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A professor from Birzeit University, Palestine, Sa’d Nimer, is delivering a series of lectures in English at the University of Malta, Msida campus.
The first lecture titled ‘The Palestine Question’, held yesterday, will be followed tomorrow at noon, in room GW311, with a talk on ‘Modern and Contemporary Arab Thought’. This lecture will focus on the development of Arab thought from the mid-19th century until today. This includes Islamic reformism, Arab nationalism, political Islam, secularism and Marxism. The lecture will seek to help explain many issues in the current Arab situation.
On Thursday, at 1pm, in room OH 112, Mr Nimer will give his third and last talk on Islamic Art in the Mediterranean. He will present some slides from around the Mediterranean region showing the richness of Islamic civilisation. Mr Nimer was the Palestinian coordinator of an EU-funded project on this subject administered by the international organisation Museum with No Frontier.
Mr Nimer has been teaching in the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies of Birzeit University in Palestine for the past 15 years. His areas of specialisation are modern and contemporary Arab thought, the Palestinian question, Arab society and Palestinian culture. He also teaches in the Palestine and Arabic studies programme (PAS) at Birzeit. Mr Nimer obtained a BA in sociology and political science from An-Najah University in Nablus, Palestine, and an MA in Middle East politics from the University of Exeter in the UK. He is also a political activist for the freedom of Palestinian political prisoners and is active in the Right to Education Campaign.
The lectures are hosted by the Department of Maltese in the Faculty of Arts of the University of Malta within the framework of the Erasmus+ programme. The International Office of the University of Malta helped organise Mr Nimer’s visit.
All lectures are being held at the main campus of the University of Malta in Tal-Qroqq and are open to students, staff and the public. For more information on the talks, write to Adrian Grima of the Department of Maltese on adrian.grima@um.edu.mt or visit the Department’s page on Facebook.