Previous Events
Spring–Summer 2021
Spring–Summer 2020
- Policy Implications of Legalizing Cannabis Cultivation in Lebanon
- Socially Relevant Film Festival NY
- Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry
- CWA Virtual Workshops
- Al-Rabita Centenary Celebration:The New York League of Arab American Writers, Poets and Artists, 1920
- Virtual WorkShop Initiative
- An Evening with the Cast & Creatives of The Vagrant Trilogy
- Facing a Storm – Iran’s Future at a Crossroad
- Is the Lebanese Diaspora Doing Enough for Lebanon?
- Politics of Modern Middle Eastern Art
- Pop-Up Panel: Hezbollah and the Lebanese Crisis
- Talking Gender: Fluidity, Pronouns, and the Arabic Language
Fall 2019
- An Evening with LGBTIQ Activists from the MENA Region
- Strangers No More: Syrians in the United States, 1880 - 1900
- Unruly Crescent – Protest Movements in Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon
- Reception for Consul General of Lebanon Majdi Ramadan
- Islamic Feminism and Arab Family Law Reform in Morocco, Egypt and Lebanon
- A Shared Vision towards the Realization of the Women, Peace and Security
- Book Talk: Age Of CoExistence: The Ecumenical Frame And The Making Of The Modern Arab World
- Prosecuting Syrian War Criminals in Germany : A Conversation with Deb Amos
- The Future Female Professionals of Palestine
- “The Responsible Globalist” Hassan Damluji in conversation with Riz Ahmed
Spring–Summer 2019
- Global Outreach and Leadership Development - GOLD 2019
- Women In Yemen: Impact of the Humanitarian Crisis
- The Arab Institute for Women - AiW Presents: “Empowered Bodies, Empowered Beings.”
- “Assad Or We Burn The Country: How One Family’s Lust for Power Destroyed Syria” by Pulitzer Prize-nominated Journalist Sam Dagher
- High School Students take center-stage in shaping the Sustainable Development Goals at Forthcoming Model UN Conference
- 2019 LAU NY 7th Annual Gala
- LEBANON 1960 -1975 — A PHOTOGRAPHIC HARVEST BEFORE THE STORM
- Upcoming Model UN Conference for Middle School Students Celebrates International Diplomacy
- Feminist Perspectives: Challenging Gender-Based Violence and Structural Inequality in the Arab Region and Beyond
- Book Launch with Robert Myers and Nada Saab
- LAU North American Alumni Conference
- Glass Slipper or Glass Ceiling? Connecting the Fashion Industry and Gender Equality
Fall 2018
- LAU New York in 2018
- Performance: Classical Syrian Musical Composition
- Workshop: Learn how to Dabkeh
- Panel: Frantz Fanon, Decolonization and the Future of Middle East Politics
- An Ode to NYC: Poetry And Prose from Beirut to Brooklyn
Spring–Summer 2018
- Afternoon Kayaking with the NY/NJ Alumni Chapter of LAU
- Kahlil Gibran: Lebanon’s Message to the World
- Film Screening: Nour
- 6th Annual Gala
- 2018 Global Classrooms International (GCI) Model UN Middle School conference
Fall 2017
- Film Screening: “Women In Time”
- Lecture: “From Black Holes to Habitable Exoplanets: Our Incredible Cosmos”
Spring–Summer 2017
- Book Talk: “The Decline of Nation-States after the Arab Spring”
- Performance: “Masters of Lebanese Zajal: Poetic Dueling in Song”
- Performance: “Bridging Voices: An Evening of Poetry, Zajal, and Song”
- Workshop: “Refugees and Migrants: Boston’s Levantine Communities in Historical Perspective”
- Lecture: “Phoenician Expedition Crossing the Atlantic”
- Exhibition: “Celebrating Lebanese Olive Oil”
- Book Talk: “Lebanon on Screen: The Greatest Moments of Lebanese Television and Pop Culture”
- Lecture: “Music in Islam”
- Book Talk: “Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran”
Fall 2016
- Syria Resilient Series: Film Screening: “Little Gandhi”
- Syria Resilient Series: Film Screening: “50 Feet from Syria”
- Syria Resilient Series: Music/Visual Art Performance: “Home Within”
- Film Screening: “Halal Love”
- Workshop: “Bankseta Investment Banking Programme”
- Book Awards: “Honoring Writing from Little Syria to Today”
- Conference: “IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing (WiMob)”
- Poetry Readings/Exhibit: “A Commemoration of Lebanese Poet Jawdat R. Haydar”
- Syria Resilient Series: Panel Discussion: “Syria’s Predicament and the U.S. Role”
- Syria Resilient Series: Poetry/Music Performance: “Stripped to the Bone”
Spring–Summer 2016
- Book Talk: “Beirut on the Bayou: Alfred Nicola, Louisiana, and the Making of Modern Lebanon”
- Panel Discussion/Tasting: “Food and Identity: Celebrating Lebanese Cuisine in New York”
- Dance Performance: “Connecting through Dance”
- Panel Discussion: “ABANA Conversation with Deans of the Schools of Business of AUB, LAU & AUC”
- Music Performance: “Bassam Saba & April Centrone of The New York Arabic Orchestra”
- Panel Discussion: “American Higher Education in the Middle East”
- Museum Tour: “Walid Raad Exhibit at MoMA”
Fall 2015
- Book Talk: “Strangers in the West: The Syrian Colony of New York City, 1880-1900”
- Film Screening: “Cairo Drive”
- Lecture/Tasting: “Heirs of Bacchus: The Story of the Lebanese Wine Industry”
- Book Talk: “Writing Beirut: Mappings of the City in the Modern Arabic Novel”
- Lecture: “Jesus the Phoenician: Unveiling the Hidden Identity of Christ”
- Performance/Panel Discussion: “Conversation on Contemporary Beirut Theater”
Spring–Summer 2015
- Dance Performance: “Developing Community Through Dance in Lebanon”
- Lecture: “Private Space Travel Projects: From Lebanon to Texas”
- Arab American Experience Series: Exhibit: “A is for Arab: Stereotypes in U.S. Popular Culture”
- Arab American Experience Series: Poetry/Music Performance: “Longing and Belonging: Voyages with Nathalie Handal”
- Arab American Experience Series: Lecture: “Daring to Differ”
- Arab American Experience Series: Film Screening: “Reel Bad Arabs”
- Arab American Experience Series: Lecture: “Perceptions of Arabs and Muslims in American Popular Culture”
- Panel Discussion: “The Lebanese Diaspora, Remittances, and Economic Development”
Fall 2014
- Book Talk: “Law of Desire: Temporary Marriage in Shi’i Islam”
- Lecture: “The Jobless Trap in the U.S.”
- Lecture: “Lebanon’s World Heritage Sites”
- Book Talk: “Arab Approaches to Conflict Resolution: Mediation, Negotiation, and Settlement of Political Disputes”
Spring–Summer 2014
- Lecture: “The Sectarian Tide in the Middle East: Sources, Symptoms and Solutions”
- Lecture: “Ameen Rihani’s Legacy of Place”
- Lecture: “What is the Role of Morality in American Foreign Policy?”
- Lecture: “Lost in Transition: Conflict and Change in the Arab World”
- Lecture: “Is the Arab World in Freefall or National Rebirth?”
- Lecture: “The Arab Culture and the Revolution: A Missed Opportunity?”