[MES Forum] Today at 4:30 pm – Covert Meanings: Religion, Language, and Gender in Saudi Arabia

[McClimans, Melinda]

Dear MES Forum members, join us at 4:30 for today’s event in our Multi-ethnic Cultural Reproductions in the Middle East (MCRME) series.
We are delighted to host Aidah Aljuran for her talk on “Covert Meanings: Religion, Language, and Gender in Saudi Arabia<https://mesc.osu.edu/events/covert-meanings-religion-language-and-gender-saudi-arabia>.” The lecture will focus on the Ismaʿili community, a minority group of Shiʿa Muslims living in a predominantly Sunni society, and will explore 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.
Date: Thursday, April 16, 2026
Time: 4:30–6:00 pm
Location: Stillman Hall, Room 235 (1947 College Rd N, Columbus, OH 43210)
The event is sponsored by the Middle East Studies Center, the Melton Center for Jewish Studies, and the Center for Ethics and Human Values, with special thanks to the Global Arts + Humanities | Cross-Disciplinary Research Exchange.
Please feel free to share this event with interested students and colleagues. We look forward to seeing you there!
Best wishes,
Melinda


Melinda McClimans, PhD
Assistant Director
The Ohio State University
International Affairs Middle East Studies Center
145 Enarson Classroom Building, 2009 Millikin Rd, Columbus Ohio 43210
614-292-6506 Office / 614-292-5897 Office
mcclimans.2 at osu.edu<mailto:mcclimans.2 at osu.edu> mesc.osu.edu<http://mesc.osu.edu/>

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