In 2025, the University of Washington’s Middle East Center established a lecture series to honor, educate, and reflect on the memory and activism of Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi. The inaugural lecture on January 27 featured Dr. Emek Ergun, a scholar of Women’s and Gender Studies and Global Studies at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and author of Virgin Crossing Borders: Feminist Resistance and Solidarity in Translation. 

The second lecture, on March 4, was delivered by Dr. Nicole Watts, professor of political science at San Francisco State University and author of Republic of Dreams: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Struggles, and the Future of Iraqi Kurdistan. The final lecture of the 2024-25 academic year took place on June 2, featuring Dr. Mediha Sorma, PhD in Feminist Studies from the University of Washington, whose research explores Kurdish feminist praxis, motherhood, and insurgency through a decolonial lens.  

In April 2026, UW unjustifiably removed Middle East Center Director Aria Fani after he criticized Zionism in two anti-war emails sent to the Center’s listserv, challenging the political ideology underpinning genocidal actions that serve UW’s financial interests. The lecture series now lives off campus on the streets of Seattle, in its bookstores, public squares, and cafes. 

Our first event off campus was a book reading on June 2, 2026 at Third Place Books which welcomed author Hannah Moushabeck in its Lake Forest Park store for a conversation about her picture book Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine: a moving, beautifully illustrated story of a family keeping their home alive in memory. Organized by Amelia Ossorio, a warm reception for Hannah took place the following day at Mintish Café, where Ayşenur's husband, Hamid Ali, her friends and peers met and conversed with Hannah about challenges that she had faced and overcome as a Palestinian in the world of publishing.