Weapons You Can't See: Fifty Years of War and the Making of a Region

Thursday, November 5th | 5:00 PM PT/ 8:00 PM ET 

Join us for a special webinar with Dr. Narges Bajoghli, Associate Professor of Middle East Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), for a wide-ranging discussion on war, power, and the forces that have shaped the contemporary Middle East. An anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, Dr. Bajoghli studies the intersections of revolution, media, war, and global politics.

Dr. Bajoghli will discuss how a half a century of war has transformed the Middle East and how the consequences of war become embedded in economics, political institutions, media, public memory, and every life. Drawing on years of ethnographic research and engagement with people whose lives have been shaped by conflict, Dr. Bajoghli will examine how prolonged warfare has helped transform the political and social landscape of the Middle East. Her scholarship reveals what conflict looks like from within societies and how individuals, families, institutions, and communities adapt to political and military forces that may persist across generations.

This webinar will provide participants with an opportunity to understand the contemporary Middle East through a deeper historical and human-centered lens. Rather than focusing only on individual wars or moments of crisis, this webinar will examine how decades of conflict and coercion have shaped political institutions, regional relationships, collective memory, and everyday life, and what these histories can teach us about the continuing consequences of war in the Middle East and beyond.

This event is open to members and non-members. If you are an AMENA-Psy member, please use the email attached to your account to register.