2020-21

CMES is pleased to congratulate this year's graduating students in our AM, AB/AM, and PhD programs. AM Graduates and Thesis Titles Abdullah Almutabagani Mouhanad Al Rifay—Thesis: "Scattered Images: The Perpetual Destabilization of Family in Pursuit of...

Rosie Bsheer, Assistant Professor of History, and Cemal Kafadar, Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies, both core faculty members of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, recommend the following English-language materials and resources to contextualize...

Last summer, two Harvard Law School Professors, Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. ’94 and CMES affiliate Intisar A. Rabb, took on the case of former Buffalo Police Officer Cariol Horne, who was fired after she intervened to stop a fellow officer who was using a...

In DipNote, the official blog of the US Department of State, CMES alum Keven Moss (AM '16), a Foreign Service Officer covering human rights and religious freedoms in Istanbul, recounts his early fascination with Arabic language and his journey through...

CMES AM candidate Mouhanad Al Rifay is a Syrian-American award-winning documentary filmmaker, humanitarian, and human rights activist. At CMES he is focused on journalism and nonfiction narrative writing and developing further expertise in Middle East...

In the latest program in the New Books Network’s Middle East Studies Series, History and Middle Eastern Studies PhD candidate Deren Ertas talks with Ayfer Karakaya-Stump (PhD 2008), Associate Professor of History at the College of William and Mary, about...