2015-16

Center for Middle Eastern Studies faculty affiliate Jocelyne Cesari, a visiting professor of Religion and Politics at the Harvard Divinity School, discussed the politicization of Islam by the Islamic State at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies on...

The Harvard Gazette talks with Cambridge-based political sociologist and photojournalist Randy H. Goodman about her exhibit Iran: Women Only, a comparison of Iranian womanhood in the early 1980s with the present. After openings at MIT and Harvard’s Gutman...

We often regard print as a motor of social change, leaving revolutions in its wake. For historians of the Middle East, this line of thought leads to the (predictable) question: why didn’t Muslims or Ottomans or Arabs adopt print? In a new episode of the...

CMES is pleased to congratulate this year's graduating class of twelve students who earned a master's degree in Regional Studies—Middle East and its graduating PhD students. AM graduates and thesis titles Hind Al-Ansari Wadah Al Shugaa “The Race for the...

Irene Gendzier, Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, Boston University, delivers the 2016 Hilda B. Silverman Memorial Lecture. Read Gendzier's lecture.

Iranian human-rights activist Shirin Ebadi, the first Muslim woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, spoke at First Parish Church in Harvard Square on March 17. The event, co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Harvard Book Store, coincided...

Caitlin Schiffer, a reporter for BUTV10, Boston University's television station, produced this video piece about the April 16-17 performances of Feathers of Fire, a groundbreaking cinematic shadow play based on the Persian epic Shahnemeh (The Book of...