Past Institutes
2021

The 2021 Institute was held remotely die to the ongoing restrictions of in-person gatherings.

Teaching Artist Karl Orozco gives a workshop on "The Art of & Art From Interviewing."

"Arab Maquem" workshop with Institute faculty member Samer Ali.

The 2021 Institute was held remotely die to the ongoing restrictions of in-person gatherings.

Project co-coordinator Sahar Muradi recites a ghazal about gardens by the great Persian poet Hafiz at the Indo-Persian inspired Untermyer Park Gardens (photo by: Amanda Dargan)

Artist Haifa Bint-Kadi stands at the gates of the Untermyer Park and Gardens in Yonkers, NY


Project co-coordinator Sahar Muradi recites a ghazal about gardens by the great Persian poet Hafiz at the Indo-Persian inspired Untermyer Park Gardens (photo by: Amanda Dargan)
2018
2016

Institute participants at the Indo-Persian-inspired gardens of Untermyer Park & Conservancy in Yonkers, NY.

Summer Scholars try their hand at a game of Bait Bazi, or South Asian poetic dueling

Summer Scholars conduct collaborative English translations of poems.

Institute participants at the Indo-Persian-inspired gardens of Untermyer Park & Conservancy in Yonkers, NY.

“Middle (F)Eastern Brooklyn” – Meeting Charlie Sahadi, owner of Sahadi’s, the venerable Middle Eastern grocery located at 187 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn.

“Middle (F)Eastern Brooklyn”—A culinary discovery walk along a key stretch of Atlantic Avenue, center of Arab-American community life for decades, with Mary Ann DiNapoli, genealogist and local historian.

Screening: Selections from “In Search of Finah Misa Kule: Recovering a Lost Epic” with Dr. Steve Zeitlin and Sierra Leonean poet-historian Kewulay Kamara

“Middle (F)Eastern Brooklyn” – Meeting Charlie Sahadi, owner of Sahadi’s, the venerable Middle Eastern grocery located at 187 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn.