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In the wake of the recent uprising in Egypt, the Nelson Mandela Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution (NMCPCR) hosted a panel discussion titled “Winds of Change in the Arab World” on Friday, Feb. 11, 2011. . The speakers at the program were professor Qamar Agha, a journalist and a former professor in the Center for West Asian Studies, JMI; ...

Final year students in the Master of Arts in Convergent Journalism program in the AJK Mass Communication Research Center at Jamia, organized an exhibition titled “Road to Tibet.” The exhibition comprised of photos, documentaries and panel discussions. It was a two-day event starting on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011, and was held at the M.F. Hussain Gallery in Jamia. . The ...

Jamia’s Outreach Programme, in association with the department of English organized a session of book readings, on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011. The readings in the session were by Tania James and H.M. Naqvi, both short-listed for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2011, from their respective novels nominated for the prize. The session was held at the Dayar-I Mir ...

The department of political science organized a lecture by professor Stephen Clarkson titled, “A comprehensive economic partnership with Canada: What is in it for India?” on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011. Clarkson is a professor in the department of political science at the University of Toronto, Canada. Clarkson talked about the current low level trade between India and Canada and argued ...

The Nelson Mandela Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution organized a conference on Kashmir titled “Kashmir: Is peace possible?” on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2011, at the Mir Taqi Mir building on campus. The speakers on the panel consisted of Prem Shankar Jha, the former editor of Hindustan Times; Ravi Hemadri, the executive officer for The Other Media; Sukumar Murlidharan, the ...

According to a Jamia press release: a total of 58 students in diploma engineering evening courses have not been permitted to take their annual examination due to a shortage in their class attendance. Jamia requires a minimum of 75% class attendance to be eligible to appear for final exams. Below is a breakup of the number, according to branch and ...

The department of English organized a seminar titled “The Indian Diaspora in the Caribbean: A focus through V.S. Naipaul’s ‘A House For Mr. Biswas'” on, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011. The seminar was conducted by Dr. Judith Misrahi-Barak from the department of English at the Universite Paul Vale- Montpellier III, France. The seminar, attended by students from the department, irrespective of ...

The India-Arab Cultural Center and the Zakir Hussain Institute of Islamic Studies, organized a lecture by the Grand Mufti of Egypt, Sheikh Ali Gomaa, on Tuesday, Jan. 11. The event was held in the conference hall at the  Center for Information Technology;  which incidentally, was packed to capacity even before the event had begun. According to the Al-Ahram, an English ...

By Sadaf Ali Khan; Edited by Khalid Jaleel The department of Hindi at Jamia held its third Devdas Gandhi Memorial Lecture titled, “Bhasha Aur Rachnatmak Avrodh,” which loosely translates to, lack of innovation in the Hindi language. It was held at the Nehru guest house on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010. The guest speaker for the occasion was Rajendra Yadav, editor ...

The Subject Association at the Nelson Mandela Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution (NMCPCR) organized a talk on the topic of Palestinian liberation titled “In Solidarity with the Palestinian Cause” on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010 Speakers at the event were Dr. A.K. Ramakrishnan, professor at the Center for West Asian Studies, JNU; and Ashim Roy, the General Secretary of New ...