2017-18

Nasser Rabbat, Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, MIT, delivers the second lecture of the 2018 H.A.R. Gibb Arabic and Islamic Studies Lecture Series. Also see a video of Rabbat's first lecture in the series...

In summer 2018, Gordon Gray Professor of Arabic and CMES Director William Granara, along with Khaled al-Masri, Associate Professor of Arabic at Swarthmore, led undergraduates on a Harvard Summer School program in Aix-en-Provence, France. The program...

Brian Klug, Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy, St. Benet's Hall, University of Oxford, delivers the 2018 Hilda B. Silverman Memorial Lecture. Read Brian Klug's lecture

“Speaking about food or looking at old menus to explain the way culinary culture changes is one thing,” says Cemal Kafadar, Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies. “Hands-on exposure is another.” And so one evening in April, Kafadar led students in his...

CMES awarded a first prize and two honorable mentions in the 2017–18 Harvard College International Photo Contest for photos taken in the Middle East region. All photos were from students’ internships, language study, and travel in the summer of 2017...

In early April, Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, Director of the Intelligence Project at the Belfer Center for International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School, led a delegation of 11 Harvard graduate students to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Consisting of students...

Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs today announced that CMES Steering Committee member Tarek Masoud, Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations, will serve as faculty chair of the Belfer Center’s Middle...

Nicholas Norberg is a first-year student in the AM in Middle Eastern Studies program. How did you become interested in Middle Eastern studies? I became interested in Middle Eastern studies through my love of language acquisition. I studied linguistics as...

On the evening of April 26, nearly 100 members of our community gathered for a concert that brought to light the underappreciated contributions of women composers to Ottoman music. The event was held as part of the continuing Sohbet-i Osmani series...

Hamad Al-Hajri is a first-year student in the AM in Middle Eastern Studies program. How did you become interested in Middle Eastern Studies? I first became interested in the Middle East after being exposed to its cultural richness. Qatar’s capital, Doha...