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

The CMES Meet the Director Series presents

Bab Al-Sama Maftuh (Morocco, 1988)
(A Door to the Sky; Une porte sur le ciel) written and directed by Farida Benlyazid

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

Free admission, open to the public.... Read more about **POSTPONED** Film screening: "Bab Al-Sama Maftuh (A Door to the Sky)" (Morocco, 1988)

The Harvard Scholars at Risk Program presents

Mosab Abu Toha
Visiting poet and scholar, Harvard University Scholars at Risk Program, hosted by the Department of Comparative Literature; visiting librarian-in-residence, Houghton Library

POSTPONED: Due to University precautions surrounding the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID 2019) outbreak, we have postponed this lecture. The organizers hope to reschedule the lecture and will annouce that as soon as they are able.

Free and open to the public. RSVP: bit.ly/RescuedfromRubble... Read more about **POSTPONED** Rescued from Rubble: Founding the Edward Said Public Library in Gaza

CMES and the Committee on Medieval Studies present

William E. Granara
Gordon Gray Professor of the Practice of Arabic, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations  & Department of Comparative Literature; Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University... Read more about Book talk: "Narrating Muslim Sicily: War and Peace in the Medieval Mediterranean World"

CMES Director's Series presents a screening of

Heads and Tails (2019)
A documentary on traveling hair

A film by Aylin Kuryel and Firat Yücel... Read more about Screening: "Heads and Tails" (2019)

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Hebatalla Taha
Post-doctoral Researcher, Sciences Po, Paris

Please note: due to University precautions surrounding the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID 2019) outbreak, this lecture has been **CANCELLED**  ... Read more about **CANCELLED** The End of the World? Egyptian Cultural Representations of the Nuclear Condition

Center for Jewish Studies and CMES present

Noam Shuster-Eliassi
Comedian, Visiting Fellow with the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative, Harvard Divinity School... Read more about Comedy or Leadership? A Conversation with Activist-Turned-Comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi

CMES Modern Middle East Speaker Series presents

Nada Moumtaz
Assistant Professor, Department of the Study of Religion, University of Toronto

Please note: due to University precautions surrounding the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID 2019) outbreak, this lecture has been **CANCELLED**... Read more about **CANCELLED** Book talk: "Reviving the Waqf: Property, Law, and Religion in Modern Beirut"

The Aga Khan Fund for Iranian Studies presents

Hessam Dehghani
Lecturer in Philosophy, Bentley University; Lecturer in Persian and Arabic language and linguistics, Boston College... Read more about Following the Laws in Islam: A Phenomenological Perspective

CMES Modern Middle East Speaker Series & The Program in Islamic Law at HLS present

Darryl Li
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences in the College, and Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago

Please note: this event has been moved to Tsai Auditorium.... Read more about Book talk: "The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity"

CMES Modern Middle East Speaker Series presents

Fadi A. Bardawil
Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University

Please note: due to University precautions surrounding the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID 2019) outbreak, this lecture has been **CANCELLED**... Read more about **CANCELLED** Book talk: "Revolution and Disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation"