Brown's Center for Middle East Studies invites proposals for small reading groups focused on a relevant theme or topic to explore areas of common interest in a low stress atmosphere of informal intellectual interaction. These themes of exploration and intellectual interaction are reflected in the name of this initiative, Shahbandar, a Persian title meaning "harbor master" or "port master" that is also the name of a famous cafe and intellectual hub on Baghdad's al-Mutanabbi Street.
The minimum requirements for a reading group are:
- at least three committed individual participants
- at least three meetings over the course of a semester
- at least one member of the group will share insights from the discussion group in a video recording for the CMES website
Direct any questions to: alex_winder@brown.edu
