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Congratulations, 2025-26 CMES Graduates!

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CMES is pleased to congratulate this year's graduating students in our AM and joint PhD programs. AM Graduates Arda Aslan Ida Beckett—Thesis: "'They Burnt My Beloved as If He Were Wood': The Origins, Treatment, and Entangled Characters of Coffee and...

Congratulations, 2024-25 CMES Graduates!

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CMES is pleased to congratulate this year's graduating students in our AM, AB/AM, and joint PhD programs. AM Graduates Mohammad Al-Mailam—Thesis: "Who Comes and Who Goes? Explaining Citizens" Migration Preferences in the Gulf" / Advisor: Melani Cammett...

Worldwide Week Brings Global Office Directors to Campus

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The Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs recently hosted Harvard’s eighth annual Worldwide Week at Harvard event. As part of the week, which ran October 5-12, the directors of several of the University’s global offices visited campus for...

Professor Roy Mottahedeh Has Passed Away

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The CMES community mourns the loss of our dear colleague and friend, Professor Roy Parviz Mottahedeh, who passed away on July 30. As a renowned scholar of Islamic history, Professor Mottahedeh inspired generations of students during his more than 30 years...

Amal Walks Across America

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Little Amal, whose name means “hope” in Arabic, is an internationally celebrated 12-foot-tall puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee girl. She has been welcomed by more than 250 uniquely created artistic events across the globe since her initial 5,000...

Nafplio Conference Caps Multi-year Byzantine Studies Initiative

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by Jesse Howell, PhD ’17, CMES Academic Programs Manager and Associate Director of the AM Program Certain dates stand out in the collective historical consciousness. On May 29, 1453, Ottoman forces under the command of the twenty-one-year-old Ottoman...

In the Shadow of History: A Summer in Tunisia

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In the summer of 2022, after a two-year hiatus due to Covid-19, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies’ five-week Arabic language program in Tunis made its long-awaited return. Led for a fifth time by the Gordon Gray Research Professor of Arabic and...