The Hrant Dink Memorial CMES Fund is pleased to present a talk and Karagöz puppet show featuring

Sona Tatoyan, stage & film actress, writer, and activist, and Ayhan Hülagü, journalist, actor, artist, and puppet master.

CMES welcomes Syrian-Armenian-American actress Sona Tatoyan as she presents her Armenian grandfather’s hand-made Karagöz shadow puppets,... Read more about Trauma, Magic, Love: Being In Aleppo with Karagöz Puppets, My Ancestors and the Spirit of Osman Kavala

The 2019–2020 Harvard University Aga Khan Program Lecture Series: A Forum for Islamic Art & Architecture & CMES present

Ridha Moumni
Art historian and curator, 2019-20 CMES Tunisia Postdoctoral Fellow... Read more about Representing Power at the Court of Ottoman Tunisia in the 19th Century

CMES Modern Middle East Speaker Series presents

Jennifer L. Derr
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Santa Cruz... Read more about Book talk: 'The Lived Nile: Environment, disease, and material colonial economy in Egypt'

CMES Modern Middle East Speaker Series presents

Nathalie Peutz
Associate Professor of Arab Crossroads Studies, NYU Abu Dhabi... Read more about Book talk: 'Islands of Heritage: Conservation and Transformation in Yemen'

CMES Modern Middle East Speaker Series presents

Noura Erakat: Justice for Some: Law As Politics in the Question of Palestine
Seth Anziska: Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo
Tareq Baconi: Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance

... Read more about Book talk: New Authors on Palestine

CMES Modern Middle East Speaker Series presents

Arbella Bet-Shlimon
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Washington... Read more about Book talk: 'City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk'

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 27 in the CGIS South Concourse....