Land, Language, and People: Arab and Jewish Imagination in the Late Ottoman Empire

Name: Land, Language, and People: Arab and Jewish Imagination in the Late Ottoman Empire
Start: 2025-10-16T13:00:00-04:00
Location: Cook-Devos Center for Health Sciences

Schedule

Thu, 16 Oct, 2025 at 01:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Cook-Devos Center for Health Sciences | Grand Rapids, MI

The 5th Annual Padnos Public Engagement Lecture on Jewish Learning: Land, Language, and People: Arab and Jewish Imagination in the Late Ottoman Empire
Thursday, October 16 from 7 - 8:30 PM
GVSU Cook-Devos Center for Health Sciences (CHS)
301 Michigan St NE Grand Rapids, MI 49503
RSVP: https://myumi.ch/XyxAR
Speakers: Mostafa Hussein, Eric Covey
Moderator: Deborah Dash Moore
Join us for a conversation between Mostafa Hussein and GVSU Professor Eric Covey, facilitated by Deborah Dash Moore. Drawing from his upcoming book, Hebrew Orientalism: Jewish Engagement with Arabo-Islamic Culture in Late Ottoman and British Palestine, Dr. Hussein will explore how Jewish writers in late Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine utilized Arabo-Islamic culture. A recording of the lecture will be made available to anyone who RSVPs but cannot attend in-person.