Talks and Lectures

2026

Islamic Colloquia of Edinburgh: "Defining Nature in Al-Kindī: Greek Physics and Islamic Creation."

Bibliotheca Alexandrina (featured speaker): "The Dynamic Nature of Time: An Interdisciplinary Defense from Science, Music, and Philosophy."

 

2025

Cairo Opera House, 33rd Annual Festival and Scientific Conference in Arab Music: "Aristotle and Arab Music Theory: The Renaissance of Greek Thought in Egyptian Music and the Age of Artificial Intelligence."

Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies, St Anne's College, University of Oxford: "Aesthetic Experience of Time in the Qur'ān: A Comparative Approach to Time and Temporality in Recitative Praxis."

University of California, Los Angeles, SEMHCSC conference: "Garcia Lorca's Daemon and Ibn ʿArabī's Jinn: Translating Sufism into the Aesthetics and Poetics of Flamenco Time."

American Research Center in Egypt (fellowship lecture): "The Philosopher's Instrument: The ʿUd as a Scientific and Metaphysical Object."

Zewail City of Science and Technology: "The Nature of Storytelling."

American University in Cairo: "Behind the Universe: The Story of the Cosmos and Time."

 

2024

American Society of Islamic Philosophy and Theology, in partnership with Harvard University: "Ethical Beauty and the Soul: Musical Aesthetics in the Writings of al-Kindī."

King's College London, 9th Conference of the Music and Philosophy Study Group: "Harmonia of the Nafs: Musico-Theological Anthropology of the Body-Soul Problem in 9th–10th Islamic Peripatetic Philosophy."

Society of Arab Music Research: "Finding the Multi-Fractals in Arab Music: A Computational Approach to Uncovering Mathematical Complexity in Musical Deep Structure."