Saleem Shah is a civic innovator and technology leader who bridges community engagement, organizational strategy, and agile systems design. He serves as Senior Programs Manager at the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Los Angeles (CAIR-LA), where he oversees youth leadership, civil rights education, and community-based civic initiatives across Southern California.
Come learn about the diverse cultures and identities that make up the Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) region through an engaging student panel discussion, held by the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies program! Food and refreshments will be provided at this meaningful event that honors rich history, traditions, and intersectionality. Do you… Continue reading Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) Visibility Panel
This talk and screening will uplift the theory and practice of Jineology, the Kurdish Women's Liberation movement. Hamoun Dolatshahi is a Kurdish-Iranian filmmaker and founder/CEO of Zagros Film LLC, a Los Angeles-based studio focused on bold, socially driven storytelling for film and television. Born in Kermanshah, Iran, he came to the U.S. as a refugee… Continue reading Jineology The Theory and Practice of Kurdish Womens Liberation
REBEL POET? OR REVOLUTIONARY MILITANT? This lecture will resituate Bangladesh's national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam through Dr. Hussain's reading of his engagements with anticolonial struggle and an insurrectionary vision of decolonized "world literature." Reading Nazrul's writings through Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani's notion of muqawamah, and in dialogue with the Latin American revolutionary Roque Dalton's concept… Continue reading Prose as Praxis: Nazruls Emancipatory and Imagination and Dialectical Dance
