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Please join us for A Musical Night in the Coffeehouse: Ottoman Melodies, Hebrew Poetry, and Mystical Histories The Ottoman world witnessed the unstoppable proliferation of an infectious novelty in the sixteenth century: coffee as a social beverage...

CMES presents Onur Günay is an anthropologist and documentary filmmaker whose work moves across political and medical anthropology, critical theory, Middle Eastern studies, and visual ethnography. He is currently Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate...

The Mahindra Rethinking Translation Seminar presents a conversation with Iman Humaydan, author, and Michele Hartman, translator, of Songs for Darkness, an epic novel that intertwines a narration focused on four generations of Lebanese women’s lives with...

CMES, Hayalhane-i Osmani, and The US Karagoz Theatre Company present "The Other Side of Hollywood: A 1,000 Year Old Epic Based on the Book of Dede Korkut" A solo shadow puppet performance of Ayhan Hulagu. The Other Side of Hollywood is a free adaptation...

The Department of History and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies present Ayfer Karakaya-Stump Ayfer Karakaya-Stump is Associate Professor of History at William & Mary. She received her Ph.D. in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents Anwar Mhajne Associate Professor of Political Science at Stonehill College Anwar Mhajne is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Stonehill College and a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Middle...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents Sultan Alamer Associate at the Center of Middle Eastern Studies and Resident Fellow at the New Lines Institute. Dr. Sultan Alamer is an Associate at the Center of Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard. He is also...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents Aygün Uzunöz Research Assistant (Dr.) in the Department of Islamic History and Arts at Ankara Yildırim Beyazit University; Visiting Scholar at CMES. Uzunoz’s research focuses on early Islamic historiography...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents Febe Armanios Philip Battell and Sarah Frances Cowles Stewart Professor of History, Middlebury College Febe Armanios received her BA, MA, and Ph.D. from the Ohio State University. Her research focuses on the...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents Yasemin Karakuş Assistant Professor in the Department of Turkish Language and Literature at Istanbul University, specializing in Ottoman Literature; Visiting Scholar, CMES. Karakuş' research focuses on...