Event Category Archives: Featured Arabic

Navigating Emotional Jetlag: A Palestinian Reflection on Identity and Hope

Join Palestinian lived theologian Shadia Qubti for an intimate presentation exploring what it means to live between worlds. Through personal storytelling, readings from her own writings, and contemporary Palestinian music and poetry, Qubti will share lived experiences navigating between Nazareth and Vancouver while carrying intergenerational trauma amid ongoing genocide. Using her concept of “emotional jetlag”—living […]

Layers of Fear: Arabic in a Monolingual University

This talk is part of the Arts Multilingual Week “Linguaphobia, Linguistic Indifference, the Monolingual University” symposium and will be presented in English. Dr. Nesrine Basheer will share insights from a collaborative curriculum redesign carried out with heritage Arabic students at UBC. Together, they challenged monolingual assumptions, affirmed the legitimacy of Arabic dialects, and co-created learning […]

Text to Screen: Students Interpret Modern Arabic Literature Through Film

Join the 11 students of ASIA 380: Modern Arabic Literature in Translation for an end-of-term creative showcase. This term, students have been reading and discussing major modern Arabic literary texts while engaging with themes such as alienation, feminism, epistemic injustice, migration, exile, refugeehood, war, necropolitics, and more. For their final project, students were asked to […]

2026 Asian Studies Careers Night

The Department of Asian Studies is delighted to invite you to our biennial Careers Night! Navigating life after graduation can be hard, so we ask reputable guests and alumni with diverse experiences – at home and in Asia – to inform and inspire current students. This event will feature keynote speeches from an ex-Consul General […]