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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...

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...

CMES is pleased to congratulate this year's graduating students in our AM program. AM Graduates Chacier Alexander—Thesis: "Political Philosophy and Esotericism: A Study of Al-Farabi and Leo Strauss" / Advisor: Khaled El-Rouayheb Naif Alrogi Hamad...

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...

CMES is pleased to congratulate this year's graduating students in our AM and PhD programs. AM Graduates Shamma Faisal Al Bastaki—Thesis: "Al-Majaz: A Crossing" / Advisor: Steve Caton / CMES Thesis Prize Faisal Alghassab Giulia Benvenuto—Thesis: "Islam as...

Deren Ertas is a PhD candidate in history and middle eastern studies at Harvard. She was in Istanbul doing research when, beginning on February 6, 2023, a series of powerful earthquakes struck areas of southern and central Turkey and northern and western...

" The Ascendant Field: Critical Engagements with Ottoman Arabic Literature," edited by Ghayde Ghraowi and Hacı Osman Gündüz (Ozzy), a special issue of Philological Encounters 7, no. 3-4, is now available from Brill. The issue grew out of a workshop that...

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...

CMES is pleased to congratulate this year's graduating students in our AM and PhD programs. AM Graduates Reilly Barry Christina Bouri—Thesis: "Mīrī and Mawat: From the 1858 Ottoman Land Code to Modern Israeli Land Grabs in the West Bank" / Advisor: Rosie...

In northern Tunisia, seaside Tabarka has played a central role in coral fishing and cross-Mediterranean trade since at least the 15th century. Today, red coral continues to be traded across the sea, despite reef degradation and the informal workings of...