The CMES/WCFIA Middle East Seminar presents

Soli Özel
Tom and Andi Bernstein Human Rights Fellow, Schell Center, Yale Law School; Lecturer, Political Science Department and International Relations Department, Kadir Has University, Istanbul

Please note: this Middle East Seminar will take place on Tuesday, March 12 at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government
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The CMES/WCFIA Middle East Seminar presents

Ambassador Chas Freeman
Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University; Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense; Former US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia... Read more about Order in Turmoil: Kaleidoscopic Change in the Middle East

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the CMES/WCFIA Middle East Seminar, and the Middle East Initiative (HKS) present

Ambassador Husam S. Zomlot
Head of the Palestinian Mission to the United Kingdom; Strategic Affairs Advisor to the President of the Palestinian National Authority and State of Palestine

Please note: this Middle East Seminar will take place on a Tuesday at 4:00pm at the Harvard Kennedy School

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Amb. Zomlot will deliver this lecture via video conference.... Read more about Palestine in the Era of Trump: A New Strategy for Political Change

The CMES/WCFIA Middle East Seminar presents

Denis J. Sullivan
Director, Boston Consortium for Arab Region Studies (a Carnegie Corporation Project); Professor of Political Science & International Affairs, Co-Director, Middle East Center, Northeastern University

POSTPONED: this event has been rescheduled for Fall 2019
... Read more about POSTPONED: The End of Politics: Egypt Under Sisi

The CMES/WCFIA Middle East Seminar presents

Bernard Haykel
Professor of Near Eastern Studes and Director of the Institute for Transregional Studies and the Program in Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University... Read more about The Transformation of Saudi Arabia and the Geopolitics of the Middle East

The CMES/WCFIA Middle East Seminar presents

Afşin Yurdakul
Robert Long Fellow, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University 2018-19; News Anchor and correspondent for Habertürk News Network, Turkey... Read more about Covering the Syrian Refugee Crisis: Analyzing from a Turkish Perspective

The CMES/WCFIA Middle East Seminar presents

Degang Sun
Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University 2018-19; Professor and Deputy Director, Middle East Institute, Shanghai International Studies University... Read more about China's Participation in Middle East Security Affairs: A New Model?

The Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution and the CMES/WCFIA Middle East Seminar presents

Herbert C. Kelman
Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics Emeritus, Harvard University... Read more about Reflections on a lifetime effort to bring peace to the Middle East: An Interview with Herbert C. Kelman

The CMES/WCFIA Middle East Seminar presents

Paul F. Saba, Esq.
International Energy Attorney

Please note: this talk will take place in CGIS South, Room S050, 1730 Cambridge St... Read more about The Political Economy of Energy and the Potential for Conflict in the Middle East: From Iran to Gaza and Beyond

CMES/WCFIA Middle East Seminar presents

Melani Cammett
Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Department of Government, Harvard University; Chair of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies; secondary faculty appointment in the Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard Chan School of Public Health

Discussant: Lama Mourad, Postdoctoral research fellow, Middle East Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School of Government... Read more about Title change: Coethnicity and Clientelism in Divided Societies: Insights from an Experimental Study of Political Behavior in Lebanon

CMES/WCFIA Middle East Seminar presents

Seyed Hossein Mousavian
Program on Science and Global Security (SGS), Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; Former Iranian Ambassador and Foreign Policy Advisor to the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Iran

Discussant: Payam Mohseni, Director, Iran Project, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Lecturer, Department of Government, Harvard University... Read more about Impact of the US Departure from JCPOA on Iran-US Bilateral Relations & the Regional Crisis

CMES/WCFIA Middle East Seminar presents

Nadya Hajj
Assistant Professor, Peace and Justice Studies Department, Wellesley College... Read more about Rebuilding Vibrant Communities Among Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon: Societal Reconstruction Amid Intractable Conflict

The CMES/WCFIA Middle East Seminar presents

Gary Samore
Senior Executive Director, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Professor of the Practice of Politics, Brandeis University

Discussant: Sahar Nowrouzzadeh, Research Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

For a copy of the talk Professor Samore gave on October 4, 2018, click here.
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The CMES/WCFIA Middle East Seminar presents

S. Michael Lynk
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967; Associate Professor of Law, Western University, London, Ontario

Please note the new start time: 4:30pm.... Read more about International Law and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Is Israel Still a Lawful Occupier?

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Salim Tamari
Shawwaf Visiting Professor, Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University; Professor of Sociology Emeritus, Birzeit University, and Senior Fellow and Research Associate, Institute for Palestine Studies... Read more about The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine