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Upcoming Events

2024 Apr 08

Book talk: "Stranger in My Own Land: Palestine, Israel and One Family's Story of Home"

1:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

On Zoom; registration info below

The HDS Religion, Conflict and Peace Initiative presents a book talk with

Fida Jiryis
Palestinian writer and editor

Moderator: Sara Roy, Associate of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies

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Amid Violence in the Middle East, Palestinian American Poet Shares Work at Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies

October 25, 2023

Lisa Suhair Majaj — an author and scholar of Arab American Literature — shared a collection of her poems at a Tuesday event at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Majaj, who was born in America and grew up in Jordan, shared 17 of her poems chronicling her life as a Palestinian American. Speaking to an audience of more than 30 people, she acknowledged the difficulty of the subject matter amidst the violence unfolding in Israel and Palestine....

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MESA Board Statement on Palestine and Israel

October 17, 2023

The Executive Committee of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies endorses the October 16, 2023, statement by the Board of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) condemning the killing of all civilians in Palestine and Israel. The statement asserts that there is no military solution to the conflict and supports "a political solution that offers safety, dignity, and equal rights for Palestinians and Israelis." It also called on universities to "affirmatively assert and protect the right to academic freedom and freedom of speech on their campuses" amidst heightened incidents of violence...

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Professor Herbert C. Kelman, A Life

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On September 16, at the Memorial Church of Harvard University, a memorial service was held for Herbert C. Kelman, whose 54 year career at Harvard, most recently as the Richard Clarke Cabot Research Professor of Social Ethics, came to a close when Kelman passed away peacefully on March 1 at age 94. One of the speakers at the memorial was CMES alumnus Philip S. Khoury (History and Middle East Studies PhD '80), Ford International Professor of History and Associate Provost at MIT, who delivered the following tribute to his long-time friend.

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