Iraq

2024 Apr 25

Book talk: "Disenchanting the Caliphate: The Secular Discipline of Power in Abbasid Political Thought"

5:00pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The CMES Director's Series presents a book talk with

Hayrettin Yücesoy
Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies (JIMES); Director of Graduate Studies; Resident Faculty Fellow at the Center for the Humanities (Spring 2024), Washington University, St Louis

Please note: this talk now starts at 5pm.

Discussants: Cemil Aydin, Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and

Huseyin Yilmaz, Associate Professor, History and History of Art, George Mason University

Cengiz Sisman, Professor of History, University of Houston

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2023 Oct 02

Politics of Fiction and Translation: "The Last Pomegranate Tree" - A conversation with Kurdish novelist Bachtyar Ali, his translator Kareem Abdulrahman

12:15pm

Location: 

Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The Mahindra Re-thinking Translation seminar presents

Politics of Fiction and Translation: The Last Pomegranate Tree - A conversation with Kurdish novelist Bachtyar Ali, his translator Kareem Abdulrahman... Read more about Politics of Fiction and Translation: "The Last Pomegranate Tree" - A conversation with Kurdish novelist Bachtyar Ali, his translator Kareem Abdulrahman

2023 Apr 16

The Modern Assyrian Historical Record: An American Family Adventure

3:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present

Eden Naby
Independent Scholar

This talk is one of the events related to the exhibit now on view at CMES: Assyrians from Persia (Iran)to the United States, 1887-1923: Assyrian Education, American Missionaries and the Search for a Home.... Read more about The Modern Assyrian Historical Record: An American Family Adventure

2023 Apr 12

Exhibit: Assyrians from Persia (Iran) to the United States, 1887-1923: Assyrian Education, American Missionaries and the Search for a Home

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Location: 

CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The Naby Frye Assyrian Fund for Culture, the Assyrian Foundation of America, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, are pleased to present the exhibit

Assyrians from Persia (Iran) to the United States, 1887-1923: Assyrian Education, American Missionaries and the Search for a Home

Please note: This exhibit is open Monday-Thursday, 9am-5pm.

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2023 Mar 30

Paintings from the Private Houses of Abbasid Samarra: A Reassessment

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location: 

485 Broadway, Lower Auditorium, Cambridge

CMES and the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University present a talk with

Fatma Dahmani
Harvard AKPIA Fellow, Assistant Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, University of Qayrawan, Tunisia

Fatma Dahmani is a historian of Islamic art and architecture specializing in the early Islamic period and she is currently an AKPIA Fellow at Harvard University. She holds a PhD in history of art from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, and has been Assistant Professor of History...

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New Horizons in Kurdish History Lecture Series

July 18, 2022

In the last decade, Kurdish history has become an exciting arena of scholarly inquiry in Ottoman and Middle Eastern studies. Showcasing this emerging literature was the main goal of the New Horizons in Kurdish History lecture series that Cemal Kafadar, Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies, and I organized for spring 2022. Professor Kafadar and I initially formed the idea in his basement office at Robinson Hall during one of our regular meetings in fall 2021, when I worked as a Teaching Fellow for his Ottoman history survey course. Over the course of the semester, we brainstormed about...

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2022 Mar 10

The Fractured Iraqi Community: Rethinking Development

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Online (registration info below)

The WCFIA & CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Martha MyersMartha 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)

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2021 Sep 09

Kleptocracy, Militias and the October Revolution: the Iraqi State Between Sectarianism and Democracy

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Online (use Zoom link below to register)

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Eric Davis, Ph.D.Eric Davis
Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University

Discussant: Muhamed Almaliky, M.D., Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Director, Iraqi American Institute; Physician, University of Pennsylvania Health System

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3kkLrpV

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2021 Apr 01

France and Britain: Their Colonial Footprint in the Middle East

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Online (Zoom registration link below)

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar is pleased to present

Leila FawazLeila Fawaz
Issam M. Fares Professor of Lebanese and Eastern Mediterranean Studies at the Fletcher School and Department of History at Tufts University

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3caLpy1.

Please note that this event will begin at 4:30pm Eastern Daylight Time. If you live outside the US, please double-check the time difference.

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2021 Feb 17

Book talk: Foreign Donor Assistance and the Political Economy of Marginalization and Inclusion in Palestine, Iraq and El Salvador

12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Onilne (Zoom link below)

The CMES Middle East Forum presents a book talk with

Manal A. Jamal
Professor of Political Science, James Madison University

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2020 Nov 05

How the US Turned Iraq into Iran’s Client State: The Unintended Consequences of a Myopic Foreign Policy

4:30pm to 6:00pm

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online webinar (registration link below)

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Henry MunsonHenry Munson
Professor of Anthropology Emeritus and Cooperating Professor, School of Policy & International Affairs, University of Maine; author, Islam and Revolution in the Middle East

Rescheduled from April 2020.

Register: https://bit.ly/3jZPvKM.

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