2015-16

2016 Mar 28

TIME CHANGE: Schooling the State: A Transnational History of Public Education and Governance in the 20th century Middle East

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Hilary Falb-Kalisman
Visiting Post-doctoral Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies

PLEASE NOTE: this talk will now take place at 12:00 pm.
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2016 Mar 23

Oman, Zanzibar, and the Politics of Becoming Arab

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

William James Hall, Room B1, 33 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA

The CMES Arabian Peninsula Studies Lecture Series presents

Mandana Limbert
Associate Professor, Anthropology, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY

Mandana Limbert is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She received her PhD in Anthropology and Near Eastern Studies from the University of Michigan in 2002 and joined CUNY the same year. Her publications include her monograph In the Time of Oil (Stanford University Press, 2010), a co-edited volume Timely Assets (School of...

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2016 Apr 16

Feathers of Fire

3:00pm to 4:30pm

Location: 

Fitzgerald Theatre, Cambridge Rindge & Latin School, Cambridge, MA

Feathers of Fire: A Persian Epic is a visually breathtaking cinematic shadow play for all ages. CMES will host four ticketed performances:

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