Turkey in the Modern World & The Middle East Seminar are pleased to present

Martha Myers
Country Director, Save The Children-Syria Response... Read more about Working Across the Turkish border in Syria: Drinking from the Humanitarian Fire Hose

The Middle East Seminar is pleased to present

Dr. Robert Rabil
Professor of Political Science, Florida Atlantic University... Read more about Salafism in Lebanon: From Apoliticism to Transnational Jihadism

The Middle East Seminar is pleased to present

Dr. Yoram Peri
Abraham S. and Jack Kay Chair in Israel Studies, Director of the Joseph B. and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israeli Studies, University of Maryland, College Park... Read more about What about Gaza: The War that Both Sides Lost

The Middle East Seminar is pleased to present

Dr. Gary Sick
Executive Director, Gulf 2000, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs, Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University... Read more about Iran: Where Do We Go from Here?

The Middle East Seminar is pleased to present

Husam Zomlot
Executive Deputy, Fatah International Affairs Committee & Professor of Strategic Studies, Birzeit University... Read more about Palestinian Strategy After Kerry and the War on Gaza: A Way Forward (DATE CHANGE)

Turkey in the Modern World is pleased to present

Kemal Kirisci
TUSIAD Senior Fellow, Center on US & Europe Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC... Read more about EU-Turkish relations in tough times: Could upgrading the customs union become a means to reviving EU-Turkish relations?

The Middle East Seminar is pleased to present

Dr. Laurie Brand
Robert Grandford Wright Professor of International Relations, Professor of Middle East Studies, University of Southern California... Read more about Jordan and the Politics of National Narratives: Current challenges in historical perspective

CMES is pleased to present Roger Owen, AJ Meyer Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus, Department of History, as he leads a discussion on the chaos in the MENA region, with a focus on the process of events since the Arab Uprisings of 2011.... Read more about Struggle, Competition and Chaos in the Contemporary Arab Middle East and North Africa

The Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series is pleased to present

Zeynep Kezer
Aga Khan Program Post-Doctoral Fellow at MIT... Read more about DATE CHANGE: Encounters with the Nation-State: Geography, Identity and Violence in Eastern Turkey

The Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program and the Outreach Program at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies present a lecture and demonstration by

Dr. Hamidreza Ghelichkhani... Read more about Contemporary Calligraphy in Iran: The Techniques and Characteristics of the Nasta‘liq Script

Esty G. Hayim
Author; Teaches creative writing at Seminar Hakibutzim College, Israel... Read more about "I have no mother tongue, only my adopted language is my home"

The CMES Director's Series is pleased to present

Mai Al-Nakib
Associate Professor, Department of English Language & Literature, Graduate Program in Comparative Literary & Cultural Studies, College of Arts, Kuwait University... Read more about The Hidden Light of Objects (book talk)

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies Outreach Program is pleased to present an author talk by

Lara Deeb
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Scripps College... Read more about Book Launch & Author Talk: Lara Deeb and Mona Harb, "Leisurely Islam: Negotiating Geography and Morality in Shi’ite South Beirut"

Turkey in the Modern World is pleased to present

Dr. Tuncay Babali
Ambassador of Turkey to Canada; former WCFIA Fellow... Read more about Turkish Politics, Energy Politics: Near and Long Term Perspectives

Turkey in the Modern World and The Boston University Campagna-Kerven Lecture Series are pleased to present

Dr. Ayse Kadioglu
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul... Read more about On Memory and Democracy: Skeletons in the Turkish Closet