The CMES New Works in Middle East Studies series presents

Efe Murat Balıkçıoğlu
Faculty Fellow in Islamic History, Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University

Discussant: Maryam Patton, PhD Candidate in History and Middle East Studies, CMES, Harvard University... Read more about Book talk "Verifying the Truth on Their Own Terms Ottoman Philosophical Culture and the Court Debate Between Zeyrek (d. 903/1497-98 [?]) and Ḫocazāde (d. 893/1488)"

The CMES New Works in Middle East Studies series presents

Nora Barakat
Assistant Professor of History, Stanford University... Read more about Book talk "Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire"

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Malika Zeghal, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Malika Zeghal discusses her new book, The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa (Princeton University Press, 2024)... Read more about The Making of the Modern Muslim State. Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Derek Penslar, William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, Harvard University, and

Shaul Magid, Dartmouth College Distinguished Fellow in Jewish Studies and Visiting Professor of Modern Jewish Studies, Harvard Divinity School

**Open to Harvard ID holders only**... Read more about Israel’s Third Transformation: Electoral Politics and the Future of the State

The Center for MIddle Eastern Studies presents

Rashid Khalidi
Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies, Columbia University

Moderated by Rosie Bsheer, Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of History, Harvard University

**Open to Harvard ID holders only**... Read more about The Ongoing Nakba: Engaging Critically with Palestine

Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Renk Özdemir
Assistant Professor of International Relations at Hacettepe University; Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies... Read more about International Politics and the Redrawing of the Bulgaro-Turkish Frontier in the Year 1913

Israel-Hamas War? Tackling the Root Causes

with

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (occupied Palestinian territories)
Moderator: Chris Williams, Clinical Instructor, HLS

Registration required: https://bit.ly/3S8NZdn
 
Description: The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, Ms. Francesca Albanese, will be discussing the current situation in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory and the international legal implications of the events that unfolded since October 7.... Read more about Israel-Hamas War? Tackling the Root Causes

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Zeynep Tek 
Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies; Assistant Professor of Modern Turkish Literature, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University

... Read more about Oneiric Battles: Feminism and Anti-Feminism through Dream Allegories in Early 20th-Century Turkish Periodicals

The CMES Disaster Studies Initiative is pleased to present

Aleksandar Shopov
Visiting Scholar, CMES; Assistant Professor, History, SUNY Binghamton University... Read more about Chasing Floods: the Ottoman Introduction of Rice in the Balkan Peninsula

The CMES New Works in Middle Eastern Studies series presents

Alice Wilson
Senior Lecturer in Anthropology (Anthropology); Senior Lecturer in Anthropology (International Development), School of Global Studies, University of Sussex... Read more about Book talk: "Afterlives of Revolution: Everyday Counterhistories in Southern Oman"

The Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program presents

Amina Elbendary
Shawwaff Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

RSVP Here... Read more about Lives and Miracles: Narratives of Medieval Coptic and Muslim saints

The CMES Disaster Studies Initiative presents

Nasser Rabbat
Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture,  MIT... Read more about The 'Khitat' of al-Maqrizi: Narrating History on the Tempo of 'Kharab'

The CMES Disaster Studies Initiative is pleased to present

Saptarishi Bandopadhyay
Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University... Read more about The Conservation of Catastrophe: An Agenda for Research

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar is pleased to present

Paul F. Saba, Esq.
International Energy Lawyer... Read more about War, Ambitions, and Actualities in the Energy Theater of the Middle East and Beyond