The Harvard Kennedy School Middle East Initiative and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies present

Philippe Fargues
Professor, Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute; Associate, Harvard Kennedy School.... Read more about Population, Generation and Nation: Understanding the Arab World Through Demography

The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, the Middle East Initiative, HKS, and the CMES Middle East Forum present

Martha Meyers
MENA Operations Director, ARK Group... Read more about LOCATION CHANGE: Whose Narrative is it? Supporting Moderate Voices in the Syrian Conflict

The CMES Middle East Forum and the Middle East Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School present

A book talk with authors
Nader Hashemi, Director, Center for Middle East Studies and Associate Professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics, Josef Korbel School of Int'l Studies, University of Denver,
Danny Postel, Assistant Director, Middle East and North African Studies Program, Northwestern University
Paul Gabriel Hilu Pinto, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil... Read more about Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a talk in Arabic

Zeinab Taha
Associate Professor Arabic Linguistics, Department of Arabic Language (former Arabic Language Institute), The American University of Cairo... Read more about Talk in Arabic: Egyptian Clothes between Religious Ideology and Social Change

The Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Aga Khan Fund, & the Association for Central Asian Civilizations & Silk Road Studies

Dr. Michael Barry
Princeton University

When Alexander reached India in 326 BC, connecting Greek and Indian civilizations, austere Brahmins predicted his inevitable death despite all the king’s victories and attempts to be regarded as divine; by the time Alexander returned to Babylon where he died in 323 BC,...

Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Department of History present a workshop organized by Roger Owen

This workshop aims to historicize violent conflicts in the states of the Post-Mandate territories and to understand the Arabic terminology of violence in a trans-temporal and trans-national framework.... Read more about Fitna: Civil War or Sectarian Conflict? Understanding Political Violence Within the Post-Mandate Arab States

The CMES Director's Series presents

Richard Nielsen
Assistant Professor of Political Science, MIT

Richard Nielsen is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at MIT. He completed his PhD (Government) and AM (Statistics) at Harvard...

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Joseph Sassoon
Associate Professor and Al-Sabah Chair in Politics and Political Economy, Georgetown University... Read more about Violence in the Arab Authoritarian Republics

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a panel on migration and health care featuring Elizabeth H. Shlala, Saime Ozcurumez, and Lloy Wylie... Read more about Migration and Health Care Panel Discussion

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents

James Dorsey
Senior Fellow, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore Nanyang Technological University, co-director of the Institute of Culture, University of Wuerzburg... Read more about The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer

The Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World presents

Soner Cagaptay
Bayer Family Fellow and Director, Turkish Research Institute, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy... Read more about Turkish Foreign Policy Between the Syrian Civil War and Russia

The CMES Middle East Forum and the HKS Middle East Initiative present

Mouin Rabbani
Senior fellow, Institute for Palestinian Studies; independent analyst specializing in Palestinian affairs & the Arab-Israeli conflict
... Read more about Fail Better: The United Nations and Syria