History

Students in HIST-1891 “Understanding the Middle East since 1945: The Basic Socio-Economic and Political Structures” and HIST 78a “The Middle East during the First Wave of Modern Globalization 1870-1925” this semester will be the last at Harvard to benefit...

Marc H. Ellis, University Professor of Jewish Studies, Professor of History, and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Baylor University, delivers the 2011 Hilda B. Silverman Lecture.

Eric Chaney, Assistant Professor of Economics at Harvard University and a CMES Steering Committee member, focuses his research on economic history, applied econometrics, development, and Middle Eastern history. In a podcast on Vox, he discusses his...

CMES faculty member and noted historian E. Roger Owen, A.J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History, was honored with the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) “Award for Outstanding Contributions to Middle Eastern Studies, 2010” in Barcelona...

Forgotten Saints: History, Power, and Politics in the Making of Modern Morocco by Sahar Bazzaz (CMES PhD '02), is the latest title in CMES's Harvard Middle Eastern Monograph series. The book is available for purchase through Harvard University Press...

CMES Professor Roger Owen's book "Lord Cromer: Victorian Imperialist, Edwardian Proconsul" (Oxford University Press, 2004), will be the subject of a Translation Salon held on May 23rd during the American University in Cairo's (AUC) Seventh Annual Forum On...