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The ninth annual Southwest Graduate Conference in Middle Eastern Studies, hosted by the Middle East and North Africa Graduate Student Association of The University of Arizona and supported by the UA Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the UA department of Near Eastern studies,  will be held on the UA campus.

The conference has a long history of bringing together graduate students working on the Middle East from all disciplines and of providing an enriching forum for young scholars to present their work and to receive feedback from professors and their own academic peers on their scholarship and presentation skills.

This year's theme is "Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives in Middle Eastern Studies," and the keynote address will be given by UA alumnus Ziad Fahmy, assistant professor of modern Middle East history at Cornell University. His address is titled “Media Capitalism: Colloquial Mass Culture and Nationalism in Egypt, 1904-1919.”

More information on the conference, graduate student panels and nightly events can be found online.