The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Farzin Vahdat
Sociologist, author

... Read more about Cinema and Religion in Contemporary Iran

A CMES discussion about the recent events in Syria

with

Roger Owen
A.J. Meyer Professor of Modern Middle East History, Emeritus, Department of History, Harvard University, and

Melani Cammett
Professor of Government, Harvard University; Faculty Affiliate, Belfer Center's Middle East Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School

... Read more about Syria-- What Next?

The CES/CMES Colonial Encounters Working Group presents

Casey Primel
Volkswagen Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Initiative on Global History, Harvard University... Read more about Title change: Through a Camera Obscura: Economic Science and the Emergence of the Market in Colonial Egypt

The Aga Khan Program and The Department of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design and the CMES Arabian Peninsula Studies Series present

AFTER DARK: Nocturnal Landscapes and Public Spaces in the Arabian Peninsula
In the Arabian Peninsula, public spaces are often most used after darkness falls and the temperatures with it. This symposium explores typologies of nocturnal landscapes common in the Peninsula, and similar hot climates. During this interdisciplinary event, we will ask who uses night-time landscapes and public spaces, what activities are peculiar to the night and ultimately, how to design for life after dark?

If you plan to attend this conference, please register here.... Read more about After Dark: Nocturnal Landscapes and Public Spaces in the Arabian Peninsula

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies present

Hussein Kalout
Special Secretary for Strategic Affairs of Brazil, Political Scientist, Professor of International Relations

Moderated by Payam Mohseni, Iran Project Director... Read more about Brazil's Middle East Policy: A Conversation with Hussein Kalout

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Elizabeth Shlala
Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies... Read more about The Late Ottoman Empire and Egypt: Hybridity, Law, and Gender

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Rocco Rante
Archaeologist, Louvre Museum... Read more about Dynamics of Human Occupations and Evolution of Settlements in the Bukhara Oasis

The Journal of Middle Eastern Politics and Policy (JMEPP) and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies present

Jason Rezaian, American journalist, and 
Yeganeh Rezaian, Iranian journalist

Jason Rezaian, ex-Tehran bureau chief for the Washington Post, and Iranian journalist Yeganeh Rezaian, will discuss Iran today, including the upcoming Iranian Presidential elections, the aftermath of the Nuclear Deal, and women's rights in Iran.... Read more about Talking Tehran: In conversation with the Rezaians

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a conference

On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the June 1967 War, this event seeks to explore new approaches to understand and rethink this pivotal and transformative moment in the history of the modern Middle East. At stake is the search for new sources that can shed light on the war and its long term repercussions for Arab societies.

Organized by: William Granara, Professor of Arabic, Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies; and Khaled Fahmy, Shawwaf Visiting Professor in Modern Middle Eastern History; Professor of History, American University of Cairo... Read more about The Naksa Fifty Years Later: New Sources, Questions and Approaches to the ‘67 War

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Devin Stewart
Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies; Chair, Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, Emory University... Read more about Arabic Curses and their Uses

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Ian V. McGonigle
Research Associate, Program on Science, Technology and Society, Harvard University; PhD candidate, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University... Read more about Biobanking and Biopolitics in Qatar and Israel

The Harvard Asia Center, Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History, Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard Center for African Studies, Harvard History Department, Harvard Early Modern History Workshop, Harvard Medieval Studies Committee, Harvard Center for History and Economics, Mellon Rare Book School, and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs present a conference

This event proposes a new concept—“(dis)entanglement”—in order to provide alternative narratives of the early modern world, 1300-1800. Recent scholarship has emphasized the integrative nature of economic, material, and religious developments. In contrast, we will examine what the “global” could mean in intellectual and cultural interactions in terms of both integration and disintegration across multiple continents and oceans. The conference participants will explore how the notion of “(dis)entanglement” allows us to evoke a polycentric early modern world that is simultaneously connecting and disconnecting.... Read more about (Dis)entangling Global Early Modernities, 1300-1800

Committee on the Study of Religion and Harvard Law School present The Inaugural Lecture of the Harvard Law and Religion Lecture Series with

Brinkley M. Messick
Professor in Anthropology, Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia University... Read more about Islamic Governance, Sharīʿa Interpretation, Imamic Yemen

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

رحلة في أعماق تجربتي في الكتابة عن اليمن، وعن الحروب الروحية

Habib Sarori
Novelist; University Professor, INSA de Rouen

Please note: this talk will be in Arabic, and it has been moved to 11:30 am.... Read more about Habib Sarori, Yemeni novelist