Want to understand recent events in Egypt and the surrounding region better? A Teach-in Panel on Turmoils in the Middle East – an area covering North Africa and Western Asia – will be presented this week, featuring 91ÑÇÉ« professors from the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies.
The teach-in will take place Thursday, Feb. 10, at 2:30pm at 2183 Vari Hall, Keele campus, with 91ÑÇÉ« history Professor Thabit Abdullah, political science Professor , equity studies professors and Nadia Habib.
Abdullah is the author of , and the co-editor of .
Right: Nadia Habib
A human rights lecturer, Habib was one of the top 10 finalists in TVOntario’s 2010 Big Ideas Best Lecturer Competition. Her research focus is on Egyptian cultural life, but she has also directed, produced and performed in live theatre, and is a poet and activist. She continues to be involved in creative projects and wrote and participated in the 
narration of A Hot Sand Filled Wind, the third instalment of b.h. Yael's film, .
Left: Haideh Moghissi
Moghissi is the author of , which was translated and reprinted in 2010 by a South Korean publisher, and co-editor of , which explores issues of race and ethnicity, culture, media, gender and migration. In 2009, she published a monograph, , co-authored by 91ÑÇÉ« political science professors Rahnema and Mark Goodman.
Right: Saeed Rahnema
Rahnema won the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities’ Leadership in Faculty Teaching Award in 2007, the 91ÑÇÉ«-Wide Teaching Excellence Award in 2004 and was named most popular professor at 91ÑÇÉ« four years in a row by Maclean’s Magazine's Guide to Canadian Universities. He is author of , Re-birth of Social Democracy in Iran (Baran Books Verlag, 1996) and co-author of Selected Communities of Islamic Cultures in Canada: A Statistical Profile, Diaspora, Islam and Gender Project (2005).
The event is sponsored by the and the Middle Eastern Student Association at 91ÑÇÉ« U.
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