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CMENAS is pleased to announce its Virtual Fall Colloquium, hosted on Zoom. Our Colloquium will feature an array of speakers with the theme:
Public Health and Pandemics across the MENA: A Multidisciplinary Exhibition
Colloquium Questions: Kristin Waterbury, waterbuk@umich.edu.
Colloquium Series Schedule
Michael Low, Assistant Professor, History, Iowa State University
Ecologies of Empire: Ottoman Arabia, the Indian Ocean Hajj, and the Global Crisis of Cholera
Somdeep Sen, Associate Professor, International Development Studies, Roskilde University
Public Health Under Siege: A View from the Gaza Strip
Ambreen Kazi Kamran, Assistant Professor, Princess Nora Bint Abdallah Women Health Research Chair, Department of Family & Community Medicine, King Saud University
Gender differences in Approaches to Pandemics in the MENA Region
Sameer Naser Olimat, Assistant Professor, Translation Studies and Computational Linguistics, English Department, Salt Faculty of Human Sciences, Al-Balqa Applied University, Salt, Jordan
Do We Speak COVID-19? Language and Translation in the Era of Global Crises
Justin Thomas, Professor, Chair of Psychology, Zayed University
Panic, Pestilence and Religious Coping
Ibrahim Aref Kira, Managing Director, Center for Cumulative Trauma Studies
Public Health and Pandemics across the MENA: A psychological Perspective on Arab Countries
Huda M. Al Hourani, Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Nutrition and Diabetes, The Hashemite University
Obesity in Schoolchildren and its Link to Chronic Diseases
Sarah Trainer, Research & Program Coordinator, Seattle University ADVANCE Program
Weight and Body Image in the Middle East: Perspectives from 2021
Lilian Ghandour, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, American University of Beirut
Alcohol Harm Reduction in Lebanon: The Context, The Industry and the Young Consumer
Peter Walton, Independent Researcher, United Kingdom
The Role of Islam in Public Health Policy on Smoking Cessation