Events
Revolutionary Spaces: Street, Square, Mosque, and the Role of Islam in the Arab Uprisings
By Sumaiya Hamdani
10/27/2011 08:00 am
Location: Research Hall, Room 161, George Mason University
The Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies, Middle East Studies Program, and the Working Group on Displaced Population, present:
"Revolutionary Spaces: Street, Square, Mosque, and the Role of Islam in the Arab Uprisings"
by Sumaiya Hamdani
As part of the semester-long lecture series on the Arab uprisings, Sumaiya Hamdani, Associate Professor in the Department of History and Art History, discusses the ground-breaking developments in the Middle East taking a close look at the significance of public spaces that protest movements emerged from and Islam's role in this historic transformative period.