Thu, April 16, 2026
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Stillman Hall 235
Join us for the next event in our Multi-ethnic Cultural Reproductions in the Middle East series. Aidah Aljuran’s research focuses on the Ismaʿili community, a minority group of Shiʿa Muslims living in a predominantly Sunni society in Saudi Arabia. Her work examines how practices of concealment and dissimulation operate in everyday life as social and linguistic practices, with particular attention to the central role of Saudi Ismaʿili women as caregivers and primary agents of cultural and epistemological transmission.
Dr. Aidah Aljuran
Presidential Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Linguistics
Department of Near Eastern & South
Asian Languages & Cultures
Sponsored by:
The Melton Center for Jewish Studies meltoncenter.osu.edu
The Middle East Studies Center mesc.osu.edu
The Center for Ethics and Human Values cehv.osu.edu
With special thanks to the Global Arts + Humanities | Cross-Disciplinary Research Exchange