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 FXB Center for Health & Human Rights, the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative, Religion and Public Life at Harvard Divinity School and the Middle East Forum, Center for Middle Eastern Studies are pleased to present

Dr. Lina Qasem Hassan
Physician and Chairperson, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel

Sahar Francis
Director General, Addameer Prisoner’s Support and Human Rights Association

Moderator: Randa Wahbe, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University

Register in advance here: https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a96lk7XymvIbhZA... Read more about The Embodiment of Protest: Hunger Strikes, Human Rights, and the Health of Palestinian Political Prisoners

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 CMES Middle East Forum is pleased to present

Mohammedwesam Amer
Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Researcher, Centre For Middle East Studies, Harvard University; Dean, Faculty of Mass Communication and Languages, Gaza University, Palestine... Read more about Hamas in Cyberspace: Social Media and New Forms of Political Expression

The Harvard Divinity School's Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative and the CMES Middle East Forum are pleased to present

Salem Al-Qudwa, RCPI Fellow and Architect in conversation with Sara Roy, Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3Hfb30P... Read more about The Troubled Everyday in/of Gaza: Restoring Agency and Creative Possibility

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Liora Halperin
Associate Professor of International Studies and History and Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Endowed Chair in Israel Studies, University of Washington

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3r1rb14​​​​​​​... Read more about The Oldest Guard: Landowners, Local Memory, and the Making of the Zionist Settler Past

The FXB Center for Health & Human Rights and the CMES Middle East Forum present

Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Professor and Chair in Law, Hebrew University-Jerusalem
Shaina Low, US Advocacy Officer, Defence for Children International-Palestine
Jumana Odeh, Director, Palestine Happy Child Center

Moderator: Jacqueline Bhabha, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3lhLqF1... Read more about Continuous Trauma: The State of Children's Health in the Palestinian Territory

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Rashid Khalidi
Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Department of History, Columbia University

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3AbqPat... Read more about The Latest Chapter in the Hundred Years War on Palestine

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar is pleased to present

Leila 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.

(Note: this event was originally scheduled for March 4)... Read more about France and Britain: Their Colonial Footprint in the Middle East