20th Annual Fall for the Book
October 10 - 13, 2018
www.FallForTheBook.org
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The Ottoman Caliphate's Mystical Turn
Wednesday October 10,10:30 am
Johnson Center, 3rd Floor, Meeting Room F
In Caliphate Redefined, Hüseyin Yilmaz challenges conventional narratives that portray the Ottoman Caliphate as a fading relic of Medieval Islamic law.
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Erasing Syria: The Home That Was Our Country
Friday, October 12, 12 pm
Research Hall, Room 163
Alia Malek's narrative explores her family’s Damascus apartment building and how the fate of their neighbors mirrors the fate of Syria, “the Syria that is being erased.”
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