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2024 Mar 06

Palestinian Women in Gaza: War, Health, and Feminist Solidarity

11:00am to 12:30pm

Location: 

Online webinar; see registration details below

In commemoration of International Women’s Day, the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights invites you to join a webinar dedicated to the Palestinian women in Gaza. The webinar will bring together three feminist scholar-activists in conversation about Gaza, Palestinian women’s health, and resistance to genocide.

Moderator: Sawsan Abdulrahim, PhD, MPH, Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut; FXB Palestine Program Health & Human Rights Fellow

Speakers:
Zahra Ali, PhD, Asst Professor, Rutgers University;
Lila Sharif, PhD, Asst Professor, Arizona State University;
Sara Ihmoud, PhD, Asst Professor, College of the Holy Cross

Register here in advance: hsph.me/PPHHR-Mar2024... Read more about Palestinian Women in Gaza: War, Health, and Feminist Solidarity

2024 Feb 07

The South Africa ICJ Genocide Case Against Israel: Implications for Palestinian Health

11:00am to 12:30pm

Location: 

Online webinar; see below for registration link

The Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights, FXB Center for Health & Human Rights at Harvard University presents a webinar panel discussion featuring:

Moderator: A. Kayum Ahmed, PhD, MSt, LLM, LLB, Assistant Professor, Columbia University; FXB Visiting Scientist,

Timothy Fish-Hodgson, LLM, MSc, Legal Advisor, International Commission of Justice,

Katherine Iliopoulos, LLM, Legal Adviser for Libya & Palestine, International Commission of Jurists,

Tlaleng Mofokeng, MBChB, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to health, and

Rania Muhared, Irish Research Council and Hardiman PhD Scholar

Register in advance on Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tssnKpk9QiusNxCc_ORWGg#/registration... Read more about The South Africa ICJ Genocide Case Against Israel: Implications for Palestinian Health

2023 Dec 11

A Conversation with Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sitta

11:00am to 12:30pm

Location: 

Online webinar; registration information below

Join the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights, a partnership program between the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights and the Institute of Community and Public Health at Birzeit University, in conversation with

Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah

Register in advance here: https://harvard.zoom....

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2023 Sep 20

Climate Inheritance

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location: 

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

The CMES Environmental Studies of the Middle East Speaker Series is pleased to present

Rania Ghosn
Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, MIT; Partner, DESIGN EARTH... Read more about Climate Inheritance

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CMES Postdoctoral Fellowships in Disaster Studies

April 28, 2023

Now Accepting Applications – DEADLINE May 31, 2023


The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University invites applications for two Postdoctoral Fellowships in Disaster Studies. The fellowships extend for 12 months, from September 1, 2023, to August 31, 2024. These fellowships and the activities organized by and with the fellows are intended to launch a long-term project, triggered by present concerns arising from the recent devastation in Turkey and Syria as well as the urgent need to develop our understanding of the history of seismicity in the region.

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On the Ground Following the Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria: Q&A with Deren Ertas

March 28, 2023

Deren Ertas is a PhD candidate in history and middle eastern studies at Harvard. She was in Istanbul doing research when, beginning on February 6, 2023, a series of powerful earthquakes struck areas of southern and central Turkey and northern and western Syria. Following is a conversation with Ertas about her experiences in the aftermath of  these devastating events.... Read more about On the Ground Following the Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria: Q&A with Deren Ertas

Sultan Alamer

The Arab and Muslim Evolution of "Deviance" in Homosexuality

June 24, 2022

In the Middle East, today’s understanding of gay relationships as abnormal or unnatural relies on concepts invented less than a century ago. In an essay in New Lines magazine, CMES Visiting Fellow Sultan Alamer, a political science doctoral student at George Washington University explores this complicated history. Read the full story on the New Lines website.

2022 Oct 06

Viruses Remaking Borders? Unwanted Organisms in Palestine/Israel from Covid-19 to Climate Change

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

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

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present

Natalia Gutkowski
Postdoctoral scholar, The Society of Fellows, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Moderator: Steven Caton, Khalid Bin Abdullah Bin Abdulrahman Al Saud Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University... Read more about Viruses Remaking Borders? Unwanted Organisms in Palestine/Israel from Covid-19 to Climate Change

2022 Oct 03

The Embodiment of Protest: Hunger Strikes, Human Rights, and the Health of Palestinian Political Prisoners

2:00pm to 3:00pm

Location: 

Online webinar; registration information below

The FXB Center for Health & Human Rights, the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative, Religion and Public Life at Harvard Divinity School and the Middle East Forum, Center for Middle Eastern Studies are pleased to present

Dr. Lina Qasem Hassan
Physician and Chairperson, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel

Sahar Francis
Director General, Addameer Prisoner’s Support and Human Rights Association

Moderator: Randa Wahbe, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University

Register in advance here: https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a96lk7XymvIbhZA... Read more about The Embodiment of Protest: Hunger Strikes, Human Rights, and the Health of Palestinian Political Prisoners

2022 May 12

From Dictatorship to COVID: Intergenerational Trauma Among Argentinian Israelis

12:30pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

Online (registration information below)

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present

Sigalit Gal
Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies; and Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3xD1pUI... Read more about From Dictatorship to COVID: Intergenerational Trauma Among Argentinian Israelis

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