Law

2024 Mar 05

Book talk: "The United Nations and the Question of Palestine"

12:15pm to 1:15pm

Location: 

Wasserstein 1019, Harvard Law School

The Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School presents

Ardi Imseis
Assistant Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University, Canada

Join us as Professor Ardi Imseis discusses his new book on Palestine at the United Nations. Based on primary archival materials and the author’s first-hand experience as a UN Official in Palestine for over a decade,... Read more about Book talk: "The United Nations and the Question of Palestine"

2023 May 11

Examining Iran’s Domestic and Foreign Relations: From Achievements and Limitations of the Protest Movement to the Saudi-Iranian Agreement

5:00pm to 6:30pm

Location: 

On Zoom; registration info below

The CMES/WCFIA Middle East Seminar is pleased to present

Trita Parsi
Executive Vice President, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, and

Fatemeh Haghighatjoo
CEO, Nonviolent Initiative for Democracy and former member of the Iranian Parliament

DiscussantStephen Kinzer, Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University and author of All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror

This talk will take place on Zoom; please register in advance: https://bit.ly/3GTkwgS.
... Read more about Examining Iran’s Domestic and Foreign Relations: From Achievements and Limitations of the Protest Movement to the Saudi-Iranian Agreement

2023 Apr 04

Racial Transitions: Islam, Transitional Justice, and Morocco’s (Re)Africanization

1:30pm to 3:00pm

Location: 

On Zoom; registration info below

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present

Brahim El Guabli
Assistant Professor of Arabic Studies and Comparative Literature at Williams College

This talk will take place online; please register in advance on Zoom: https://bit.ly/3ZNWCdV... Read more about Racial Transitions: Islam, Transitional Justice, and Morocco’s (Re)Africanization

2023 Apr 13

A Reappraisal of the Nineteenth Century Constitutional Reforms in Tunisia: The Making of the 1857 Security Pact and its Legacies

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS Knafel 262, 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The CMES/WCFIA Middle East Seminar presents

Malika Zeghal
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and  Civilization at Harvard University

Discussant: Kristen A. Stilt, Professor of Law and also Faculty Director of the Animal Law & Policy Program and Director of the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World, Harvard Law School... Read more about A Reappraisal of the Nineteenth Century Constitutional Reforms in Tunisia: The Making of the 1857 Security Pact and its Legacies

2023 Mar 30

Jerusalem: Examining Settler Colonialism and Undoing Colonial Knowledge Production

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS Knafel 262, 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar is pleased to present

Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian 
Lawrence D Biele Chair in Law, Institute of Criminology-Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and Chair in Global Law, Queen Mary University of London

Discussant: M. Brinton Lykes, PhD, Professor of Community-Cultural Psychology and Co-Director of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice, Boston College

... Read more about Jerusalem: Examining Settler Colonialism and Undoing Colonial Knowledge Production

Sultan Alamer

The Arab and Muslim Evolution of "Deviance" in Homosexuality

June 24, 2022

In the Middle East, today’s understanding of gay relationships as abnormal or unnatural relies on concepts invented less than a century ago. In an essay in New Lines magazine, CMES Visiting Fellow Sultan Alamer, a political science doctoral student at George Washington University explores this complicated history. Read the full story on the New Lines website.

2022 Nov 17

*POSTPONED* Biden, Iran and the Nuclear Issue - Can the US-Iran Enmity be Buried?

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

TBD

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?

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