The CMES Middle East Forum presents

Mansour Salsabili
Research Fellow, CMES, Harvard University... Read more about Religiosity and Violence: Shiite Ulama Responses to Modernization and the 1906 Constitutional Revolution

The CMES Director's Series presents

Suzy Hansen
Writer; 2018 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World

... Read more about Seeing America From a Distance -- Reflections from Turkey and Beyond

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Ridha Moumni
Tunisia Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies

(Please note: this talk was originally scheduled for February 19)... Read more about (Date change) Modernism and Political Modernity: Tunisian Art in the Time of Bourguiba (1957-1979)

The CMES/WCFIA Middle East Seminar presents

Dana Burde, Phd
Associate Professor and Director, International Education Program, International Education & Politics, New York University; Research Fellow, Center for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP); Editor in Chief, Journal on Education in Emergencies... Read more about Schools for Conflict or for Peace in Afghanistan: Jihad literacy, community-based education, and the shifting goals of US foreign policy in the region

The Center for the Study of World Religions & CMES present

Benjamin Balint, writer based in Jerusalem, and

Merav Mack, Research fellow, Truman Institute for Peace, Hebrew University of Jerusalem... Read more about Jerusalem: City of the Book

The CMES Middle East Forum presents

Karam Dana
Associate Professor of Middle East Politics and Islamic Studies, University of Washington Bothell... Read more about The "Deals" of the Century From Balfour to Trump: The Political Economy of Failure and a New Palestinian Response

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Shahad Al Rawi, author of The Baghdad Clock, short-listed for the 2018 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF), and

Luke Leafgren, translator The Baghdad Clock... Read more about 'The Baghdad Clock': A Book Talk with the Author and Translator

The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series presents

Arzu Eylül Yalçınkaya
Lecturer, Institute for Sufi Studies, Üsküdar University, Istanbul... Read more about A Contemporary Sufi Tradition: The case of the Late Ottoman Elite and Sufi Sheikh Ken'ân Rifâî

The Committee on Medieval Studies presents

Samuel England
Associate Professor of Arabic, University of Wisconsin-Madison... Read more about Arabic Classes and Classics in the Opera House

The Hrant Dink Memorial CMES Fund is pleased to present a talk and Karagöz puppet show featuring

Sona Tatoyan, stage & film actress, writer, and activist, and Ayhan Hülagü, journalist, actor, artist, and puppet master.

CMES welcomes Syrian-Armenian-American actress Sona Tatoyan as she presents her Armenian grandfather’s hand-made Karagöz shadow puppets,... Read more about Trauma, Magic, Love: Being In Aleppo with Karagöz Puppets, My Ancestors and the Spirit of Osman Kavala

The 2019–2020 Harvard University Aga Khan Program Lecture Series: A Forum for Islamic Art & Architecture & CMES present

Ridha Moumni
Art historian and curator, 2019-20 CMES Tunisia Postdoctoral Fellow... Read more about Representing Power at the Court of Ottoman Tunisia in the 19th Century

The Harvard Middle East Cultural Association invites you to its Annual Book Sale and Fundraiser 

Stop by CMES to support HMECA and add some books and journal issues to your collection ($1-$5 each!).

Thursday & Friday, September 19 & 20, 10am-3pm each day....

CMES Modern Middle East Speaker Series presents

Jennifer L. Derr
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Santa Cruz... Read more about Book talk: 'The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt'

CMES Modern Middle East Speaker Series presents

Nathalie Peutz
Associate Professor of Arab Crossroads Studies, NYU Abu Dhabi... Read more about Book talk: 'Islands of Heritage: Conservation and Transformation in Yemen'