Join the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights, a partnership program between the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights and the Institute of Community and Public Health at Birzeit University, in conversation with

Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah

Register in advance here: https://harvard.zoom....

The Boston Turkish Arts & Culture Festival presents Caravaggio: The Painter's Rebellion in discussion with the author Gündüz Vassaf and Meryem Demir, preceptor in modern Turkish, CMES, Harvard University... Read more about Caravaggio: The Painter's Rebellion

The Center for MIddle Eastern Studies presents

Rashid Khalidi
Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Columbia University

Moderated by Rosie Bsheer, Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of History, Harvard University

**Open to Harvard ID holders only**... Read more about The Ongoing Nakba: Engaging Critically with Palestine

Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Renk Özdemir
Assistant Professor of International Relations at Hacettepe University; Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies... Read more about International Politics and the Redrawing of the Bulgaro-Turkish Frontier in the Year 1913

Israel-Hamas War? Tackling the Root Causes

with

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (occupied Palestinian territories)
Moderator: Chris Williams, Clinical Instructor, HLS

Registration required: https://bit.ly/3S8NZdn
 
Description: The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, Ms. Francesca Albanese, will be discussing the current situation in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory and the international legal implications of the events that unfolded since October 7.... Read more about Israel-Hamas War? Tackling the Root Causes

Join the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University for a conversation between the Palestine Program‘s inaugural fellow, Sawsan Abdulrahim, and Anne Irfan, to discuss her recent book Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee System...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Zeynep Tek 
Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies; Assistant Professor of Modern Turkish Literature, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University

... Read more about Oneiric Battles: Feminism and Anti-Feminism through Dream Allegories in Early 20th-Century Turkish Periodicals

The CMES Disaster Studies Initiative is pleased to present

Aleksandar Shopov
Visiting Scholar, CMES; Assistant Professor, History, SUNY Binghamton University... Read more about Chasing Floods: the Ottoman Introduction of Rice in the Balkan Peninsula

The CMES Disaster Studies Initiative is pleased to present

Elizabeth Reddy
Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering, Design, & Society and Department of Geophysics. Associate Director of the Humanitarian Engineering and Science Program, Colorado School of Mines... Read more about Life with Earthquakes: Environment, Technology, Society in a Technosolutionist Imaginary

The CMES New Works in Middle Eastern Studies series presents

José Ciro Martinez
Lecturer, Department of Politics, University of York... Read more about Book talk: "States of Subsistence: The Politics of Bread in Contemporary Jordan"

The CMES New Works in Middle Eastern Studies series presents

Alice Wilson
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology (Anthropology); Senior Lecturer in Anthropology (International Development), School of Global Studies, University of Sussex... Read more about Book talk: "Afterlives of Revolution: Everyday Counterhistories in Southern Oman"

The Mahindra Re-thinking Translation seminar presents

Politics of Fiction and Translation: The Last Pomegranate Tree - A conversation with Kurdish novelist Bachtyar Ali, his translator Kareem Abdulrahman... Read more about Politics of Fiction and Translation: "The Last Pomegranate Tree" - A conversation with Kurdish novelist Bachtyar Ali, his translator Kareem Abdulrahman

The Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program presents

Amina Elbendary
Shawwaff Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

RSVP Here... Read more about Lives and Miracles: Narratives of Medieval Coptic and Muslim saints

The CMES Disaster Studies Initiative presents

Nasser Rabbat
Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture,  MIT... Read more about The 'Khitat' of al-Maqrizi: Narrating History on the Tempo of 'Kharab'

The CMES Disaster Studies Initiative is pleased to present

Saptarishi Bandopadhyay
Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University... Read more about The Conservation of Catastrophe: An Agenda for Research