When:
Monday, February 23, 2026
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM CT
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Graduate Students
Contact:
MENA
mena@northwestern.edu
Group: Middle East and North African Studies
Category: Lectures & Meetings
In Civilizing Contention, Rana B. Khoury traces the afterlife of a social movement in the depths of a brutal war. She shows how international humanitarians who come to help—and who rely on civil actors to do so—reshape activism itself.
Rana B. Khoury is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.