The CMES & WCFIA Middle East Seminar presents

Michelle Bradford
International Development Professional & Former Team Leader for multi-donor funded stabilization programming in Syria, US Department of State and UK Department for International Development

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3imzbVl​​​​​​​... Read more about From Policy to Practice: A Critical Review of United States Government Stabilization Efforts in Syria

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Liora Halperin
Associate Professor of International Studies and History and Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Endowed Chair in Israel Studies, University of Washington

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3r1rb14​​​​​​​... Read more about The Oldest Guard: Landowners, Local Memory, and the Making of the Zionist Settler Past

The WCFIA & CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Martha Myers
International and Humanitarian Development Assistance Professional & Former Chief of Party, Iraqi Durable Communities and Economic Opportunity Project, United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Register in advance:  https://bit.ly/3t2ih3h​​​​​​​​​​​​​​... Read more about The Fractured Iraqi Community: Rethinking Development

The WCFIA & CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Carol R. Saivetz, Ph.D.
Senior Advisor, MIT Security Studies Program; Research Associate, Davis Center, Harvard University

Discussant: Mark N. Katz, Ph.D., Professor of Government and Politics, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3u5Livx​​​​​​​... Read more about Can Russia Manage its New Role in the Middle East?

The WCFIA & CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Asher Orkaby, Ph.D.
Associate Research Scholar, Transregional Institute, Princeton University

Discussant: Afrah Nasser, Yemen Researcher, Human Rights Watch

** PLEASE NOTE: this talk will now take place from 2-3:30pm ET **

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3rRpK5Q... Read more about The Political Economy of Humanitarian Aid in Yemen: Benefit or Detriment?

The WCFIA & CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Frederic Wehrey, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow, Middle East Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3tVTmAw​​​​​​​... Read more about What Went Wrong in Libya? Foreign Meddling and Local Agency in Libya's Civil Wars

Friends of Hrant Dink and CMES are proud to present the 2022 Speaker of the Hrant Dink Lectures in International Human Rights

Ayşe Buğra
Professor Emerita of Political Economy, Boğaziçi University

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3nnrnpe... Read more about Thinking about Poverty and Equality from the Perspective of Human Rights

CMES & WCFIA present the Middle East Seminar with

Nicholas Danforth, Ph.D.
Senior Non-Resident Fellow, The Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy  (ELIAMEP)

Discussant: Dr. Jesse Howell, Academic Programs Manager and Associate Director of the MA Program, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/338W9Lz... Read more about Misunderstanding Mid-Century Turkey: Ottomania, Academia and the rise of Erdogan

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Tuğba Bozçağa
Lecturer in Politics (Political Methodology), King's College London; Fellow, Harvard University Middle East Initiative

Discussant: Aytuğ Şaşmaz, Post-doctoral fellow, Stanford Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law

Due to illness, this event has been cancelled. It will be rescheduled for spring semester.
... Read more about CANCELLED: Education, Nation-Building, and Minority Groups in Turkey

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a conversation moderated by Cemal Kafadar with

Lauren Stokes
Assistant Professor of History, Northwestern University

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/31IYcF3... Read more about On Guest Workers, Migrants, and Germans of Turkish Descent: Reflections on the Occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the German-Turkish Recruitment Agreement

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a panel discussion with

Anna Ohanyan
Richard B. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of International Relations, Stonehill College

Cengiz Aktar
Adjunct professor of political science, University of Athens

Vicken Cheterian
Lecturer in history and international relations, University of Geneva

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3F6ZzM6​​​​​​​​​​​​​​... Read more about Armenia and Turkey (non)-relations: Can peace break out after the war in Nagorno Karabakh?

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Carmen Geha
Visiting Fellow, Weatherhead Center For International Affairs, Harvard University; Associate Professor of Public Administration, Department of Political Studies and Public Administration; Founding Member, Center for Inclusive Business and Leadership (CIBL) for Women, American University of Beirut

Discussant: Rami G. Khouri, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School; Director of Global Engagement and Adjunct Visiting Professor of Journalism, American University of Beirut

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/2YcKTLU​​​​​​​... Read more about Implosion and Collapse: Lebanese Women in Revolution, Civil Resistance, and Reconstruction