# News Sort & Filters close ## Filters Multimedia expand\_more - Video (30) - Audio (6) - Photo Gallery (11) News Type expand\_more - CMES in the Media (93) - CMES News (216) - Faculty News (66) - Student News (72) - Student Profiles (21) - Alumni News (21) - Alumni Profiles (9) Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 448 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by NewestOldestAlphabetical A-ZAlphabetical Z-APublish Date (DESC)Publish Date (ASC) sort list grid\_view ## 448 results [### Congratulations, 2025-26 CMES Graduates! ](/news/2026/05/congratulations-2025-26-cmes-graduates) May 29, 2026 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 commencement reception, May 2025](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/Commence-2026.jpg?itok=xHrDiYj-) [### Professor Walid Khalidi: A Reflection ](/news/2026/05/professor-walid-khalidi-reflection) May 29, 2026 On March 8, 2026, Walid Khalidi died at the age of 100, and with his death we have lost one of the foremost scholars of modern Middle Eastern history. Throughout his century of life—and for over 80 consistent years of work—Professor Khalidi, who was a... ![Walid Khalidi, left](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/Walid-Khalidi_2.jpg?itok=62JBfp_X) [### Call for "Historical Truth" in Our Narrative of Nazi Defeat ](/news/2026/04/call-historical-truth-our-narrative-nazi-defeat) April 29, 2026 On April 23, Jochen Hellbeck, Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University, delivered the 2026 Hilda B. Silverman Memorial Lecture at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. In a revisionist history of WWII, Hellbeck argues that it was not the... ![Jochen Hellbeck](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/hellbeck.jpeg?itok=0_gqVUnf) [### Adam Mestyan Selected a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow ](/news/2026/04/adam-mestyan-selected-2026-guggenheim-fellow) April 16, 2026 Adam Mestyan, Ford Foundation Professor of Middle Eastern Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, has been selected by The Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation as a Fellow in the 101st class... ![Adam Mestyan](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/AdamMestyan.jpeg?h=b68fc3d3&itok=5AOiR44o) [### Remembering Baber Johansen, Renowned Scholar of Islamic Law at Harvard Divinity School ](/news/2026/03/remembering-baber-johansen-renowned-scholar-islamic-law-harvard-divinity-school) March 23, 2026 Baber Johansen, Professor of Islamic Studies Emeritus at Harvard Divinity School (HDS) and former Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, passed away in late January 2026. Johansen’s scholarship transformed the study of Islamic jurisprudence... ![Baber Johansen](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/cmes/files/fpa-johansen-found.jpg?itok=zXDSHMiO) [### Walid Khalidi, Scholar Called Father of Palestinian Studies, Dies at 100 ](/news/2026/03/walid-khalidi-scholar-called-father-palestinian-studies-dies-100) March 12, 2026 Long-time CMES Fellow Walid Khalidi died March 8 at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As a historian and diplomat, Khalidi gave intellectual shape to his people and made sure that they played a role in negotiating their future. Read about Khalidi's... ![Walid Khalidi, left](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/Walid-Khalidi_2.jpg?itok=62JBfp_X) [### In Memoriam: András Riedlmayer (1947-2026) ](/news/2026/02/memoriam-andras-riedlmayer-1947-2026) February 13, 2026 It is with profound sadness that I must report the passing, on February 9, of András Riedlmayer, who, starting in 1985, served for thirty-five years as the Bibliographer and Director at the Documentation Center of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic... ![András Riedlmayer](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/AndrasRiedlmayer.png?h=8f73e64d&itok=5ThwlFuF) [### Roy Parviz Mottahedeh, 84: Memorial Minute — Faculty of Arts and Sciences ](/news/2025/12/roy-parviz-mottahedeh-84-memorial-minute-faculty-arts-and-sciences) December 03, 2025 At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on December 2, 2025, a tribute to the life and service of the late Roy Parviz Mottahedeh was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty. Read the tribute to Roy Parviz Mottahedeh in the Harvard... ![Roy Parviz Mottahedeh, Harvard file photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-12/2006_Mottahedeh_Roy_Harvardfile.jpg?itok=XewuKfiB) [### In Memoriam: Roy Mottahedeh (Contributions by Arafat Razzaque, Han Hsien Liew, Sumaiya Hamdani) ](/news/2025/11/memoriam-roy-mottahedeh-contributions-arafat-razzaque-han-hsien-liew-sumaiya-hamdani) November 13, 2025 Editors at Maydan, an online publication of the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University, asked former students of the late Islamic and Iranian historian Roy Mottahedeh to reflect on his scholarship, personality, and impact... ![fpa-mottahedeh-cmes_3-5.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/cmes/files/fpa-mottahedeh-cmes_3-5.jpg?itok=P8X5Xony) [### Roger Owen, 83: Memorial Minute — Faculty of Arts and Sciences ](/news/2025/11/roger-owen-83-memorial-minute-faculty-arts-and-sciences) November 05, 2025 At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on November 4, 2025, a tribute to the life and service of the late Roger Owen was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty. Read the tribute to Roger Owen in the Harvard Gazette. ![Roger Owen, Harvard file photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-12/E.R.J.-Owen.jpg?itok=fKEmCxXL) [### An Interview with Gareth Doherty: Fieldwork, Borders, and the Landscape of Understanding ](/news/2025/10/interview-gareth-doherty-fieldwork-borders-and-landscape-understanding) October 29, 2025 “Landscape architecture is at a crossroads,” writes CMES Faculty Affiliate and Director of Graduate Studies Gareth Doherty in the introduction to his recent book, Landscape Fieldwork: How Engaging the World Can Change Design (2025). Even as digital tools... ![Gareth Doherty](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/cmes/files/garethdoherty_19023-01-1848s.png?h=a407b9a7&itok=pxo3T7L2) [### Congratulations, 2024-25 CMES Graduates! ](/news/2025/06/congratulations-2024-25-cmes-graduates) June 16, 2025 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... ![2024 CMES graduates](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/commencement-2024-group.jpg?itok=GD0J2Rga) - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [3](?page=2 "Go to page 3") - [ Last page 38 ](?page=37 "Go to last page") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")