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[ View Upcoming Events arrow\_circle\_right ](/calendar/upcoming) Sort & Filters close ## Filters Event Series expand\_more - Ad Hoc or Co-Sponsored (541) - Arabian Peninsula Studies Lecture Series (15) - Arabic Lecture Series (11) - Conference/Workshop (42) - Director's Series (46) - Disaster Studies (1) - Environmental Studies of the Middle East (3) - Gibb Lecture Series (22) - HMECA (18) - Initiative on Contemporary Islamic Societies (2) - Islam in the West (3) - Israeli Law, Literature & Society (7) - Middle East Beyond Borders (8) - Middle East Forum (65) - Mideast Newsreel (1) - Morocco Forum (10) - New Works in Middle East Studies (7) - Non-CMES Event (19) - Outreach (47) - Silverman Lecture Series (13) - Sohbet-i Osmani (80) - Turkey in the Modern World (73) - WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar (182) - Working Group: Film and Visual Arts (5) - Working Group: Middle East Literature (6) - Working Group: Politics and Social Movements (6) Academic Year expand\_more - 2025-26 (32) - 2024-25 (53) - 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8:00PM EDT | CMES, Rm 102 In Person ![Onur Gunay](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/OnurGunay.jpeg?itok=tKyolRRE) [### Translating from the Arabic: Iman Humaydan (author) & Michelle Hartman (translator) in conversation with Luke Leafgren ](/event/translating-arabic-iman-humaydan-author-michelle-hartman-translator-conversation-luke)April 23, 2026 | 3:00PM - 4:30PM EDT | CGIS South, Rm S354 In Person ![Songs for Darkness](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/SongsForDarkness.jpeg?itok=ZfFJnsrI) [### The Holocaust, Nazi Germany, and the War on Bolshevism: Reexamining the Causes of World War Two ](/event/holocaust-nazi-germany-and-war-bolshevism-reexamining-causes-world-war-two)April 23, 2026 | 12:30PM - 2:30PM EDT | CMES, Rm 102 In Person ![Jochen Hellbeck](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/hellbeck.jpeg?itok=0_gqVUnf) [### CMES Disaster Studies Initiative Spring 2026 Colloquium ](/event/cmes-disaster-studies-initiative-spring-2026-colloquium)April 10, 2026 | 1:00PM - 7:00PM EDT | History Dept Conference Room, Robinson Hall 125, Harvard Yard, Cambridge In Person ![Mine rescue workers in Turkey cartoon](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/MineRescuersTurkey.jpg?itok=EYBD6cKr) [### Teaching to Entrench: Education, Fragmentation, and Yemen’s Next Decade ](/event/teaching-entrench-education-fragmentation-and-yemens-next-decade)April 9, 2026 | 4:30PM - 6:00PM EDT | CGIS Knafel 262 In Person ![Stacey Philbrick Yadav](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-12/staceyyadav.jpeg?itok=5gE2Iuxj) [### The Political Economy of Energy Transitions in the Middle East ](/event/political-economy-energy-transitions-middle-east)April 2, 2026 | 4:30PM - 6:00PM EDT In Person ![Wind farm in the Middle East](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/Energy-Middle-East.jpeg?itok=cfm0yXFo) [### Book talk: "Islamic Aid and Gulf States in Contemporary Crises" ](/event/book-talk-islamic-aid-and-gulf-states-contemporary-crises)March 31, 2026 | 4:30PM - 6:00PM EDT | CMES, Rm 102 In Person ![Altea Pericoli](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-01/Pericoli.jpeg?itok=53NeJ-qY) [### The Other Side of Hollywood ](/event/other-side-hollywood)March 30, 2026 | 5:30PM - 7:30PM EDT | CMES, Rm 102 In Person ![Ayhan Hulagu, puppeteer](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/ayhan-h-1.jpeg?itok=6kgOBl9Z) [### Deeper Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel Today ](/event/deeper-trouble-tribe-american-jewish-conflict-over-israel-today)March 26, 2026 | 4:30PM - 6:00PM EDT | CGIS Knafel 262 In Person ![Dov Waxman](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-01/DovWaxman.jpeg?itok=pcEjRsQB) [### The First Poetic Sīrah in the Context of the Relationship Between Literature and History: Muhammad Wali’s Sīrat al-Nabī ](/event/first-poetic-sirah-context-relationship-between-literature-and-history-muhammad-walis-sirat)March 24, 2026 | 4:30PM - 6:00PM EDT | CMES, Rm 102 In Person ![Aygun Uzunoz](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/AygunUzunoz.png?itok=EHNgHLja) [### Book talk: "Satellite Ministries: The Rise of Christian Television in the Middle East" ](/event/book-talk-satellite-ministries-rise-christian-television-middle-east)March 24, 2026 | 12:00PM - 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