The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents the film

Haytarma (2013)... Read more about Film screening: Haytarma (2013)

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a Crimean Tatar Studies Lecture Series with

Brian Glyn Williams
Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

Huseyin Oylupinar
Turkish-Ukrainian-Crimean Tatar Studies Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Hanna Abakunova
Mihaychuk Research Fellow, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

This panel will be followed by the screening of the docudrama Haytarma (2013): https://bit.ly/2LkgZhk at CMES.... Read more about Persecution and Persistence: 75th Anniversary of the Deportation of the Crimean Tatars in Historical Context

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a screening and discussion with filmmaker

Anahita Ghazvinizadeh
Assistant Professor of Cinematic Arts, University of Iowa; first prize winner at 2013 Cannes Film Festival

A screening of two short films, "When the Kid Was a Kid" and "Needle", followed by a Q&A with the director... Read more about Film Screening & Discussion with Director Anahita Ghazvinizadeh

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Rosie Bsheer
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Harvard University

This keynote speech opens the one-day CMES colloquium Mecca: The Lived City.
... Read more about Mecca: From Revolution to Redevelopment

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Tuna Şare Ağtürk
Hilles Bush Fellow, Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, Harvard University; Associate Professor, Classical Archaeology and Art History, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey... Read more about Urban Archaeology and Classical Heritage in Turkey: Uncovering the lost Roman capital city of Nicomedia

The CMES Book Talk Series presents

Hiba Bou Akar
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University... Read more about Book talk: For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut's Frontiers

SoArt (Social Art) is an organization that brings together Young Iranian artists, and the way they share their vision of social change through art. Works from 50 Iranian artists will be on display May 3-August 15 in the CGIS South Concourse....

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Betül Ekşi
Robert G. James Scholar Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Postdoctoral Research Associate, Global Resilience Institute, Northeastern University... Read more about Flowers, Tough Guys, and TOMAs: Police Masculinities and Political Transition in Turkey

The Harvard Law and Religion Lecture Series presents

Anver Emon
Professor of Law and History; Canada Research Chair in Religion, Pluralism and the Rule of Law; Director, Institute of Islamic Studies, University of Toronto Faculty of Law... Read more about Islamic legalities across the longue durée: A preliminary historical epistemology of Islamic law

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies warmly welcome you to the Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture featuring

Nadia Murad
2018 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Admission is free. Tickets required.
Limit of 2 per person.

Available by phone and online (for a fee) and in person at the Harvard Box Office, Smith Campus Center, 1350 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, beginning Thursday, March 28 at 12:00pm EST.... Read more about Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad in Conversation with Jennifer Leaning

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a panel of scholars on China and the Middle East

Ezra F. Vogel (傅高义), Harvard University
Robert S. Ross (陆伯彬), Boston College
Bruce Rutherford, Colgate University
Degang Sun, Shanghai International Studies University... Read more about China and the Middle East in the 21st Century