The CMES Middle East Forum presents

Sawsan Abdulrahim, PhD, MPH
Professor of Public Health, American University of Beirut;  Inaugural Fellow, Palestine Program in Health and Human Rights, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights,  Harvard University... Read more about Does Education Buy Health for Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon?

The CMES Middle East Forum and the HDS Religion, Conflict and Peace Initiative are pleased to present

Dr. Lisa Suhair Majaj
Award-winning Poet and Author

Note: This talk will also take place on Zoom; please register in advance on Zoom here: https://bit.ly/3ZTeuoT​​​​​​​.... Read more about Writing as a Diasporan Palestinian: Poems and Reflections

Please join us for lunch and a discussion about Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence and Roadblocks to Political Expression, a new book from 

Amahl A. Bishara, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University

Moderator/Respondent: Raef Zreik, Religion and Public Life Visiting Scholar in Conflict and Peace, Harvard Divinity School

To attend this lecture, please register in advance here: https://bit.ly/3XG8L3i

... Read more about Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence and Roadblocks to Political Expression - Book Event with Amahl Bishara

The Harvard Divinity School Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative is pleased to welcome

Leila Farsakh
Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Massachusetts, Boston

Maha Nassar
Associate Professor, Modern Middle East History, Islamic Studies at University of Arizona

Susan Akram
Clinical Professor of Law, Boston University

Moderated by: Rabea Eghbariah, RCPI Topol Fellow

Register on Zoom here: https://bit.ly/3TpG9ZY​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
... Read more about Book event: "Rethinking Statehood in Palestine: Self-Determination and Decolonization beyond Partition"

The CMES Middle East Forum is pleased to present

Lucia Sorbera
Senior Lecturer and Chair, Arabic Language and Cultures, The University of Sydney, Australia; Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Advanced Research Collaborative, CUNY

... Read more about A Politics of Radical Care: Writing Women into the History of the Egyptian Human Rights Movement

The CMES Middle East Forum, Harvard University, and the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative, Religion and Public Life, Harvard Divinity School present a tour of the newly released book

Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire 

with contributors

Asmaa AbuMezied: author of "Lost Identity: The Tale of Peasantry and Nature," and,

Yousef Aljamal: author of "Travel Restrictions as a Manifestation of Nakba: Gaza, the Path Backward is the Path Forward"

Jehad Abusalim, co-editor and author of the introduction to Light in Gaza, will provide concluding remarks... Read more about Book talk: "Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire"

The CMES Middle East Forum is pleased to present

Mohammedwesam Amer
Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Researcher, Centre For Middle East Studies, Harvard University; Dean, Faculty of Mass Communication and Languages, Gaza University, Palestine... Read more about Hamas in Cyberspace: Social Media and New Forms of Political Expression

CMES and the CMES Middle East Forum are pleased to present

Ahmad Mohammadpour  
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology, Department of Anthropology, Sociology and Criminology, Troy University, and
 
Dilan Okcuoglu
M. Barzani Postdoctoral Fellow & Lecturer, Global Kurdish Studies, School of International Service, American University

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3NeVU3X... Read more about De-development, Political Violence, and Informal Control: The Kurds in Iran and Turkey

The FXB Center for Health & Human Rights and the CMES Middle East Forum present

Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Professor and Chair in Law, Hebrew University-Jerusalem
Shaina Low, US Advocacy Officer, Defence for Children International-Palestine
Jumana Odeh, Director, Palestine Happy Child Center

Moderator: Jacqueline Bhabha, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3lhLqF1... Read more about Continuous Trauma: The State of Children's Health in the Palestinian Territory

The CMES Middle East Forum presents a book talk with

Dirk Moses, Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Global Human Rights History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;
Bashir Bashir,  Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Political Science, and Communication, Open University of Israel and Senior Research Fellow, The Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem;
Leila Farsakh, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts at Boston; and
Derek Penslar, William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, Harvard University

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/2PYy3w8.... Read more about Book talk: "The Arab and Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond"

The CMES Middle East Forum presents a book talk with

Manal A. Jamal
Professor of Political Science, James Madison University

Register here: https://bit.ly/3jGIjnx... Read more about Book talk: Foreign Donor Assistance and the Political Economy of Marginalization and Inclusion in Palestine, Iraq and El Salvador

The CMES Middle East Forum presents

Reese Erlich
Freelance Foreign Correspondent, Peabody Award winner... Read more about The US-Iran Crisis: A Reporter’s Firsthand Perspective

The CMES Middle East Forum presents

Caitlin Procter, PhD
Max Weber Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute

Please note: due to University precautions surrounding the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID 2019) outbreak, this event has been **POSTPONED** to October 2020... Read more about **POSTPONED to OCT 2020** Escaping Blockade: The Politics of Youth Migration in Gaza

The CMES Middle East Forum presents

Mansour Salsabili
Research Fellow, CMES, Harvard University... Read more about Religiosity and Violence: Shiite Ulama Responses to Modernization and the 1906 Constitutional Revolution