The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Rosie Bsheer
Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University... Read more about Title TBA

CMES Modern Middle East Speaker Series presents

Darryl Li
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences in the College, and Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago... Read more about Book talk: "The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity"

CMES Modern Middle East Speaker Series presents

Fadi A. Bardawil
Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University... Read more about Book talk: "Revolution and Disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation"

CMES Modern Middle East Speaker Series presents

Lâle Can
Assistant Professor, Department of History, The City College of New York... Read more about Book talk: "Spiritual Subjects: Central Asian Pilgrims and the Ottoman Hajj at the End of Empire"

CMES Modern Middle East Speaker Series presents

Sara D. Pursley
Assistant Professor, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University... Read more about Book talk: "Familiar Futures Time, Selfhood, and Sovereignty in Iraq"

The CMES/WCFIA Middle East Seminar presents

Henry L. Munson, Jr.
Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, University of Maine; author, Islam and Revolution in the Middle East... Read more about How the US Turned Iraq into Iran’s Client State: The Unintended Consequences of a Myopic Foreign Policy

The CMES/WCFIA Middle East Seminar presents

Steven C. Caton
Khalid Bin Abdullah Bin Abdulrahman Al Saud Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University; author, Yemen Chronicle: An Anthropology of War and Mediation... Read more about Yemen at the Crossroads: Present Conditions, Future Prospects

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Ibrahim Khatib
Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University... Read more about Understanding the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Between Perceptions, Democratic Values and Reconciliation

CMES Meet the Director Series presents

Hamid Rahmanian 
Designer and Director

Join CMES for a screening of Hamid Rahmanian's film version of Feathers of Fire, a spectacular shadow puppet play based on the Persian epic, Shahnameh.

Watch the trailer: 
https://bit.ly/2PZrLKy.

Free and open to the public; no tickets required. Seating is first come, first served.... Read more about Meet the Director: Hamid Rahmanian and a Film Screening of "Feathers of Fire"

The CMES Middle East Forum presents

Mansour Salsabili
Research Fellow, CMES, Harvard University... Read more about Religiosity and Violence: Shiite Ulama Responses to Modernization and the 1906 Constitutional Revolution

The CMES Director's Series presents

Suzy Hansen
Writer; 2018 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World

... Read more about Seeing America From a Distance -- Reflections from Turkey and Beyond

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Ridha Moumni
Tunisia Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies

(Please note: this talk was originally scheduled for February 19)... Read more about (Date change) Modernism and Political Modernity: Tunisian Art in the Time of Bourguiba (1957-1979)

The Center for the Study of World Religions & CMES present

Benjamin Balint, writer based in Jerusalem, and

Merav Mack, Research fellow, Truman Institute for Peace, Hebrew University of Jerusalem... Read more about Jerusalem: City of the Book

The CMES Middle East Forum presents

Karam Dana
Associate Professor of Middle East Politics and Islamic Studies, University of Washington Bothell... Read more about The "Deals" of the Century From Balfour to Trump: The Political Economy of Failure and a New Palestinian Response