History

WCFIA/CMES presents the Middle East Seminar Dahlia Scheindlin, Ph.D. Visiting Fellow, Department of Political Science and Penn Global, University of Pennsylvania Discussant: Derek Penslar, Ph.D., William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, Director of...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents Aaron David Shakow, PhD Lecturer, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School This talk will discuss tuberculosis among Syrian migrants in Lebanon and how the response to it...

The Harvard History Department and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a symposium "New Approaches to Palestinian History" Registration required: register here (limited to the Harvard community). 10:00am-11:15am, Keynote address Beshara Doumani...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present Arwa Labidi Assistant Professor, University of Jendouba, Tunisia; Hazem Ben-Gacem Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for MIddle Eastern Studies, Harvard University Arwa Labidi is a Tunisian historian...

The Disaster Studies Initiative at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a conference Disasters in and of the Middle East: Event, Place, Intensity Foregrounding the Middle East and North Africa in scholarly discourse on disasters, the Disaster...

The Disaster Studies Initiative at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a conference Disasters in and of the Middle East: Event, Place, Intensity Foregrounding the Middle East and North Africa in scholarly discourse on disasters, the Disaster...

The Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program presents Rudolph Matthee John A. Munroe and Dorothy L. Munroe Chair of History, University of Delaware RSVP here . This book [presentation] debunks the myth that, since alcohol is forbidden in Islam,...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents M. Fatih Çalışır, PhD Assistant Professor of History, Istanbul University Institute of Islamic Studies/Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University Joan Blaue’s Atlas Maior, a...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents Dr. Aram Ghalali Instructor in Surgery, Harvard Medical School The town of Halabja is located in Iraqi Kurdistan, and on March 16th 1988, it was subjected to large-scale attacks with chemical weapons...

The Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program presents Kevin Blankinship Associate Professor of Arabic at Brigham Young University Register here . Abstract: The staunch vegan, satirist, moralist, and witty man of letters Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī (d...