The Tunisia Office of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies & The Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece, Harvard University are pleased to announce the premiere of the short film they co-produced during summer 2020:

#AFTER LOCKDOWN: VERY SHORT STORIES ABOUT ENDURING A GLOBAL PANDEMIC... Read more about Film discussion: "#After Lockdown - Very Short Stories about Enduring a Global Pandemic"

The Film & Visual Studies Screen Studies Workshop presents

Rasha Salti
Researcher, writer, curator of art and film

Please note: due to University precautions surrounding the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID 2019) outbreak, this event has been **CANCELLED**  

... Read more about **CANCELLED** The Secret Lives of Images

The CMES Meet the Director Series presents

Bab Al-Sama Maftuh (Morocco, 1988)
(A Door to the Sky; Une porte sur le ciel) written and directed by Farida Benlyazid

Please note: due to University precautions surrounding the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID 2019) outbreak, this event has been **POSTPONED**  

Free admission, open to the public.... Read more about **POSTPONED** Film screening: "Bab Al-Sama Maftuh (A Door to the Sky)" (Morocco, 1988)

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)

MEdiNA GSD is pleased to present

Rosana Elkhatib
Co-Founder of f-architecture; designer, curator, researcher and writer... Read more about On Feminist Labors

CMES Meet the Director Series presents

Hamid Rahmanian 
Designer and Director

Join CMES for a screening of Hamid Rahmanian's film version of Feathers of Fire, a spectacular shadow puppet play based on the Persian epic, Shahnameh.

Watch the trailer: 
https://bit.ly/2PZrLKy.

Free and open to the public; no tickets required. Seating is first come, first served.... Read more about Meet the Director: Hamid Rahmanian and a Film Screening of "Feathers of Fire"

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Ridha Moumni
Tunisia Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies

(Please note: this talk was originally scheduled for February 19)... Read more about (Date change) Modernism and Political Modernity: Tunisian Art in the Time of Bourguiba (1957-1979)

The Committee on Medieval Studies presents

Samuel England
Associate Professor of Arabic, University of Wisconsin-Madison... Read more about Arabic Classes and Classics in the Opera House

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

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents the film

Haytarma (2013)... Read more about Film screening: Haytarma (2013)

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a screening and discussion with filmmaker

Anahita Ghazvinizadeh
Assistant Professor of Cinematic Arts, University of Iowa; first prize winner at 2013 Cannes Film Festival

A screening of two short films, "When the Kid Was a Kid" and "Needle", followed by a Q&A with the director... Read more about Film Screening & Discussion with Director Anahita Ghazvinizadeh