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Video: "How to End a Revolution": Interviews with Malika Zeghal and Roger Owen

April 10, 2012

This year's Annual Interdisciplinary Humanities Graduate Student Conferences at the Mahindra Humanities Center (April 13–14, 2012) addresses the question "How to end a revolution?" In preparation for the conference the student coordinators, who include CMES AM student Scott Liddle, produced a series of videos in which conference participants provide their perspective on the topic. The videos were produced by the Harvard Law Documentary Studio.

CMES faculty members Malika Zeghal and Roger Owen consider "how to end a revolution" in Tunisia and Egypt in the videos below. ...

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2012 Apr 26

Israel's Receding Democracy in the Context of the Arab "Spring" and a Failing Peace Process

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS, Knafel Building, Room 262, 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar is pleased to present

Naomi Chazan
Professor Emerita of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; President of the New Israel Fund; Dean of the School of Government and Society (Academic College of Tel-Aviv Yaffo); Former Deputy Speaker of the Knesset

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2012 Feb 29

The Impact of Leadership Style on Foreign Policy Decision-Making: Turgut Ozal and Recep Tayyip Erdogan Compared

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

CGIS, Knafel Building, Room 262, 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA

CMES & The Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World are pleased to present

C. Ersa Cuhadar Gurkaynak
Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey... Read more about The Impact of Leadership Style on Foreign Policy Decision-Making: Turgut Ozal and Recep Tayyip Erdogan Compared

2012 Mar 21

From Resistance to Government: Hamas’s Political Participation and its Struggle for International Recognition in the Post-Arafat Era

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

CMES, 38 Kirkland Street, Room 102

The Middle East Forum is pleased to present

Paola Caridi
Middle East Correspondent, Lettera22; historian and author, Hamas: From Resistance to Government... Read more about From Resistance to Government: Hamas’s Political Participation and its Struggle for International Recognition in the Post-Arafat Era

Op-ed by Sara Roy: "It's worth putting Hamas to the test"

January 9, 2012

CMES Associate Sara Roy has published an op-ed in The Hill's Congress Blog, titled "It's worth putting Hamas to the test." Dr. Roy's research focuses primarily on the economic, social, and political development of the Gaza Strip. Her latest book Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector (Princeton University Press, 2011), was ...

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2011 Nov 16

Islamism vs. Secularism: The Arab Spring, Phase Two

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

CMES, 38 Kirkland Street, Room 102

The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard, The Center for Middle Eastern Studies Outreach Center, The Moroccan Studies Program, and the American Islamic Congress and Project Nur are pleased to present

Ahmed Benchemsi
Visiting Scholar, The Program on Arab Reform and Democracy at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, Stanford University.... Read more about Islamism vs. Secularism: The Arab Spring, Phase Two

2011 Nov 18

Egypt: The Electoral Past as a Guide to the Electoral Present and Future

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

CMES, 38 Kirkland Street, Room 102

The Middle East Forum is pleased to present

Roger Owen, A.J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History, Harvard University

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Discussant: Yoram Meital, Chairman, the Chaim Herzog Center for Middle East Studies and Diplomacy, Ben-Gurion University; & Visiting Fellow, Islamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School... Read more about Egypt: The Electoral Past as a Guide to the Electoral Present and Future

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