The WCFIA and CMES Middle East Seminar and the Civic and Moral Education Initiative of the Harvard Graduate School of Education are pleased to present

Ervin Staub
Professor of Psychology Emeritus; Founding Director of the Doctoral Program in the Psychology of Peace and Violence, University of Massachusetts at Amherst... Read more about Some Thoughts on the Persistence and Resolution of the Israeli Palestinian Conflict

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar is pleased to present

Ishac Diwan
Lecturer in Public Policy; Director for Africa and the Middle East, the Growth Lab of the Center for International Development, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University... Read more about Arab Crony Capitalism in an International Context

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar is pleased to present

Paul Salem
Vice President, the Middle East Institute; Department of Government, Harvard University, PhD, '87... Read more about The Arab Uprisings Three Years Later: Trajectories of Transition and Crisis

The Middle East Seminar is pleased to present

Lihi Ben Shitrit
Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Religion and Society, Harvard Divinity School; and Assistant Professor, School of Public and International Affairs, University of Georgia, Athens... Read more about Right-Wing Women: Women's Activism in Jewish and Muslim Religious-Political Movements

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar is pleased to present

Jubin M. Goodarzi
Assistant Professor and Researcher, International Relations Department, Webster University, Geneva, Switzerland... Read more about Iran and the Syrian Crisis: Whither the Tehran-Damascus Axis?

The Middle East Seminar is pleased to present

Avraham Burg
Author; former member and speaker of the Israeli Knesset; former chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel; cofounder of Molad (The Center for Israeli Democracy Renewal); and International Coordinator, The Brune Kreisky Forum, Vienna. His publications include: God is Back (2006) (Hebrew); The Holocaust Is Over: We Must Rise From its Ashes (2008) MacMillan; Avishag (2011); and Very Near to You (2012) Gefen.

PLEASE NOTE: this Middle East...

The Middle East Seminar is pleased to present

Richard Wright
Head of UNRWA Representative Office to the UN, New York; former EC Ambassador to Russia, and former Fellow at the Weatherhead Center, Harvard University... Read more about Escalating refugee crises in the Middle East and the case of the Palestine refugees

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar is pleased to present

Souad Mekhennet
Journalist and Associate in the Transatlantic Relations Program, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.... Read more about The Conflict in Syria: Its Regional and International Implications

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar is pleased to present

Shibley Telhami
Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development, University of Maryland, College Park; Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, the Brookings Institution.... Read more about The World Through Arab Eyes

The Middle East Seminar is pleased to present

Ambassador Thomas Pickering, Vice Chair, Hills & Company, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, 1997-2000, and U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation, India, El Salvador, Nigeria, Jordan and Israel; and the United Nations

Geoffrey Aronson, Director of Research and Publications, Foundation for Middle East Peace, Washington, DC

Contact: Marina Ivanova
Sponsors: Weatherhead...

The Middle East Seminar is pleased to present

Herbert C. Kelman
Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics, Emeritus, Harvard University; and co-chair, The Middle East Seminar... Read more about Is a Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Still Possible? The Perspective of a Strategic Optimist

The Middle East Seminar is pleased to present

Suad Amiry
Author of the prize-winning Sharon and My Mother-in-Law; Founder, Riwaq Centre for Architectural Conservation, Ramallah... Read more about Nothing to Lose But Your Life: An 18-Hour Journey with Murad- A Personal Account of Palestinian Workers in Israel After the Construction of the Separation Wall

The Middle East Seminar is pleased to present

Jean-Pierre Filiu, Professor of Middle East Studies, Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) 

Contact: Marina Ivanova
Sponsors: Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

As a Title VI National Resource Center, CMES is partially funding this program with U.S. Department of Education grant funds. The...

The Middle East Seminar is pleased to present

Ambassador Thomas Pickering, Vice Chair, Hills & Company, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, 1997-2000, and U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation, India, El Salvador, Nigeria, Jordan, and Israel and the United Nations

Geoffrey Aronson, Director of Research and Publications, Foundation for Middle East Peace, Washington, DC... Read more about U.S. Policy in a time of Transition: Ending Occupation, Enhancing Israel's Security, Realizing Palestinian Sovereignty (DATE CHANGE to APRIL 18)

The Middle East Seminar is pleased to present

Dr. Ron Pundak, Co-Chair, Palestinian-Israeli Peace NGO Forum

Contact: Marina Ivanova
Sponsors: Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

As a Title VI National Resource Center, CMES is partially funding this program with U.S. Department of Education grant funds. The content of this program does not necessarily...