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Harvard Students Launch Fundraisers for Morocco Earthquake Relief

September 15, 2023

Harvard students and affiliates raised more than $19,000 in donations through fundraisers for disaster relief following a deadly earthquake that hit Morocco last Friday. The earthquake, which struck near Marrakesh, Morocco, is one of the deadliest to hit the country in decades, with a death toll approaching 3,000 victims, mostly in rural areas. Read more about these fundraising efforts in the...

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Earthquake impact in Douar Agadir Jamaa, Tizi N'Test commune, Taroudant Province. September 2023

Support for Earthquake Relief Efforts in Morocco

September 14, 2023

On September 8, a massive earthquake struck the Marrakesh–Safi region of Morocco, the largest recorded in the country's history and the deadliest since 1960. CMES mourns the thousands of lives lost in this disaster. Local and international rescue and relief efforts are underway. A group of prominent Moroccan scholars in the United States have set up a GoFundMe to raise funds for relief efforts and are working with local NGOs and community leaders to ensure all funds make the biggest, most direct impact to support families.

At the El-Zitouna Mosque in the Medina of Tunis

In the Shadow of History: A Summer in Tunisia

August 15, 2022

In the summer of 2022, after a two-year hiatus due to Covid-19, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies’ five-week Arabic language program in Tunis made its long-awaited return. Led for a fifth time by the Gordon Gray Research Professor of Arabic and outgoing CMES Director William Granara, the program synthesized modern Tunisian history, literature, and culture through various texts dating from the early-twentieth-century pre-Independence period to the contemporary, post-Revolution setting. Nicolas Pantelick ’24, a joint NELC and government concentrator pursuing a concurrent AM degree...

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