The 2019 Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture, "Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad in Conversation with Jennifer Leaning," took place on April 3 at the Memorial Church at Harvard. Nadia Murad is the corecipient of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, and is a leading advocate for survivors of genocide and sexual violence. Murad’s peaceful life was savagely interrupted in 2014 when Daesh attacked her homeland in Sinjar, with the intention of ethnically cleansing Iraq of all Yazidis. Like many minority groups, the Yazidis have carried the weight of historical persecution. Women in particular...

Brian Klug, Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy, St. Benet's Hall, University of Oxford, delivers the 2018 Hilda B. Silverman Memorial Lecture.... Read more about Video: “If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem”: The Use and Abuse of Jewish Memory

Nasser Rabbat, Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, MIT, delivers the first lecture of the 2018 H.A.R. Gibb Arabic and Islamic Studies Lecture Series. Also see a video of Rabbat's second lecture in the series, and read Meredyth Winter's coverage of both talks.... Read more about Video: The Historian and the City Between Ibn Khaldun and al-Maqrizi

Martha Myers, former Country Director, Save the Children—Syria, delivers the 2017 Hilda B. Silverman Memorial Lecture.... Read more about Video: "No Place to Raise a Daughter": My Life and Work in the Middle East—A Woman’s Perspective