Film & Visual Art

Please join the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and several of its student-veterans for a discussion of Clint Eastwood’s newest film: their reactions to the film, its wider reception, and reflections. Moderated by Professor Steven Caton. Featuring: John...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present a documentary film What A World with Robert Labaree, Mehmet Ali Sanlikol, Cem Mutlu, Brenna McCrimmon, Phaedon Sinis, Mal Barsamian; featuring special appearances from Cemal Kafadar. What A World...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present First To Fall A film by Rachel Beth Anderson Two friends abandoned their peaceful lives in Canada and return to their home country of Libya to fight in the revolution. Hamid (26) and Tarek (21)...

The Harvard Middle East Cultural Association (HMECA) and the Harvard Divinity School Muslim Council are pleased to present Elias Wakeem, aka Madame Tayoush Performance Artist Elias Wakeem, also known as Madam Tayoush, is an emerging queer Arab Palestinian...

The Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program and the Outreach Program at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies present a lecture and demonstration by Dr. Hamidreza Ghelichkhani Dr. Hamidreza Ghelichkhani was born in 1968 in Tehran and began seriously practicing...

CMES Outreach Program Documentary Film Screening Sleepless Nights (Layali Bala Noom) Screening and discussion with filmmaker Eliane Raheb Through the stories of Assaad Shaftari, a former high ranking intelligence officer in a Christian right wing militia...

Join a screening of The Mountain (Turkey, 2012), directed by Alper Çağlar, as part of the 2013-14 Middle East Film Series co-sponsored with Harvard Kennedy School's Middle East Initiative. Pizza and soda at 6:00 PM Screening starts at 6:15 PM Contact...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies , The Political Anthropology Working Group, and Jadaliyya present A Roundtable Discussion: The Gezi Protests and Dissident Visions of Turkey A discussion of the Gezi Park protests, which erupted in Istanbul in late...

Join a screening of Fill the Void (Israel, 2012) as part of the 2013-14 Middle East Film Series co-sponsored with Harvard Kennedy School's Middle East Initiative. Directed by Rama Burshtein, Fill the Void tells the story of an Orthodox Hassidic family...