CMES in the Media

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...

Wicked Local photographer Paul Rutherford captured some choice images at the April 17, 2016, performance of Feathers of Fire: A Persion Epic, the hit shadow play based on the Persian epic Shahnameh. The Center for Middle Eastern Studies brought the...

Aleksandar Sopov, PhD candidate in the joint program of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the History Department, helped save Istanbul green spaces, but has broader hopes. "I had to save them," he says. “When those public places are erased, it...

Roy P. Mottahedeh, Gurney Professor of History, delivered a lecture titled " ʿAja’ib in the Book of Qazwini" on February 1 at the Yarmouk Cultural Center in Kuwait, as part of the Dar Al Athar Al Islamiyyah organization's Cultural Season 21. The talk...

CMES Steering Committee member Kristen Stilt, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Director of the HLS Islamic Legal Studies Program, talks to Harvard Magazine about animals' status under the law, her survey course on the growing field of animal law...

>Khaled Fahmy, the 2015-2016 Shawwaf Visiting Professor at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, shares his memories of Egypt's uprising, five years after Tahrir, in a Huffington Post/World Post interview.

As part of the Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Murat Güvenç, Professor of Sociology, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, and an affiliated faculty member of the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative, delivered a lecture...

Turkish journalist Cengiz Çandar, senior columnist, Radical, and op-ed writer, Al-Monitor, gave a talk co-sponsored by CMES, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and the Center for European Studies on September 10, 2015, titled "Understanding...

Minoo Emami's exhibit "War Collection" is on display through August 19, 2015, at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Room 102 (sculpture), and CGIS Knafel, Fisher Family Commons (paintings). The Harvard Gazette covered the exhibit opening in a June...

By Roger Owen The departure of the last US combat troops from Iraq has been the occasion for much comment in North America. Nevertheless, much of it seems to miss the point. For one thing, it is almost always based on the typically American assumption...