The Maryse and Ramzy Mikhail Memorial Lecture

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Welcome to the online home of the Maryse and Ramzy Mikhail Memorial Lecture!

The Mikhail Memorial Lecture is an annual event made possible through the Maryse and Ramzy Mikhail Endowment Fund at the University of Toledo, established in June, 2000, by the Mikhail family.

The purpose of the fund is to support an annual lecture dealing with “Arab culture, literature, history, politics, economics or other broadly defined aspects of life in the countries of the Middle East, including issues of peace and justice.”  Additionally, the fund may be used for awarding prizes for competitively written essays, scholarships to university students, or the acquisition of specialized educational materials. Support of other scholarly endeavors dealing with the above topics and endorsed by the Mikhail Fund Advisory Committee is also possible.

The inaugural lecture was given in March, 2001 by internationally renowned scholar and activist Noam Chomsky. Subsequent lectures have featured authorities on religion, law, literature, politics, culture, economics, and peace and justice issues.

We are delighted to announce that Melissa Chimera and Adele Ne James, an artist-poet mother-daughter creative duo, will deliver this year’s Mikhail Memorial Lecture. The 22nd annual lecture will be held in a hybrid format with the support of the University of Toledo College of Arts and Letters on Tuesday, October 18, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. Eastern at the McQuade Law Auditorium on the University of Toledo’s Main Campus. The title of their presentation is, “The Lebanese Diaspora, Loss and Recovery: A Personal Retrospective.” The 21st annual Maryse and Ramzy Mikhail Memorial Lecture was delivered by Noura Erakat on Sunday, October 10, 2021 at the McQuade Law Auditorium at the University of Toledo. The lecture, “We Broke a Dam: The Palestinian Intifada of Unity” is also available to view on WGTE’s KnowledgeStream website or its embed on our website, mikhaillecture.org We are delighted to announce that the 21st annual Maryse & Ramzy Mikhail Memorial Lecture will be held Sunday, October 10, 2021 at 3:00 p.m., featuring human rights attorney and scholar Noura Erakat. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held at the University of Toledo, at the law school’s McQuade Law Auditorium. The lecture, titled, “We Broke a Dam: The Palestinian Intifada of Unity,” also will be available to view after the event thanks to our long-standing partnership with @wgtepublic KnowledgeStream series. Thank you to everyone who tuned in for our event “Memory and Erasure: An Evening with Laila Lalami.” Video of the event is viewable for the next two months at the link in our bio! We not only welcome, but strongly encourage educators to use this material in their coursework. Join us Tuesday, December 8 at 7 p.m. EST on Zoom for “An Evening with Laila Lalami!” Author, activist and policy analyst Phyllis Bennis gave the 19th Annual Maryse and Ramzy Mikhail Memorial Lecture on Sunday, Nov. 16, 2019 at The University of Toledo. On Sunday, Nov. 4, 2018 at, Professor and Poet Mohja Kahf delivered the 18th annual Maryse & Ramzy Mikhail Memorial Lecture at the University of Toledo. The reading was titled, “I Want Milk, I Want Honey: An Afternoon of Poetry with Mohja Kahf.” The 17th Annual Maryse and Ramzy Mikhail Memorial Lecture at The University of Toledo was delivered by Neal Katyal @nealkatyal on Wednesday, October 11, 2017. His talk, “The President and the Courts in National Security Cases” was a historic discussion of the #muslimban travel ban case by one of the nation’s leading Supreme Court advocates. On Sunday, October 9, 2016 the 16th annual Maryse and Ramzy Mikhail Memorial Lecture featured @gazamom Laila El-Haddad, an award-winning Palestinian writer, documentarian and public speaker who frequently lectures on #Gaza, the intersection of #food and politics, and contemporary Islam. Her talk was called, “Food As Lens: Cuisine, Resistance, and Remembrance in #Palestine.” Dr. Thomas P. Abowd delivered the 15th annual Maryse and Ramzy Mikhail Memorial Lecture in 2015. On Sunday, October 12, 2014 the 14th annual Maryse and Ramzy Mikhail Memorial Lecture featured Dr. Lila Abu-Lughod, the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science in #Anthropology at Columbia University. Dr. Juan Cole, internationally renowned expert on the Middle East, delivered the 13th annual Maryse and Ramzy Mikhail Memorial Lecture on Sunday, November 17, 2013 at 3:30 p.m. in the Driscoll Center Auditorium at The University of Toledo. The title of his lecture was, “Youth Movements and the Arab Revolutions.” We were honored to have the late great Dr. Jack Shaheen, scholar of media and popular culture, deliver the 12th annual #mikhailmemoriallecture in 2012. In 2011, Gwynne Dyer gave the 11th annual #mikhailmemoriallecture on the topic, “The New Middle East: Non-violence and Democracy.” Saree Makdisi gave the tenth annual #MikhailMemorialLecture at the @utoledoartsletters. Rahim AlHaj, virtuoso oud player and renowned composer, gave a solo performance for the Ninth Annual Maryse and Ramzy Mikhail Memorial Lecture Sunday, Oct. 11, at 3 p.m. at the UT Center for Performing Arts Recital Hall on Main Campus. The 8th annual Mikhail Memorial Lecture, "The Stakes Have Never Been Higher: U.S. Middle East Policy and the 2008 Elections,” was given by James Zogby in October 2008. Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur gave the 2007 Mikhail Memorial Lecture,“Moving Toward Stability and Democracy in the Middle East.” On Sunday September 10, 2006, Kathy Kelly gave the 6th annual Mikhail Memorial Lecture, titled, "Other Lands Have Dreams." Robert Mabro gave the 5th annual Mikhail lecture on the topic, “The Economics and Politics of Oil on October 2, 2005. In 2004, Naomi Shihab Nye gave the fourth annual Mikhail lecture. The third lecture in the series was given by David Cole in 2003. The title of his lecture was, “Enemy Aliens and American Freedoms: Why We All Have a Stake in the Rights of Foreign Nationals in the War on Terrorism.” The second lecture was given in 2002 by John L. Esposito. The title of his lecture was, “What Everyone Needs to Know About Islam.” The inaugural Mikhail lecture was given in March 2001 by internationally renowned scholar and activist Noam Chomsky.

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