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Congratulations 2025-26 CMES Graduates!

CMES is pleased to congratulate this year's graduating students in our AM and joint PhD programs.

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CMES commencement reception, May 2025
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Congratulations, 2025-26 CMES Graduates!
CMES is pleased to congratulate this year's graduating students in our AM and joint PhD programs. AM Graduates Arda Aslan Ida Beckett—Thesis: "'They Burnt My Beloved as If He Were Wood': The Origins, Treatment, and Entangled Characters of Coffee and...
CMES commencement reception, May 2025

Professor Walid Khalidi: A Reflection

On March 8, 2026, Walid Khalidi died at the age of 100, and with his death we have lost one of the foremost scholars of modern Middle Eastern history. Throughout his century of life—and for over 80 consistent years of work—Professor Khalidi, who was a...
Walid Khalidi, left

Call for "Historical Truth" in Our Narrative of Nazi Defeat
On April 23, Jochen Hellbeck, Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University, delivered the 2026 Hilda B. Silverman Memorial Lecture at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. In a revisionist history of WWII, Hellbeck argues that it was not the...
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Recent Books by Faculty & Alumni

2025

Provoking the Territory: Bernard Khoury
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The third installment in the Dongola Architecture Series, Provoking the Territory: Bernard Khoury, explores the provocative and often polarizing practice of Lebanese architect Bernard Khoury through an intimate lens rooted in Beirut. As with previous...

MK Harb

Provoking the Territory: Bernard Khoury

Landscape Is...! Essays on the Meaning of Landscape

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Landscape Is...! examines the implicit biases and received meanings of landscape. Following on from the previous publication Is Landscape…? which examined the plural and promiscuous identities of the landscape idea, this companion volume reflects upon the...

Gareth Doherty,  Charles Waldheim

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Landscape Fieldwork: How Engaging the World Can Change Design
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Landscape architecture is at a crossroads. The ability to draw upon interdisciplinary perspectives and generate insights from the combined vantage points of design, environmental studies, and the social sciences puts it in a prime position to address the...

Gareth Doherty

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Recent Dissertations & Theses

2024

Çakmakcı, Eda. “Mediterraneanizing Turkey: Gateways to Regional Agrarian Transformation”. History and MES. Harvard University, 2024.
Çakmakcı, Eda. “Mediterraneanizing Turkey: Gateways to Regional Agrarian Transformation”. History and MES. Harvard University, 2024.
Abu-Hussein, Tarek. “Worlds Apart in the Ottoman World: Islamic Education in Bilād Al-Shām and Bilād Al-Rūm 1530-1650”. History and MES. Harvard University, 2024.
Abu-Hussein, Tarek. “Worlds Apart in the Ottoman World: Islamic Education in Bilād Al-Shām and Bilād Al-Rūm 1530-1650”. History and MES. Harvard University, 2024.
Patton, Maryam. “Guarding Against Heedlessness: Time and Temporality Among the Early Ottomans”. History and MES.
Patton, Maryam. “Guarding Against Heedlessness: Time and Temporality Among the Early Ottomans”. History and MES.
Tersmette, Keye. “Marginal Inclusion: The Omani Border Towns Outside Oman”. Anthropology and MES.
Tersmette, Keye. “Marginal Inclusion: The Omani Border Towns Outside Oman”. Anthropology and MES.
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