#  What seminars and workshops does CMES offer? 

 



CMES’s [seminar series and topical workshops](/seminar-lecture-series) bring regional experts and diverse perspectives to the Harvard community and beyond. CMES hosts long-standing public lecture series including the Middle East Seminar (co-sponsored with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs), the Middle East Forum, Sohbet-i Osmani (Ottoman history), New Works in Middle Eastern Studies book talks, Arabian Peninsula Lecture Series, Environmental History Seminar Series, and Disaster Studies Initiative Lecture Series. CMES has also organized working groups to address the ongoing transformations in the Arab world with an emphasis on politics, literature, and film and visual arts. Ad hoc roundtable forums organized at CMES on topical regional issues provide an interactive venue for timely scholarly discussion of complex events in the region with participants who have often just returned from the epicenter of these events.