actors and witnesses. Throughout, they consider how using age as a category of analysis might change the ways we understand the past and the...2019-02-1938 min