The UIC Campus Launch: Arab Americans Beyond Erasure and Profiling
Nadwat Series
November 9, 2023
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Location
Student Center East, Room 613
Address
750 Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60607
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UIC Campus Launch: Arab Americans Beyond Erasure and Profiling
Presentations and commentary by:
Nadine Naber, Professor, Gender and Women's Studies, Global Asian Studies, and Anthropology at UIC (Report PI)
Nicole Nguyen, Associate Professor Criminology, Law, and Justice UIC (report co-author)
Zeina Zaatari, Director, Arab American Cultural Center (Report co-author)
Nadiah Alyafai, UIC Student (Author, Expert Commentary)
Dima Khalidi, Executive Director, Palestine Legal (Author, Expert Commentary).
UIC faculty, administrators, and staff are especially encouraged to attend this event, which aims to provide knowledge and understanding about Arab American communities at UIC and in Chicagoland. Speakers will share findings from UIC's IRRPP report about the status of racial and economic justice for Arab Americans in Chicagoland. Themes include: demographics and migration patterns, access to social services, and engagements with racism in these areas: education, policing, and employment. The event will focus on the implications of these findings for UIC's large Arab American student population and the campus at large. This event is part of broader efforts at UIC to counter the erasure of Middle East/North Africa topics and students at UIC and challenge the ongoing racial stereotypes that impact Arab/Arab American students in various areas of campus life.
Event is co-sponsored by the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Engagement, The Arab American Cultural Center, The Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, Critical Middle East Studies Working Group of the Institute for the Humanities.
For accommodations, email us: arabamcc@uic.edu
Date posted
Oct 24, 2023
Date updated
Oct 24, 2023