The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Salim Tamari
Shawwaf Visiting Professor, Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University; Professor of Sociology Emeritus, Birzeit University, and Senior Fellow and Research Associate, Institute for Palestine Studies... Read more about The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine

The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series presents

A. Tunç Şen
Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, Columbia University... Read more about The Business of Astrology in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

The Boston Consortium for Arab Region Studies (BCARS) and American University of Beirut (AUB) present a roundtable discussion with

Dr. Sawsan Abdulrahim (AUB), Dr. Denis J. Sullivan (Northeastern Univ), Dr. Rim Saab (AUB), and Alice Verticelli (BCARS, AUB)

Register here.
... Read more about The Many Faces of Arab Refugeehood: Survival, Stress, and Seeking a Home

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Muhamed Almaliky
Associate, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and Director, Iraqi American Institute... Read more about Who Rules Iraq? Iraq's Political Transition Since 2003

The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series presents

Music of Turkish Ottoman Women Composers with

Ceren Turkmenoglu - Violin, Rebab, Bendir, Voice
Volkan Efe - Oud, Ney, Kemence, Voice
Michael Harrist - Yayli Tanbur, Bendir, Double Bass
Tev Stevig - Tanbur, Saz, Oud

Free and open to the public.... Read more about Music of Turkish-Ottoman Women Composers

CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series presents

Jun Akiba
Associate Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo; Visiting Scholar, Department of History, Harvard University

Please note: the date of this talk has been changed to April 23rd.    

 
... Read more about DATE CHANGE: Writing History, Writing Documents: Self-representation of an Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Historian-cum-Judge

The CMES Middle East Forum & the Institut des Amériques (New England) present

Soner Cagaptay
Beyer Family Fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute

Please note: this event has been cancelled.... Read more about CANCELLED: Turkey under Erdogan: Implications for US policies

The Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies present

Bayar Mustafa
Assistant Professor of Politics at the College of International Studies at the American University of Kurdistan, Duhok... Read more about The changing dynamics of Kurdish politics in the post-ISIS era

The Harvard Law and Religion Lecture Series presents

Muhammad Qasim Zaman
Professor in the department of Religion and Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University... Read more about Scripture, Translation, and Authority in Muslim South Asia, 18th-20th Centuries

Islamic Studies Lunch Seminar presents 

Samer El-Karanshawy
Carnegie Centennial Fellow, School of Public Affairs, American University, Washington, DC

RSVP required... Read more about The Conquests of Kisirwan: Ibn Taymiyya and a Claimed-as-Twelver-Shi`i Past

The Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series presents

Bedriye Poyraz
Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University... Read more about Dersim 38 Tertele (Massacre): Reasons, Truths, Claims

The CMES Arabian Peninsula Studies Lecture Series presents

Todd Reisz
Architect, writer, and lecturer at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

... Read more about Framed Forgeries: A Day in Court for Dubai’s Skyline

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Tufts University present

Ian Black
Visiting senior fellow, Middle East Centre, London School of Economics;  former Middle East editor of the Guardian newspaper; author of Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017... Read more about Contested Past, Uncertain Future: Enemies and Neighbors in Palestine and Israel

The CMES Middle East Forum presents

Sema Kalaycioglu
Professor, Department of Economics, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul... Read more about The Conflict Over Natural Gas Reserves in the Mediterranean: Political Risks vs. Economic Opportunities

The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series presents

Nil Tekgül
Visiting Post-doctoral Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies... Read more about Emotional Script of Ottoman Residential Quarters and Guilds (17th-18th centuries)