Avi Rubin of Ben-Gurion University has titled his talk "Rule of Law in the Middle East: The Ottoman Antecedent." Admission is free and open tot he public.- The first of several events marking the anniversary of the Greenberg Middle East Scholar-in-Residence Program is a talk Oct. 7 by Yair Horesh on Arabic literary writing.
- New approaches to the study of Ottoman law and legal history have changed our understanding of this legal system. Greenberg Middle East Scholar-in-Residence Iris Agmon will discuss this changing perspective when she lectures Sept. 19 on campus.
- Ben-Gurion University scholar Daniella Talmon-Heller will discuss Jerusalem's sanctity in Islam from the seventh century until the 21st century and the role it is expected to play at the end of times in a Sept. 20 talk that is free and open to the public.