"The Ascendant Field: Critical Engagements with Ottoman Arabic Literature," edited by Ghayde Ghraowi and Hacı Osman Gündüz (Ozzy), a special issue of Philological Encounters 7, no. 3-4, is now available from Brill. The issue grew out of a workshop that Ghayde, PhD candidate in Arabic humanities in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale, and our own Ozzy Gündüz, PhD candidate in...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University is seeking a highly motivated student to join a grant-funded digital archive project about the history of the Arabian Peninsula. A successful applicant for this position will be a skilled Flask Developer who is competent at writing Python code and has the knowledge to design and implement code using the Flask framework. The ideal candidate should be able to write modular, performant, and clean code; write unit testing with Python libraries to verify that the functionality of the application is correct; and acquire effective...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is seeking highly motivated students to join a grant-funded digital archive project on the history of the Middle East. A successful applicant for this position will be fluent in Arabic and have a demonstrated ability to read and understand eighteenth- to nineteenth-century Arabic chronicles. The student will primarily work on enhancing the performance of the project’s Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tool through verifying the accuracy of its rendered text contents against an original source material. The student will perform all administrative...

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.

I knew Herb Kelman for more...