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Malcolm X: Malcolm X Returns to AUB events

THIS GUIDE AIMS TO COMPILE RESOURCES RELATED TO MALCOLM’S X VISIT TO BEIRUT AND AUB IN 1964

Malcolm X Returns to AUB

During his first visit in 29 April, 1965, Malcolm X was not allowed to speak at the American University of Beirut. However, during his second, on September 29, the students forced the University to let him speak, "this time he was welcomed." 

After his assassination, many events took place at AUB focusing on his 1964 visits to Lebanon and the Arab World. Some were in the form of academic conferences and lectures; others were artistic and creative presentations of his short, yet significant encounters with this part of the world.

Malcolm X Events at AUB

Malcolm X Returns AUB Event 2015

Narratives of Hope : Malcolm X Returns. Frb. 23 2015. West Hall AUB

"Narratives of Hope:Malcolm X Returns". Sponsored by CASAR, the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship, the Arts and Humanities Initiative, and the English Department,AUB. Monday February 23, in West Hall, AUB Auditorium B. 6:30pm . Panel Discussion Featured Speakers: Ajamu Baraka, "From Ferguson to Palestine: Malcolm X and Black Internationalism", Daniel Drennan, "Shadow, Body, Spirit: Malcolm X Imaged and Imagined", and moderator: Rania Masri. 7:45 p.m: Malcolm X Speaks. With Jamal Awar as Malcolm X. Writer/Director: Tariq Mehmood. 51 Years after his last visit, on the 50th anniversary of his assassination, Malcolm X returns to speak again in Beirut. Then he was denied speaking rights at the American University of Beirut. This time he is welcomed.

Globalizing Malcolm X - Lecture by Alex Lubin. CASAR) at AUB, 9 February 2015

The Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR) at AUB is organizing a lecture entitled: "Globalizing Malcolm X" by Alex Lubin, professor and chair of the American Studies Department at the University of New Mexico.
Date: 9 February 2015
Time: 5:30 PM
Place: Building 37 Conference A
The talk will explore the worldliness of Malcolm X by focusing on his 1964 travels across North Africa and the Arab world, while examining the ways in which Malcolm's political philosophy drew from his encounters with pan-Islamist and Arab nationalist social movements.

Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary 

While serving as the director of CASAR, Alex Lubin released Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary (2014) from University of No​rth Carolina Press. A book of transnational cultural history that links together the political thought of African American and Arab freedom-struggles, Geographies of Liberation demonstrates how blacks in American constructed freedom, and subsequently, how Middle Eastern groups drew on African American examples to determine their own political agenda.

51 Years after his last visit, on the 50th anniversary of his assassination, Malcolm X returns to speak again in Beirut.

After Hajj | Malcolm X in Beirut

On February 23rd at 7:45 PM, 2015 West Hall

PERFORMANCE With: Jamal Awar as Malcolm X Writer/Director: Tariq Mehmood (speaker at the beginning of the video)