The Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World presents

Soner Cagaptay
Bayer Family Fellow and Director, Turkish Research Institute, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy... Read more about Turkish Foreign Policy Between the Syrian Civil War and Russia

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Mehrzad Boroujerdi
Professor and Chair of the Political Science Department, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University
... Read more about Analyzing the 2016 Parliamentary and Experts Assembly Elections in Iran

The Middle East Seminar presents

Karim Sadjadpour
Senior Associate, Middle East Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace... Read more about The Geopolitics of the Iran Deal: Winners and Losers

The CMES Middle East Forum presents

Co-authors Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami... Read more about Book talk: "Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War"

The CMES Middle East Forum and the HKS Middle East Initiative present

Mouin Rabbani
Senior fellow, Institute for Palestinian Studies; independent analyst specializing in Palestinian affairs & the Arab-Israeli conflict
... Read more about Fail Better: The United Nations and Syria

The Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World presents

H. Tolga Bolukbasi
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, Bilkent University, Ankara; Fulbright Senior Fellow and Visiting Scholar, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies... Read more about Continuity and Change in Turkey’s Political Economy

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Hilary Falb-Kalisman
Visiting Post-doctoral Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies

PLEASE NOTE: this talk will now take place at 12:00 pm.
... Read more about TIME CHANGE: Schooling the State: A Transnational History of Public Education and Governance in the 20th century Middle East

MEdiNA, the Harvard GSD's MENA student group, presents

Scales of Syria, a symposium on the Syrian crisis at the Harvard Graduate School of Design... Read more about Scales of Syria (symposium)

The CMES Middle East Forum presents

Wesam Al Madhoun
Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering, Islamic University of Gaza; Visiting Scholar, MIT; MIT-Malaysia Sustainable Cities Program... Read more about Environmental Challenges and Socio-Economic Conditions in Gaza: A Livable Place?

The Middle East Seminar presents

Nadav Samin
Lecturer, Anthropology and Government, Dartmouth College... Read more about The Ceaseless Quest for Saudi Arabia: Central Arabian Nationhood and its Spillover Effects

The Harvard Book Store welcomes SHIRIN EBADI, the first Muslim woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, for a presentation of her book Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran... Read more about "Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran"

CMES presents a symposium

Iraq: Possible Futures - Including a return to the past... Read more about Iraq: Possible Futures - Including a return to the past

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Karyn Thomas
Founder and Co-Director of Small Projects Istanbul... Read more about The Syrian Refugee Crisis: Rebuilding Lives through Sustainable Grassroots Initiatives

The Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World presents

Saime Ozcurumez
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Bilkent University, Ankara; Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University and Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School... Read more about The Emerging Immigration and Asylum Regime in Turkey

The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Seminar Series presents

İpek Kocaomer Yosmaoğlu
Assistant Professor, History, Northwestern University

İpek Yosmaoğlu (Ph.D. Princeton, 2005) is an historian of the late Ottoman Empire. She taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton before joining the history department at Northwestern in 2010. Her research interests include nationalism, violence, political legitimacy and state modernization. She has completed a book entitled Blood Ties:...