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Book talk: "The Tale of a Wall: Reflections on the Meaning of Hope and Freedom"

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The Harvard Divinity School's Religion and Public Life, Religion, Conflict and Peace Initiative is pleased to present a book talk featuring Luke Leafgren, Translator; Lecturer in Arabic, NELC, Harvard University, and Claire Messud, Joseph Y. Bae and...

Writing to Survive

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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents Burhan Sönmez Novelist and President of PEN International Art is generally seen as making sense and expressing the longing for the past. The past, which is the object of “nostalgia”, is here lost both in...

Bilge Karasu’s Queer Modernism and "Doymamışlık" as a Queer Affect

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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents Selen Erdoğan, Associate of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies In this talk, Selen Erdoğan will discuss Bilge Karasu’s literary contributions to queer thought. Karasu is one of the most prominent writers...

The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures

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The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies' Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series present The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures A book talk by C. Ceyhun Arslan, Koç...

Caravaggio: The Painter's Rebellion

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The Boston Turkish Arts & Culture Festival presents Caravaggio: The Painter's Rebellion in discussion with the author Gündüz Vassaf and Meryem Demir, preceptor in modern Turkish, CMES, Harvard University The Painter's Rebellion is significant as the first...

Amid Violence in the Middle East, Palestinian American Poet Shares Work at Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies

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Lisa Suhair Majaj — an author and scholar of Arab American Literature — shared a collection of her poems at a Tuesday event at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Majaj, who was born in America and grew up in Jordan, shared 17 of her poems chronicling...

Politics of Fiction and Translation: "The Last Pomegranate Tree" - A conversation with Kurdish novelist Bachtyar Ali, his translator Kareem Abdulrahman

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The Mahindra Re-thinking Translation seminar presents Politics of Fiction and Translation: The Last Pomegranate Tree - A conversation with Kurdish novelist Bachtyar Ali, his translator Kareem Abdulrahman After being held in a desert prison for 21 years...

Writing as a Diasporan Palestinian: Poems and Reflections

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The CMES Middle East Forum and the HDS Religion, Conflict and Peace Initiative are pleased to present Dr. Lisa Suhair Majaj Award-winning Poet and Author Note: This talk will also take place on Zoom; please register in advance on Zoom here: https://bit.ly...

Nafplio Conference Caps Multi-year Byzantine Studies Initiative

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by Jesse Howell, PhD ’17, CMES Academic Programs Manager and Associate Director of the AM Program Certain dates stand out in the collective historical consciousness. On May 29, 1453, Ottoman forces under the command of the twenty-one-year-old Ottoman...

Arabic-Islamic Poetry in West Africa (in English and Arabic)

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CMES and NELC are pleased to present Arabic-Islamic Poetry in West Africa: A Student Panel Presentations in English with Textual Analysis in Arabic Politics, Piety, and Poetry: The Literary Legacy of Nana Asma’u Hafsa Abdihakim Hassan, A.B. Candidae...