Courses
310 courses since 2014
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310 courses
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Ecology between East and West: Philosophical and Theological Dialogues on Environmental and Animal Ethics
This course, Ecology between East and West: Philosophical and Theological Dialogues on Environmental and Animal Ethics, will engage both the Western and Islamicate traditions. It will deal with Environmental Ethics in general, and Animal Ethics in particular. In contemporary…
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Pedagogy Lab: Philosophy of the Teacher. Power of the Teacher & the Teacher-student Relationship
In his Metaphysics, Aristotle writes, “it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize” (1984, pp. Met: Book I (A), § 2, 982b12-982b13), and in this course, philosophy of the teacher will lead us down to the difficult path of asking some…
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words - Reading and Writing the Photographic Image
The photographic image plays a pivotal role in our modern era, an age in which image and media culture have become more dominant than ever. Given this powerful influence, it has become necessary to regard the image as a form of discourse that goes hand in hand with other modes…
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Anthropology and Storytelling Along the Water’s Edge
They can be opaque or crystal clear, familiar or mysterious, haunting, joyful, dreamy, muddy, bounded or endless; waterbodies are excellent sites for exploring the relationship between humans, and their various conceptions of culture and nature. Waterscapes both enact and wit…
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“Us” and “Them”? : Social Psychology and Psychoanalysis in Conversation
Through the last ten years the world we live in can be characterized at best as unstable. Regimes and orders of thought, government, technology, lifestyles, art and space have been in a continuous motion of rapid changes and dislocations. Trends on social media platforms can b…
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حتى لا تكون بومر: عايزين من الفن إيه؟
العلاقة بين الفن والمجتمع علاقة شائكة، ربما نرى عملا فنيا متواضعا يخلق أو يعزز أنماط ثقافية بعينها ، وربما نجد عملا فنيا اخر يمكن وصفه بالجيد يحبطه المجتمع ولا يتجاوب معه. كمستهلكين للفن والمواد الثقافية المختلفة تدور في بالنا عشرات الأسئلة حول الفن الجيد والردئ، حول دور المج…
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Unveiling Heidegger: Exploring Truth, Art, Technology, and Metaphysics
In this course, we will aim at closely reading four of the most important essays written by arguably the most important philosopher in the 20th century, Martin Heidegger, tackling the following subjects: Truth, Art, Technology, and Metaphysics. In each of his essays, Heidegge…
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Sailing the Grey: Perspectives on piracy and pirates
Pirates have always existed in a gray area, sailing both within and outside of established systems, continuously demonized and idolized, hunted and protected. They seemed to be everywhere and nowhere in particular, always on the fringe of society. As we delve into stories, pr…
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Medical Anthropology and Doing Social Research: Amplifying Voices and Putting Theory into Practice
This course introduces students to the field of medical anthropology, exploring its historical and contemporary approaches. Students will gain an understanding of the social and cultural determinants of health and illness, and how to conduct person-centered social research. Th…
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Dionysus and the Devil: Occultism, Witchcraft, and other “mysteries”
Between the autumn of 1996 and the spring of 1997, Egypt witnessed a “Satanic panic.” The allegation that Heavy Metal concerts served as a cover up for Satanist rituals soon turned into a moral scare followed by a wave of arrests—and by an iconically nonsensical set of televis…
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On Motherhood: Between Gendered Identities and Tools of Resistance
As motherhood has been the haunting ghost in women’s life, it surely has constructed their self-image and directed their gender performance. Mothering has been sold to the world as the sacred mission that cannot be questioned or challenged. Yet, in real life, motherhood is not…
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تاريخ المحاكم الشرعية في النصف الأول من القرن العشرين
تقدم هذه الدورة فرصة للتعرف على تاريخ المحاكم الشرعية التي كانت موجودة في مصر حتى منتصف القرن العشرين، بوصفها مدخلا هاما لاستكشاف جوانب مختلفة من الحياة الاجتماعية والثقافية والسياسية في مصر خلال هذه الفترة الهامة. وتستخدم هذه الدورة تقنية تفاعلية لدراسة عدة نماذج من قضايا الم…
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معمل (الجندر): ما فعله بنا الجندر
ماذا حدث لنا وللعالم في لحظة معرفة جنسنا؟ سقطت علينا الاف الأدوار والتوقعات المصاغة جندريا من قبل المجتمع والمعدة للفصل والتمييز بين الرجال والنساء، ولان تلك الأدوار محكمة بشدة فان لها صداها في كل مكان الشارع، المدرسة، الجامعة، العلاقات الاسرية ، علاقات العمل، الازمات المجتمعي…
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Film Theory (Contemporary)
Film theory is the study of general patterns used to create and articulate film language. It differs from film history and film analysis. Film history is concerned with the study of major milestones in the progress of the filmmaking industry; and film analysis is the study of…
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Visual philosophy Lab
Let’s turn the introspective power of philosophy into art! Visual philosophy is an experimental concept of crossover between philosophy reflection and artistic production. This class invites you to join a collective talk about basic philosophy notions. We will study the found…
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Historical Perspectives on Medicine in the Modern Middle East course
What can we learn about the Middle East through the study of medicine? In recent years, scholars of the region have increasing plumbed the histories of hospitals, doctors, and patients to provide novel perspectives on topics such as cultural exchange, religion, state power, an…
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Film Theory workshop
Film theory is the study of general patterns used to create and articulate film language. It differs from film history and film analysis. Film history is concerned with the study of major milestones in the progress of the filmmaking industry; and film analysis is the study of…
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Thinking Migration: Political Realism in the Age of International Migration Law
This course explores the philosophical underpinnings of migration, specifically the political and legal factors that shape the movements of people, their premises, and the responses thereof. It will focus on “political realism” and its conceptual basis, as one of the major inf…
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Narrating Nubia: Literature, Memory, and (Ecological) Space
Nubian culture is entangled with memories of loss and longing. The Nubian indigenous peoples lived by the Nile river for hundreds of years before the systematic flooding of their homeland over the course of the 19th Century due to the establishment of the Aswan Dam and the Hig…
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