The CMES Director's Series presents

Sarah DeMott, PhD
Middle East, Near East and Judaica Library Liaison, Librarian for the Freshman Seminar, Harvard College Library

Register: https://bit.ly/3iWVnmH​​​​​​​.

(This talk was originally titled The Sicilian Community of 19th Century Tunisia.​​​​​​​)... Read more about NEW TITLE: Archipelago of the Maghreb: Conceptualizing Mediterranean Movement between Sicily and Tunisia in the late 19th century

The CMES Director's Series presents

Gustavo Barbosa
Associate Researcher, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro

Discussant: Steven C. Caton (Harvard)

Register: https://bit.ly/30AkENi.

... Read more about The Wings of Desire or The Sky over Shatila: Precarity, Hope, and Gender among Palestinian Refugee Young Men in Lebanon

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Henry Munson
Professor of Anthropology Emeritus and Cooperating Professor, School of Policy & International Affairs, University of Maine; author, Islam and Revolution in the Middle East

Rescheduled from April 2020.

Register: https://bit.ly/3jZPvKM.

... Read more about How the US Turned Iraq into Iran’s Client State: The Unintended Consequences of a Myopic Foreign Policy

CMES Director's Series presents a screening of

Heads and Tails (2019)
A documentary on traveling hair

A film by Aylin Kuryel and Firat Yücel... Read more about Screening: "Heads and Tails" (2019)

CMES Modern Middle East Speaker Series presents

Nada Moumtaz
Assistant Professor, Department of the Study of Religion, University of Toronto

Please note: due to University precautions surrounding the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID 2019) outbreak, this lecture has been **CANCELLED**... Read more about **CANCELLED** Book talk: "Reviving the Waqf: Property, Law, and Religion in Modern Beirut"

CMES Modern Middle East Speaker Series & The Program in Islamic Law at HLS present

Darryl Li
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences in the College, and Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago

Please note: this event has been moved to Tsai Auditorium.... Read more about Book talk: "The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity"

The CMES Middle East Forum presents

Caitlin Procter, PhD
Max Weber Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute

Please note: due to University precautions surrounding the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID 2019) outbreak, this event has been **POSTPONED** to October 2020... Read more about **POSTPONED to OCT 2020** Escaping Blockade: The Politics of Youth Migration in Gaza

The CMES/WCFIA Middle East Seminar presents

Steven C. Caton
Khalid Bin Abdullah Bin Abdulrahman Al Saud Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University; author, Yemen Chronicle: An Anthropology of War and Mediation... Read more about **POSTPONED**: Yemen at the Crossroads: Present Conditions, Future Prospects

The CMES Director's Series presents

Suzy Hansen
Writer; 2018 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World

... Read more about Seeing America From a Distance -- Reflections from Turkey and Beyond

The Hrant Dink Memorial CMES Fund is pleased to present a talk and Karagöz puppet show featuring

Sona Tatoyan, stage & film actress, writer, and activist, and Ayhan Hülagü, journalist, actor, artist, and puppet master.

CMES welcomes Syrian-Armenian-American actress Sona Tatoyan as she presents her Armenian grandfather’s hand-made Karagöz shadow puppets,... Read more about Trauma, Magic, Love: Being In Aleppo with Karagöz Puppets, My Ancestors and the Spirit of Osman Kavala

CMES Modern Middle East Speaker Series presents

Nathalie Peutz
Associate Professor of Arab Crossroads Studies, NYU Abu Dhabi... Read more about Book talk: 'Islands of Heritage: Conservation and Transformation in Yemen'