The 2019 Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture, "Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad in Conversation with Jennifer Leaning," took place on April 3 at the Memorial Church at Harvard. Nadia Murad is the corecipient of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, and is a leading advocate for survivors of genocide and sexual violence. Murad’s peaceful life was savagely interrupted in 2014 when Daesh attacked her homeland in Sinjar, with the intention of ethnically cleansing Iraq of all Yazidis. Like many minority groups, the Yazidis have carried the weight of historical persecution. Women in particular...

Nadia Murad came to Harvard as a survivor of genocide under ISIS, an advocate for victims of sexual violence, and the first Iraqi citizen to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Her talk at the Memorial Church, as part of the Weatherhead Center’s Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture Series, co-sponsored this year by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, focused on her personal journey and how her ordeal turned her into an activist. Read more about her talk in the...

Ellen Stockert is a second-year student in the AM in Middle Eastern Studies program.... Read more about Profile: Ellen Stockert

On September 5, Professors Tarek Masoud, of Harvard Kennedy School, and Roger Owen, from the Department of History, along with graduate student Sarah Moawad, who recently returned to campus after several weeks in Egypt, discussed that country's recent unrest in front of a capacity crowd at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Read the full article in the Harvard Gazette.