The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar is pleased to present

Shaul Magid
Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College and Visiting Professor of Modern Jewish Studies at Harvard University, and

Derek Penslar
William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University

This event has been postponed until further notice.... Read more about POSTPONED: The Israeli Protest Movement: Is 'Jewish and Democratic' Really Possible?”: A conversation with Professors Shaul Magid and Derek Penslar

The CMES/WCFIA Middle East Seminar is pleased to present

Trita Parsi
Executive Vice President, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, and

Fatemeh Haghighatjoo
CEO, Nonviolent Initiative for Democracy and former member of the Iranian Parliament

Discussant: Stephen Kinzer, Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University and author of All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror

This talk will take place on Zoom; please register in advance: https://bit.ly/3GTkwgS.
... Read more about Examining Iran’s Domestic and Foreign Relations: From Achievements and Limitations of the Protest Movement to the Saudi-Iranian Agreement

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Pınar Şenışık
Associate Professor, Department of International Relations at Doğuş University, Turkey... Read more about Remembering the Turco-Greek Population Exchange: Dispossession and Forced Migration from Crete in the Early Twentieth Century

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Marwa Shalaby
Assistant professor of Political Science and Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison... Read more about Contentious Politics and Parliamentary Responsiveness in Autocracies: the Case of Jordan

CMES is pleased to present a virtual talk with

Djallil Lounnas
Associate Professor of International Relations at Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco

Register in advance on Zoom: https://bit.ly/3Irx5jB
... Read more about National Reconciliation in Algeria (1999-2020): Deradicalization and Strategies of Disengagement from Violent Extremism

CMES is pleased to present the Hazem Ben-Gacem Postdoctoral Fellow

Yosra Amraoui
Associate Professor at the High Institute of Languages of Tunis... Read more about Poetics of Carcerality: A Comparative Study of Maghrebean Prison Narratives

Please join us for lunch and a discussion about Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence and Roadblocks to Political Expression, a new book from 

Amahl A. Bishara, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University

Moderator/Respondent: Raef Zreik, Religion and Public Life Visiting Scholar in Conflict and Peace, Harvard Divinity School

To attend this lecture, please register in advance here: https://bit.ly/3XG8L3i

... Read more about Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence and Roadblocks to Political Expression - Book Event with Amahl Bishara

The CMES/WCFIA Middle East Seminar is pleased to present

Emre Toros, Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science, Dean, Faculty of Communication, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey; Visiting Scholar, CMES Spring 2023

Discussant: Ali Çarkoğlu, Professor of Political Science at Koç University, Istanbul... Read more about Elections, Electoral Integrity, and Democracy in Contemporary Turkey: Light at the End of the Tunnel?

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present

Erdem Sönmez
Assistant Professor, Social Sciences University of Ankara... Read more about Constructing the Past in a Fractured Present: A History of Late Ottoman Historical Writing, 1839-1922

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar is pleased to present

Karam Dana
Alyson McGregor Distinguished Professor of Excellence and Transformative Research at the University of Washington Bothell... Read more about American Public Views Towards the Middle East: The Political Psychology of Racialization

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar is pleased to present

Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian 
Lawrence D Biele Chair in Law, Institute of Criminology-Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and Chair in Global Law, Queen Mary University of London

Discussant: M. Brinton Lykes, PhD, Professor of Community-Cultural Psychology and Co-Director of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice, Boston College

... Read more about Jerusalem: Examining Settler Colonialism and Undoing Colonial Knowledge Production

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
Lawrence D Biele Chair in Law, Institute of Criminology—Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem & Chair in Global Law, Queen Mary University of London

Please note: this event has been postponed to March 30; details about March 30 can be found here: https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/jerusalem-examining-settler-colonialism-and-undoing-colonial-knowledge-production​​​​​​​​​​​​​​... Read more about POSTPONED: Jerusalem: Examining Settler Colonialism and Undoing Colonial Knowledge Production

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar & the CMES Middle East Forum present

Nadim Rouhana
Professor of International Negotiation and Conflict Studies, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

Discussant: Atalia Omer, Professor of Religion, Conflict and Peace Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame, and the T. J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding, Harvard Divinity School

Please note: this talk was originally scheduled for April 20.... Read more about DATE CHANGE: Decolonizing Israel: The Potential Contribution of the Palestinian Citizens

The CMES/WCFIA Middle East Seminar is pleased to present

Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Principal, Common Forces LLC, and former President and CEO, TRANSAFRICA Forum

Discussant: Ardi Imseis, Assistant Professor of Law, Queen’s University and former Member of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Yemen... Read more about Is Western Sahara More than a Desert? The Struggle for Sahrawi Freedom and the Implications for US foreign policy