The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Carol Solomon
2017-19 Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University... Read more about The Disappeared, the Silenced, and the Invisible: Art and the Transformation of Society in Morocco

The 2018-19 CMES Armenian Studies Lecture Series presents

Christina Maranci
Arthur H. Dadian and Ara Oztemel Chair of Armenian Art and Architectural History, Tufts University... Read more about How to Read Armenian (Art)

The Harvard Law and Religion Lecture Series presents

Ahmed Ragab
Richard T. Watson Associate Professor of Science and Religion, Harvard Divinity School... Read more about And God knows best: Scientific expertise, piety and Islamic legal opinions

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present for Harvard Worldwide Week

Vampires, Ghouls, and Alexander the Two-Horned: An Otherworldly Evening of 17th-Century Myth and 21st-Century Music
Inspired by the Musings of Ottoman Traveler Evliya Çelebi

Note: This event is open to the public; no registration or tickets required. Seating is limited.... Read more about Vampires, Ghouls, and Alexander the Two-Horned: An Otherworldly Evening of 17th-Century Myth and 21st-Century Music

The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program 
presents a workshop on

Methods in Islamic Studies 

Open to Harvard students and research fellows; RSVP required: tinyurl.com/AISP-2018
... Read more about Methods in Islamic Studies Workshop (RSVP required)

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Emre Çalışkan
Author (with Simon Waldman) of The 'New Turkey' and its Discontents

... Read more about Conceptualizing Turkish Foreign Policy: Weak State-Emerging Middle Power

The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University presents the 
2018–2019 AKPIA Lecture Series: A Forum for Islamic Art & Architecture with

Roy P. Mottahedeh
Gurney Professor of Islamic History Emeritus, Harvard University... Read more about Medieval Kashan: City of Scholars and Artisans

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Seminar on Migration and the Humanities presents

Jesse Howell
Post-doctoral fellow, Mahindra Humanities Center; Harvard PhD 2017 (CMES alum)

** This event has been cancelled; it will be rescheduled for Spring 2019. **

RSVP to Andrea Volpe to attend and to receive a copy of the paper in advance of the seminar: alvolpe@fas.harvard.edu.  
Seating is limited.... Read more about Cancelled: The Dragoman’s Proposal: Creating a Road Network in the Early Modern Mediterranean

The Mishael & Lillie Naby Assyrian Lecture Fund and CMES
present

Abboud Zeitoune
Assyrian music specialist; author of Music Pearls of Beth-Nahrin, an Assyrian/Syriac Discography (2007), Modern Assyrian Music (2015), Music Heritage of Mesopotamia (2016)
... Read more about Influence of Neighboring Cultures and Languages on Modern Assyrian Music

The Center for the Study of World Religions, John Paul II Center for Interreligious Dialogue, Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies present a lecture by

Guy Stroumsa
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Oxford University

Response by Jon Levenson, Harvard Divinity School;
Opening Remarks by Charles Stang, Harvard Divinity School, and Adam Afterman, Tel-Aviv University
... Read more about The Comparative Study of the Abrahamic Religions: Heuristic Gains and Cognitive Pitfalls

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Steven Serels
Visiting Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies; Research Officer, Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Regionalstudien (ZIRS), Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg... Read more about Book talk: The Impoverishment of the African Red Sea Littoral, 1640-1945

CMES and the Committee on Medieval Studies present the
Inaugural Joint Lecture in Medieval Middle Eastern Studies​ featuring

Brian Catlos
Professor of Religious Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder... Read more about Kingdoms of Faith - Writing a New History of Islamic Spain

The Boston Consortium for Arab Region Studies (BCARS) and American University of Beirut (AUB) present a roundtable discussion with

Dr. Sawsan Abdulrahim (AUB), Dr. Denis J. Sullivan (Northeastern Univ), Dr. Rim Saab (AUB), and Alice Verticelli (BCARS, AUB)

Register here.
... Read more about The Many Faces of Arab Refugeehood: Survival, Stress, and Seeking a Home