Garbage is the economic engine of Cairo's Manshayet Nasser neighborhood, also known as "Garbage City." This is the home of the Zabaleen – the city's community of traditional garbage collectors. The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, the Outreach Center at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the Semitic Museum present film clips and conversation, "Garbage City and the Informal Economy." This free event will be followed by a public reception.... Read more about Garbage City and the Informal Economy: Documentary on Cairo's Manshayet Nasser neighborhood
Adams House Art Space Adams Courtyard Entrance on Bow St.
This workshop for Harvard undergraduates offers students the opportunity to “translate” research, scholarship, and ideas into graphic representations such as comics, collage, and sequential art. Students will be invited to learn and draw inspiration from contemporary modes of Islamicate art which play with the boundaries between word and image, including graphic novels and “calligraffiti.” No artistic experience is necessary.... Read more about Drawing Words and Writing Pictures: An art making workshop for undergraduates
The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard, The Center for Middle Eastern Studies Outreach Center, The Moroccan Studies Program, and the American Islamic Congress and Project Nur are pleased to present
Contact: Anna Sponsor(s): Middle East Initiative, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Outreach Center at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Contact: Anna Sponsor(s): Middle East Initiative, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Outreach Center at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Harvard Film Archive 24 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138
Join us for a screening of Back Home by Dir. Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche (2006) on Sunday March 4, 2012 at 7 PM at the Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA.
The Middle East Initiative and the Outreach Center at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies are supporting the screening of this film by the Harvard Film Archive by purchasing 40 tickets.
Political upheaval in the Middle East and larger Muslim world, from the Arab Spring to recent protests against a film denigrating Muhammad, leave us with the impression that the peoples of the Middle East—and of the wider Muslim world—are increasingly becoming anti-American and anti-Western in their sentiments.... 
Join the Mideast Film Series for a screening of Where Do We Go Now? (Lebanon, 2011) directed by Nadine Labaki, 110 minutes. 
Online book discussion for educators and the general public on 
Online book discussion and author talk on In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez (1994) with Julia Alvarez and the 
You are invited to attend a book talk by Professor Roger Owen on his new book The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life (2012) Harvard University Press.... 
Garbage is the economic engine of Cairo's Manshayet Nasser neighborhood, also known as "Garbage City." This is the home of the Zabaleen – the city's community of traditional garbage collectors. The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, the Outreach Center at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the Semitic Museum present film clips and conversation, "Garbage City and the Informal Economy." This free event will be followed by a public reception.... 
This workshop for Harvard undergraduates offers students the opportunity to “translate” research, scholarship, and ideas into graphic representations such as comics, collage, and sequential art. Students will be invited to learn and draw inspiration from contemporary modes of Islamicate art which play with the boundaries between word and image, including graphic novels and “calligraffiti.” No artistic experience is necessary....