The Center for Middle Eastern Studies present

Jocelyne Cesari
Chair of Religion and Politics, University of Birmingham, UK; Senior research fellow, Georgetown University’s Berkley Center on Religion, Peace and World Affairs; Visiting Professor of Religion and Politics and Associate, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, director, interfaculty program Islam in the West, Harvard University... Read more about What is Islamic in the Islamic State?

The Middle East Forum presents

Karam Dana
Assistant Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington; Director, American Muslim Research Institute... Read more about Islamophobia in America: Empirical Evidence and Beyond

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Jessica Stern
Fellow, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Research Professor, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University; co-author of ISIS: The State of Terror... Read more about Terror in the Name of God

The CMES Director's Series and the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program present

Umar Ryad
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Utrecht University.... Read more about Muslims in Europe in the Interwar Years: A Trans-cultural Perspective

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Mateo Farzaneh
Assistant Professor of History of the Islamic World and Modern Middle East, Northeastern Illinois University-Chicago... Read more about Book talk: Shi'ite Clerics and Political Modernization in Iran

CMES is pleased to present the 2015 H.A.R. Gibb Arabic & Islamic Studies Lecture Series with

Robert Wisnovsky
James McGill Professor, Islamic philosophy and theology, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University... Read more about H.A.R. Gibb Lecture: Muhammad ʿAbduh's Metaphysics in Context (LOCATION CHANGE)

CMES is pleased to present the 2015 H.A.R. Gibb Arabic & Islamic Studies Lecture Series with

Robert Wisnovsky
James McGill Professor, Islamic philosophy and theology, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University... Read more about H.A.R. Gibb Lecture: Avicenna and Avicennism

The Sohbet-i "Turki" Seminar Series presents

Saadet Yuksel
Assistant Professor, Istanbul Law School... Read more about The Clash Between Free Exercise of Religion and Laicism Within the Turkish Legal System

The Sohbet-i Osmani Seminar Series presents the a panel of three papers from CMES Visiting Researchers

... Read more about Panel of Three Papers from the CMES Visiting Scholars

The Middle East Forum and The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program present

Deena R. Hurwitz
Professor, General Faculty and director, International Human Rights Law Clinic, University of Virginia School of Law... Read more about Gender Justice & Islamic Jurisprudence – Human Reasoning and the Rule of Law – A case study of inheritance in Palestine (West Bank)