The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present

Women in Iran: An Evening of Films by Rakhshan Banietemad with

Naghmeh Sohrabi
Charles (Corky) Goodman Professor of Middle East History and the Director for Research at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University, and

Ramyar Rossoukh
Assistant Director for Research at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University
... Read more about Women in Iran: An Evening of Films by Rakhshan Banietemad

The CMES/WCFIA Middle East Seminar presents

Dr. Jillian Schwedler
Professor of Political Science, City University of New York's Hunter College and CUNY's Graduate Center; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Crown Center, Brandeis University

Discussant: Molly Hickey, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University... Read more about Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent

The Harvard Divinity School Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative is pleased to welcome

Leila Farsakh
Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Massachusetts, Boston

Maha Nassar
Associate Professor, Modern Middle East History, Islamic Studies at University of Arizona

Susan Akram
Clinical Professor of Law, Boston University

Moderated by: Rabea Eghbariah, RCPI Topol Fellow

Register on Zoom here: https://bit.ly/3TpG9ZY​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
... Read more about Book event: "Rethinking Statehood in Palestine: Self-Determination and Decolonization beyond Partition"

The Harvard Radcliffe Institute presents

Hannah Darabi
Artist and photographer

Naghmeh Sohrabi
Charles (Corky) Goodman Chair in Middle East History, Brandeis University... Read more about Woman, Life, Freedom: Iran’s Women-Led Protests in Context

CMES, WCFIA, WIGH and the Department of Sociology are pleased to present

Lilian Thuram
French author and former professional footballer... Read more about Book talk: "White Thinking: Behind the Mask of Racial Identity"

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present

Natalia Gutkowski
Postdoctoral scholar, The Society of Fellows, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Moderator: Steven Caton, Khalid Bin Abdullah Bin Abdulrahman Al Saud Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University... Read more about Viruses Remaking Borders? Unwanted Organisms in Palestine/Israel from Covid-19 to Climate Change

The CMES Middle East Forum, Harvard University, and the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative, Religion and Public Life, Harvard Divinity School present a tour of the newly released book

Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire 

with contributors

Asmaa AbuMezied: author of "Lost Identity: The Tale of Peasantry and Nature," and,

Yousef Aljamal: author of "Travel Restrictions as a Manifestation of Nakba: Gaza, the Path Backward is the Path Forward"

Jehad Abusalim, co-editor and author of the introduction to Light in Gaza, will provide concluding remarks... Read more about Book talk: "Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire"

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Basileus Zeno
Sessional Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, York University

Discussant: Rami Khouri, Director of Global Engagement and Senior Public Policy Fellow, American University of Beirut; and Nonresident Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School 

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3hOyHds​​​​​​​
... Read more about The Responsibility to Protect and What it Means: The Case of Libya and Syria (on Zoom only)

This event has been postponed.

The WCFIA and CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Trita Parsi
Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

Discussant: Stephen Kinzer, Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University; Author, All the Shah's Men, and former New York Times correspondent... Read more about *POSTPONED* Biden, Iran and the Nuclear Issue - Can the US-Iran Enmity be Buried?

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar is pleased to present

Toby Matthiesen
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow, Ca’ Foscari University and Visiting Fellow at the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford University

Discussant: Sultan Alamer, Visiting Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University... Read more about Saudi Arabia and the World: From the Cold War to MBS

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar is pleased to present

Ersin Kalaycıoğlu
Professor Emeritus, Sabancı University, Istanbul

Discussant: Soli Ozel, Senior Lecturer, Kadir Has University, Istanbul
... Read more about Competitive Elections in a Hybrid Case