The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

The Honorable Deputy Chief Justice Adel Omar Sherif 
Dr. h.c. Adel Omar Sherif is the Deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt; a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Dedman School of Law, Southern Methodist… Read more about Theory and Political Praxis in Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court: From 2011 to 2017

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

The Honorable Deputy Chief Justice Adel Omar Sherif 
Dr. h.c. Adel Omar Sherif is the Deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt; a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Dedman School of Law, Southern Methodist… Read more about Theory and Political Praxis in Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court: From Its Founding to 2011

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Jocelyne Cesari
Professor of Religion and Politics, Department of Theology and Religion, Director of Research, Edward Cadbury Centre for the Public Understanding of Religion, University of Birmingham

… Read more about Why France fears Islam: Religion, Democracy and human rights in the time of elections

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Ümit Kurt
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies… Read more about The curious case of Ahmed Necmeddin Bey: a look into the sociopolitical climate in Aintab on the eve of 1915

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Farzin Vahdat
Sociologist, author

… Read more about Cinema and Religion in Contemporary Iran

A CMES discussion about the recent events in Syria

with

Roger Owen
A.J. Meyer Professor of Modern Middle East History, Emeritus, Department of History, Harvard University, and

Melani Cammett
Professor of Government, Harvard University; Faculty Affiliate, Belfer Center's Middle East Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School

… Read more about Syria-- What Next?

The CES/CMES Colonial Encounters Working Group presents

Casey Primel
Volkswagen Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Initiative on Global History, Harvard University… Read more about Title change: Through a Camera Obscura: Economic Science and the Emergence of the Market in Colonial Egypt

The Aga Khan Program and The Department of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design and the CMES Arabian Peninsula Studies Series present

AFTER DARK: Nocturnal Landscapes and Public Spaces in the Arabian Peninsula
In the Arabian Peninsula, public spaces are often most used after darkness falls and the temperatures with it. This symposium explores typologies of nocturnal landscapes common in the Peninsula, and similar hot climates. During this interdisciplinary event, we will ask who uses night-time landscapes and public spaces, what activities are peculiar to the night and ultimately, how to design for life after dark?

If you plan to attend this conference, please register here.… Read more about After Dark: Nocturnal Landscapes and Public Spaces in the Arabian Peninsula

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies present

Hussein Kalout
Special Secretary for Strategic Affairs of Brazil, Political Scientist, Professor of International Relations

Moderated by Payam Mohseni, Iran Project Director… Read more about Brazil's Middle East Policy: A Conversation with Hussein Kalout

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Elizabeth Shlala
Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies… Read more about The Late Ottoman Empire and Egypt: Hybridity, Law, and Gender

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Rocco Rante
Archaeologist, Louvre Museum… Read more about Dynamics of Human Occupations and Evolution of Settlements in the Bukhara Oasis

The Journal of Middle Eastern Politics and Policy (JMEPP) and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies present

Jason Rezaian, American journalist, and 
Yeganeh Rezaian, Iranian journalist

Jason Rezaian, ex-Tehran bureau chief for the Washington Post, and Iranian journalist Yeganeh Rezaian, will discuss Iran today, including the upcoming Iranian Presidential elections, the aftermath of the Nuclear Deal, and women's rights in Iran.… Read more about Talking Tehran: In conversation with the Rezaians

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a conference

On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the June 1967 War, this event seeks to explore new approaches to understand and rethink this pivotal and transformative moment in the history of the modern Middle East. At stake is the search for new sources that can shed light on the war and its long term repercussions for Arab societies.

Organized by: William Granara, Professor of Arabic, Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies; and Khaled Fahmy, Shawwaf Visiting Professor in Modern Middle Eastern History; Professor of History, American University of Cairo… Read more about The Naksa Fifty Years Later: New Sources, Questions and Approaches to the ‘67 War

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Devin Stewart
Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies; Chair, Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, Emory University… Read more about Arabic Curses and their Uses