The CMES Director's Series presents

Sarah DeMott, PhD
Middle East, Near East and Judaica Library Liaison, Librarian for the Freshman Seminar, Harvard College Library

Register: https://bit.ly/3iWVnmH​​​​​​​.

(This talk was originally titled The Sicilian Community of 19th Century Tunisia.​​​​​​​)... Read more about NEW TITLE: Archipelago of the Maghreb: Conceptualizing Mediterranean Movement between Sicily and Tunisia in the late 19th century

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Francesca Albanese
Human Rights Lawyer & affiliate scholar, Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University

Lex Takkenberg
Former Chief, Ethics Office, UNRWA, Amman, Jordan, and Legal Officer, Dutch Refugee Council

Discussant: Susan Akram, Clinical Professor and Supervising Attorney, Boston University International Human Rights Clinical Program, Boston University School of Law

Register: https://bit.ly/33xRobT.
... Read more about Palestinian Refugees in International Law: A Tale of Fragmentation and Opportunities

CMES is pleased to present the 2021 Hilda B. Silverman Memorial Lecturer

Daniel Boyarin
Hermann P. and Sophia Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture, Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley... Read more about Whither? The Jews as a Diaspora Nation

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Zeynep Tek
Research Assistant, Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Turkey

Register: 
https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkdOutrjotHNSLmLHRh6f4m7DFG1BW_F2y ... Read more about If Women Build a Government: An Anti-Feminist Dream Narrative in Early Republican Turkey

The CMES Modern Middle East Speaker Series and the Department of History, Harvard University present

Rosie Bsheer
Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University

Discussants: Beshara Doumani (Brown), Eve M. Troutt Powell (UPenn), Kirsten Weld (Harvard)

Moderator: Durba Mitra (Harvard)

Register: https://bit.ly/30CS65R.... Read more about Book talk: "Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia"

The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC), the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) present the workshop

The Ascendant Field
Critical Engagements with Ottoman Arabic Literature

RSVP here: 
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdqh8gm9-u4oicYbGBgZwdRIiQE3PCgUXxOqvX4Ji1JoWAtlQ/viewform

... Read more about The Ascendant Field: Critical Engagements with Ottoman Arabic Literature

The CMES Director's Series presents

Sa'ed Atshan
Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, Swarthmore College; Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology & Visiting Scholar in Middle Eastern Studies, Univ of California, Berkeley (2020-21), and, 

Katharina Galor
Hirschfeld Visiting Assistant Professor at the Program in Judaic Studies, Brown University

Register: https://bit.ly/2HEAjVa... Read more about Book talk: "The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians"

The CMES Director's Series presents

Charlotte Dennett  
Former Middle East reporter, investigative journalist, and attorney; co-author of Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil

Register: https://bit.ly/3ifneyp

... Read more about Book talk: "The Crash of Flight 3804: A Lost Spy, A Daughter’s Quest, and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil"

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Ali Banuazizi
Professor, Department of Political Science, Director of the Program in Islamic Civilization and Societies (ICS), and Chair of the International Studies Academic Advisory Board at Boston College

Discussant: Roy Mottahedeh, Gurney Professor of History Emeritus, Harvard University 

Register: https://bit.ly/374pE0z.

... Read more about The Failure of Religious Nationalism in Iran

The CMES Director's Series presents

Prof. Wafi Haj Majid
Chairman of Arabic & Literature Department, Global University, Beirut

Registration link: 
https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Tlz46tMQQeGR2KsdVgYSlg... Read more about Perspectives on Linguistic Security in the Arab World: The Quest for Literacy, Stability and Dignity