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Caitlin Schiffer, a reporter for BUTV10, Boston University's television station, produced this video piece about the April 16-17 performances of Feathers of Fire, a groundbreaking cinematic shadow play based on the Persian epic Shahnemeh (The Book of...

CMES Visiting Researcher Saime Ozcurumez presented a webinar titled "Politics and Policy of Immigration and Asylum in Europe," on January 25, 2016 Ozcurumez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at...

Sherman A. Jackson, King Faisal Chair in Islamic Thought and Culture and Professor of Religion and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, delivers the second lecture of the Fall 2013 H.A.R. Gibb Arabic and Islamic Studies...

Sherman A. Jackson, King Faisal Chair in Islamic Thought and Culture and Professor of Religion and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, delivers the first lecture of the Fall 2013 H.A.R. Gibb Arabic and Islamic Studies...

Robert Wisnovsky, James McGill Professor, Islamic philosophy and theology, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, delivers the second lecture of the 2015 H.A.R. Gibb Arabic and Islamic Studies Lecture Series. A handout and a projected slide are...

Robert Wisnovsky, James McGill Professor, Islamic philosophy and theology, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, delivers the first lecture of the 2015 H.A.R. Gibb Arabic and Islamic Studies Lecture Series. A handout and a projected slide are...

Kamel Daoud, Algerian journalist and author of The Meursault Investigation, gives a talk in French, moderated and with translation by Youssef Ben Ismail, CMES AM '14 and PhD candidate in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at...

Tunisian political cartoonist _Z_ made his first public appearance at Harvard in November 2013. This video is a synopsis of his talk, which told the story of his transition from architect to political cartoonist and dissident leading up to and during the...

This year's Annual Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Student Conferences at the Mahindra Humanities Center (April 13–14, 2012) addresses the question "How to end a revolution?" In preparation for the conference the student coordinators, who include...

Marc H. Ellis, University Professor of Jewish Studies, Professor of History, and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Baylor University, delivers the 2011 Hilda B. Silverman Lecture.