2018-19

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents the film Haytarma (2013) Haytarma (2013) is a docudrama that closely follows the events surrounding the deportation of the Crimean Tatars by the Soviet regime in 1944. Director: Akhtem Seitablaev; writer...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a Crimean Tatar Studies Lecture Series with Brian Glyn Williams Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth Huseyin Oylupinar Turkish-Ukrainian-Crimean Tatar Studies Fellow, Center...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a screening and discussion with filmmaker Anahita Ghazvinizadeh Assistant Professor of Cinematic Arts, University of Iowa; first prize winner at 2013 Cannes Film Festival A screening of two short films, "When...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents Rosie Bsheer Assistant Professor, Department of History, Harvard University This keynote speech opens the one-day CMES colloquium Mecca: The Lived City. Rosie Bsheer is a historian of the modern Middle East...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents Tuna Şare Ağtürk Hilles Bush Fellow, Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, Harvard University; Associate Professor, Classical Archaeology and Art History, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey Tuna Şare...

CMES is pleased to present the 2019 Hilda B. Silverman Memorial Lecture with Herbert C. Kelman Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics Emeritus, Harvard University Please note: This event has been CANCELLED, due to unforeseen circumstances. It...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present Mecca: The Lived City, a colloquium examining the ways in which the city of Mecca is imagined, remembered, represented, and visualized from the perspectives of history, literature, landscape...

The CMES Book Talk Series presents Hiba Bou Akar Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University Beirut is a city divided. Following the Green Line of the civil war, dividing the Christian east and the...