Literature

2020 Apr 14

Rescued from Rubble: Founding the Edward Said Public Library in Gaza

5:30pm to 7:00pm

Location:

Lamont Library, Forum Room, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138

The Harvard Scholars at Risk Program presents

Mosab Abu Toha
Visiting poet and scholar, Harvard University Scholars at Risk Program, hosted by the Department of Comparative Literature; visiting librarian-in-residence, Houghton Library

Free and open to the public.
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2020 Feb 25

Book talk: "Narrating Muslim Sicily: War and Peace in the Medieval Mediterranean World"

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location:

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

CMES and the Committee on Medieval Studies present

William E. Granara
Gordon Gray Professor of the Practice of Arabic, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations & Department of Comparative Literature; Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University... Read more about Book talk: "Narrating Muslim Sicily: War and Peace in the Medieval Mediterranean World"

2019 Nov 22

Meet the Director: Hamid Rahmanian and a Film Screening of "Feathers of Fire"

6:00pm to 8:00pm

Location:

Science Center Hall E, Science Center, 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138

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"

2019 Nov 06

The Catastrophe of Translation

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location:

Barker Center, Rm 230, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The Mahindra Center for the Humanities Rethinking Translation Seminar presents

Adriana X. Jacobs Adriana Jacobs
Associate Professor and Cowley Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Literature; Fellow, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Oxford... Read more about The Catastrophe of Translation

2019 Nov 12

Jerusalem: City of the Book

5:30pm to 7:00pm

Location:

Common Rm, Center for Study of World Religions, 42 Francis Ave, Cambridge, MA

The Center for the Study of World Religions & CMES present

Benjamin Balint, writer based in Jerusalem, and Jerusalem: City of the Book

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

2019 Oct 15

'The Baghdad Clock': A Book Talk with the Author and Translator

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location:

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

The Baghdad Clock cover Shahad Al Rawi, author of The Baghdad Clock, short-listed for the 2018 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF), and

Luke Leafgren, translator The Baghdad Clock... Read more about 'The Baghdad Clock': A Book Talk with the Author and Translator

Reflecting on the Many Faces of Mecca, the Lived City

June 28, 2019

“Mecca is lived, experienced, and documented differently by different people,” began Rosie Bsheer, Assistant Professor of History at Harvard and author of the forthcoming “Archive Wars: Spectacle, Speculation, and the Politics of History in Saudi Arabia,” in her keynote address to the colloquium Mecca: The Lived City, hosted by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies in May.

Mecca is characterized by plurality. In two days of lectures, speakers drew on academic, professional, and personal experiences to explore disparate visions of Mecca. The city’s social,...

Siren Çelik

Byzantine Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019-2020

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Academia

Mariam Sheibani

Research Fellow, Program in Islamic Law, Harvard Law School
Lecturer, Harvard Divinity School

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Personal website

Academia website

msheibani@law.harvard.edu

Muhammad Ahmed Habib

Preceptor in Arabic

38 Kirkland St, Room 108

muhammadhabib@fas.harvard.edu

Zeynep Tek

Fellow
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Turkish Language and Literature, Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University

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Academia

zeyneptek@fas.harvard.edu

Andrew Arceci

Fellow
Director, Collegium Musicum, Wellesley College
Director, Winchendon Music Festival

Multi-instrumentalist Andrew Arceci has performed throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. He has presented at several musicology conferences and given...