Oula Alrifai is a second-year student in the AM in Middle Eastern Studies program.... Read more about Q&A with Oula Alrifai

The Iranian Oral History Project, launched in 1981 at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and directed by Habib Ladjevardi, recorded the personal accounts of 134 individuals who played major roles in or were eyewitnesses to important political events in Iran from the 1920s to the 1980s. This unique resource, available through Harvard Library, provides scholars and practitioners the opportunity to listen to and read the personal accounts of many of Iran’s former political leaders as they recall the times and events that shaped their lives and the life of their country.... Read more about Iranian Oral History Project Gets an Update

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to renew its relationship with IMVBox.com as an "Official Education Partner" in their work relating to Iranian cinema and theatre.... Read more about CMES Renews Partnership with IMVBox

In NYR Daily, Robyn Creswell reviews the exhibition Technologies of the Image: Art in 19th-Century Iran, on view at the Harvard Art Museums through January 7, 2018. The...

A rare album of artists’ drawings, preparatory sketches, and more helped shape a Harvard Art Museums exhibition about art in 19th-century Iran, co-curated by McWilliams, Norma Jean Calderwood Curator of Islamic and Later Indian Art at the Harvard Art Museums, and CMES Steering Committee member David Roxburgh, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History and chair of the Department of History of Art and Architecture. Read more about the exhibition and related publications in HAM's...