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2015 Oct 09

Symposium on Gallipoli 1915

9:15am to 5:30pm

Location: 

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

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a one-day Symposium to mark the centenary of the Gallipoli 1915 Campaign

As part of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies’ program of commemorating the various centenaries associated with the First World War in the Middle East – a conflict as murderous and bloody as that in western Europe – CMES will hold a one-day symposium on the Battle of Gallipoli in 1915. This event will include a panel of discussion by several American-based experts in late Ottoman History as well as two Ottoman historians from Germany and from Turkey.

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2015 Sep 24

Iran, Israel, the Middle East, and the U.S. Where Do We Go From Here?

7:00pm to 9:00pm

Location: 

Emerson Hall 105, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138

The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and Harvard Hillel present a Weinstein Forum conversation featuring

Gary Samore, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (formerly of United Nations Against Nuclear Iran)
Jeremy Burton, Greater Boston Jewish Community Relations Council
Brooke Kantor ’14, Institute for the Study of War
Jim Sebenius, the Program on Negotiation, Harvard Business School... Read more about Iran, Israel, the Middle East, and the U.S. Where Do We Go From Here?

2015 Sep 17

New Visions and Strategies for an Israeli-Palestinian Peace

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA

The Middle East Seminar presents

Hilik Bar, Member of the Israeli Knesset and Secretary-General of the Labor Party and,
Husam Zomlot, Ambassador-at-Large, Palestine

Moderated by Gudrun Kramer, Head of the Program Supporting Palestinian Refugees, German Association for International Cooperation... Read more about New Visions and Strategies for an Israeli-Palestinian Peace

2015 Sep 10

HMECA Book Sale

Thu - Fri, Sep 10 to Sep 11, 10:00am - 4:00pm

Location: 

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

The Harvard Middle East Cultural Association (HMECA) invites you to its Annual Book Sale & Fundraiser.

Stop by CMES, Room 102, on September 10 & 11 from 10:00am to 4:00pm to support HMECA and add some books and journal issues to your collection (approx. $1-$5 each).

All books have been generously donated by CMES community members.

Contact: Finn Quigley
Sponsor: Harvard Middle East Cultural Association

2015 Sep 09

Being an Armenian intellectual of Turkey in 21st Century: Life and Death of Hrant Dink

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS Knafel 262, 1737 Cambridge St, MA 02138

The Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World presents

Tuba Çandar
Journalist and Writer, author of Hrant. Forthcoming in English as Hrant Dink: An Armenian Voice of the Voiceless in Turkey, Transaction Publishers.

Contact: Liz Flanagan
Sponsors: Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Center for Middle Eastern Studies

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