2014 Feb 18 The Middle East Beyond Borders Graduate Workshop Featuring Arafat Razzaque and Kimberly Wortmann 6:00pm to 7:30pm Location: CMES, Room 208, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MAThe Middle East Beyond Borders: Culture, Religion, Politics, an interdisciplinary graduate workshop is pleased to present Arafat Razzaque, PhD student, History/MES"Scandalous Knowledge: Transgression, Social Reputation and the Construction of a Moral Community in Medieval Baghdad," and... Read more about The Middle East Beyond Borders Graduate Workshop Featuring Arafat Razzaque and Kimberly Wortmann
2012 Oct 25 Railway Orientalism: Applying 'Expertise' in a German-Ottoman 19th Century 4:30pm to 6:00pm Location: CMES, 38 Kirkland Street, Room 208, Cambridge, MA 02138A Middle East Beyond Borders graduate workshop with Peter ChristensenPhD Candidate, Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning... Read more about Railway Orientalism: Applying 'Expertise' in a German-Ottoman 19th Century
2012 Sep 27 Dissipating Dissent: Space and Power in Contemporary Morocco 4:30pm to 6:00pm Location: CMES, 38 Kirkland Street, Room 102, Cambridge, MA 02138A Middle East Beyond Borders graduate workshop with Amin AlsadenPhD Student, GSD... Read more about Dissipating Dissent: Space and Power in Contemporary Morocco
2013 Apr 11 Interaction between ‘Reformist’ Muslim scholars and the Western-European academia and public sphere (1989-2009) 6:00pm to 7:30pm Location: CMES, 38 Kirkland Street, Room 102, Cambridge, MA 02138A Middle East Beyond Borders graduate workshop with Pegah Zohouri HaghianCMES Fellow, Harvard UniversityDPhil student in Oriental (Middle Eastern) Studies, University of Oxford... Read more about Interaction between ‘Reformist’ Muslim scholars and the Western-European academia and public sphere (1989-2009)
2012 Nov 29 From Law as Grammar to Law as Natural Science: Reforming Modern Islamic Jurisprudence 4:30pm to 6:00pm Location: CMES, 38 Kirkland Street, Room 102, Cambridge, MA 02138A Middle East Beyond Borders graduate workshop with Aria NakissaJD HLS, PhD Anthropology and Middle Eastern StudiesPost-doctoral Research Fellow, Brandeis University... Read more about From Law as Grammar to Law as Natural Science: Reforming Modern Islamic Jurisprudence
2012 Oct 11 Making a Mufti Grand: Creating Religious Leadership in Colonial and Post-colonial Lebanon 4:30pm to 6:00pm Location: CMES, 38 Kirkland Street, Room 208, Cambridge, MA 02138A Middle East Beyond Borders graduate workshop with Alexander HenleyPhD Student, Middle Eastern Studies, University of ManchesterVisiting Fellow, CMES, Harvard University... Read more about Making a Mufti Grand: Creating Religious Leadership in Colonial and Post-colonial Lebanon
2013 Mar 14 An Ethnography of Bribery and the Interplay Between Formal and Informal norms: The case of Tunisian “sex crimes” 6:00pm to 7:30pm Location: Kresge Room (Barker Center)A Middle East Beyond Borders graduate workshop with Dr. Maaike VoorhoeveIslamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law SchoolUniversity of Amsterdam... Read more about An Ethnography of Bribery and the Interplay Between Formal and Informal norms: The case of Tunisian “sex crimes”
2013 Mar 14 Space and Control in a Contested Gulf City: the fight for Kirkuk since the 1950s 6:00pm to 7:30pm Location: Kresge Room (Barker Center)A Middle East Beyond Borders graduate workshop with Arbella Bet-Shlimon PhD History and Middle Eastern StudiesCollege Fellow, Department of History... Read more about Space and Control in a Contested Gulf City: the fight for Kirkuk since the 1950s
