Past Events

Professor Ibrahim Miari performs his one-man show at the Penn Museum on Thursday, December 8th, at 7:00 PM. Tickets available at the Penn Museum, with discounted options for students and members…

You are invited to attend a memorial event for A.B. Yehoshua on November 16, 2022.

There will be a…

Bread and beer were the staple foodstuffs of Ancient Egypt. Although abundantly represented in artwork and texts, actual archaeological evidence for the techniques of production and…

This event has passed. A recording of the panel and subsequent Q&A can be found here: Egyptology in Modern Egyptian History.

On…

Please join us for an exciting in-person public lecture about the revival of Modern Hebrew. The speaker is Gil Hovav, great-grandson of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. Ben-Yehuda was the driving…

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This event has passed. An audio recording of the panel and subsequent Q&A can be found here: Teaching Modern Egypt.

Harry Eli Kashdan is a scholar of food culture and migration in the contemporary Mediterranean. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from University of Michigan, and was Lauro de Bosis Postdoctoral…

Join us on January 26 for a Jewish Community Relations Council event, as we observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day and remember the innocent six million Jews and millions of other people who fell victims to…

This event has passed. A recording of the event and subsequent Q&A can be found here: A Discussion with Mercedes Volait.