The Second International Symposium on Diversity and Unity in Transnational Shi’a Islam (Zoom)

"The Second International Symposium on Diversity and Unity in Transnational Shi’a Islam"

Attend this event via Zoom (advance registration required)

1:00PM - 2:30PM EDT | Panel 5: Shi’a Identities and Politics in the Modern Levant and Turkey

• "Ambiguity and Interfaith Dialogues: Making and Unmaking Bonds between the Isma'ili Druze and the Twelver Shi'a in Lebanon"
  Rula Abisaab, McGill University.
• "Lebanese Shi'a and Hezbollah: A Mutually Impacting Relationship"
  Aurelie Daher, Paris-Dauphine University.
• "Becoming a Minority: Alawites and Identity Politics in Syria"
  Aghiad Ghanem, Sciences Po.
• "State-Religion Relations and Alevis in Turkey"
  Mustafa Sen, Middle East Technical University.
• "Baba Rexheb and the Bektashi Order: Between Sufism and Shi'ism"
  Seyed Amir Hossein Asghari, Indiana University.
• Moderator: Payam Mohseni, Harvard University.

2:30PM EDT | Closing Remarks

For more information, please visit the symposium website.

Contact:

Payam Mohseni
pmohseni@fas.harvard.edu

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