2013-14

Naghmeh Sohrabi is the Charles (Corky) Goodman Professor of Middle East History and the Associate Director for Research at the Crown Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University. She completed her PhD in History and Middle East Studies at CMES...

Chloe Safier works for Oxfam International where she is the Gender Justice Coordinator. She graduated with an AM in Middle Eastern Studies in 2010. What brought you to CMES and to an AM in Middle Eastern Studies? While I was an undergraduate at Wesleyan...

Kyle McEneaney graduated with an AM in Middle Eastern Studies in 2007. Since graduating he has worked in consulting and investment banking, specializing in Iraq’s emerging economy. He is currently based in Dubai and works with an Iraqi group of companies...

On September 5, Professors Tarek Masoud, of Harvard Kennedy School, and Roger Owen, from the Department of History, along with graduate student Sarah Moawad, who recently returned to campus after several weeks in Egypt, discussed that country's recent...

Presentations in English with Arabic recitations. Presented by the CMES Working Group on Middle East Literature in Transition: New Frontiers in the 21st Century. "Mahmud Qabadu: Poet of the Islamic Nahda in XIXth-century Tunisia," Youssef Ben Ismail...

Adam Shatz, contributing editor at the London Review of Books and a visiting professor at the Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University, delivers the 2014 Hilda B. Silverman Memorial Lecture. Read Adam Shatz's "Writers or...

Sherman A. Jackson, King Faisal Chair in Islamic Thought and Culture and Professor of Religion and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, delivers the second lecture of the Fall 2013 H.A.R. Gibb Arabic and Islamic Studies...

Sherman A. Jackson, King Faisal Chair in Islamic Thought and Culture and Professor of Religion and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, delivers the first lecture of the Fall 2013 H.A.R. Gibb Arabic and Islamic Studies...

Recognizing the value in thoughtful and comprehensive research and analysis of Iran’s important role in the world, as well as its rich and diverse history, CMES is pleased to announce a new Iranian studies programming initiative. This programming, made...