In an effort to mark, interrogate, and reflect on protests, revolutions, and uprisings in the MENA region, this roundtable will address the relationship between archives, historical thinking, and revolution--both past and present.

12-1:30pm EST || 7-8:30pm Beirut & Cairo || Broadcast live at: facebook.com/Jadaliyya

Featuring
Reem Bailony, Agnes Scott College, Rosie Bsheer, Harvard... Read more about Archives, Revolution and Historical Thinking

Academics for Peace North America present

Seda Altuğ, Boğaziçi University, Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Assistant Professor
Zeynep Gambetti, Boğaziçi University, Political Science & International Relations, Emeritus Professor
Berivan Tekdal, Boğaziçi University, Student
Ömer Demir, Boğaziçi University, Student 

Moderator: Dilan Okçuoğlu, Global Kurdish Studies, American University, Postdoctoral Fellow and Professorial Lecturer

Public webinar via Zoom. Registration is required: https://bit.ly/3pVlf67.

... Read more about Academic Autonomy and Freedom in Turkey: The case of Boğaziçi University

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a book talk

Dr. Ümit Kurt
Polonsky Fellow, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute; and lecturer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3eerAYi​​​​​​​... Read more about Book talk: "The Armenians of Aintab: The Economics of Genocide in an Ottoman Province"

The CMES Book Series presents

San Charles Haddad
Author, consultant

Register here: https://bit.ly/3jDolKD​​​​​​​.... Read more about Book talk: "The File: Origins of the Munich Massacre"

The Tunisia Office of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies & The Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece, Harvard University are pleased to announce the premiere of the short film they co-produced during summer 2020:

#AFTER LOCKDOWN: VERY SHORT STORIES ABOUT ENDURING A GLOBAL PANDEMIC... Read more about Film discussion: "#After Lockdown - Very Short Stories about Enduring a Global Pandemic"

The Tunisia Office of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University invites you to the opening session of its fall 2020 webinar series:

Tunisia Newsreel 2020 - Tunisia in the Post-2011 Era - Notes From Ground

SUSTAINING DEMOCRACY IN TIME OF PANDEMIC: TUNISIA’S CHALLENGES AND SUCCESSES

Q&A with: HEDI LARBI, Economist; Tunisia’s Former Minister of Economic Infrastructure, Regional Planning and Sustainable Development (2014-15); Former Regional Director and Advisor to the Middle East and North Africa Vice President at the World Bank; Associate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs’ Middle East Initiative and former Kuwait Foundation Visiting Scholar (2015-2016)

Introductory remarks by Professor William Granara (CMES).

Discussant: Aytug Sasmaz, PhD candidate, Harvard University Department of Government; 
Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative

Register:  https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zzPig-AyRZ29VC95UX6h_w

... Read more about Sustaining Democracy in Time of Pandemic: Tunisia's Challenges and Successes - Q&A with Hedi Larbi

The Tunisia Office of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University & The Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece, Harvard University are pleased to announce the premiere of the short film they co-produced during summer 2020:

#AFTER LOCKDOWN: VERY SHORT STORIES ABOUT ENDURING A GLOBAL PANDEMIC... Read more about Film premiere: "#After Lockdown - Very Short Stories about Enduring a Global Pandemic"

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Zeynep Tek
Research Assistant, Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Turkey

Register: 
https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkdOutrjotHNSLmLHRh6f4m7DFG1BW_F2y ... Read more about If Women Build a Government: An Anti-Feminist Dream Narrative in Early Republican Turkey

The CMES Modern Middle East Speaker Series and the Department of History, Harvard University present

Rosie Bsheer
Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University

Discussants: Beshara Doumani (Brown), Eve M. Troutt Powell (UPenn), Kirsten Weld (Harvard)

Moderator: Durba Mitra (Harvard)

Register: https://bit.ly/30CS65R.... Read more about Book talk: "Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia"

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar and the Religion, Conflict and Peace Initiative at the Harvard Divinity School present

Amira Hass
Journalist & correspondent for the Occupied Territories, Haaretz; Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative Fellow, Religious Literacy Project, Harvard Divinity School

Please note: this talk was originally scheduled for 4:30pm.

Register: https://bit.ly/2GOumFf​​​​​​​.... Read more about TIME CHANGE: Peace in the Era of Post-Truth: The Logic of Fragmenting Palestine

The Mahindra Humanities Center Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar presents

Owen T.A. Cornwall
Tufts University

Please note: due to University precautions surrounding the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID 2019) outbreak, this lecture has been **CANCELLED** ... Read more about **CANCELLED** Alexander in the Graveyard: Persianate Humanism in Literature, Painting, and Architecture

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Siren Çelik
CMES Byzantine Post-doctoral fellow

Please note: due to University precautions surrounding the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID 2019) outbreak, this lecture has been **CANCELLED**  ... Read more about **CANCELLED** Manuel II Palaiologos (1350-1425): A Byzantine Emperor in a Time of Tumult

The Film & Visual Studies Screen Studies Workshop presents

Rasha Salti
Researcher, writer, curator of art and film

Please note: due to University precautions surrounding the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID 2019) outbreak, this event has been **CANCELLED**  

... Read more about **CANCELLED** The Secret Lives of Images

The CMES Director's Series presents

Khaled Fahmy
Sultan Qaboos bin Sa'id Professor of Modern Arabic Studies, University of Cambridge

Please note: due to University precautions surrounding the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID 2019) outbreak, this lecture has been **CANCELLED** ... Read more about **CANCELLED** The Egyptian Army in the 1967 Arab-Israeli War

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Hüseyin Oylupinar
Postdoctoral Fellow in Turkish-Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University... Read more about A Friendship Forged in Wartime: Ukrainian-Turkish Encounters on the Galician Front in WWI