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CMES Disaster Studies Initiative Spring 2026 Colloquium

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The CMES Disaster Studies Initiative presents Spring 2026 Colloquium The Disaster Studies Initiative was founded by Cemal Kafadar in response to a series of highly destructive earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria in February, 2023. The initiative...

Lina Chawaf

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With a career spanning over three decades to give voice to voiceless especially women, I’ve had the privilege of working across TV, radio, and print media since 1992. I’ve created hundreds of TV commercials and numerous clips for UNICEF, and I’ve been...

Healing Across Divides: Trust-Building Through Joint Israeli-Palestinian Healthcare Initiatives

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Join the Center for Middle Eastern Studies for a conversation with Middle East Initiative Fellows Avner Halperin, Dr. Yasmeen Abu Fraiha, and Noam Alon, as they explore innovative approaches to peacebuilding through healthcare. Drawing on insights from...

Repression of Migrants and Infectious Disease Outbreaks: Learning from 21st-Century and 18th-Century Syria

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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents Aaron David Shakow, PhD Lecturer, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School This talk will discuss tuberculosis among Syrian migrants in Lebanon and how the response to it...

Back to Nature: Multifunctional Rooftops for Biodiversity in Metropolitan Cities

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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents Hasibe Akın, PhD(c) ASLA, Fulbright Visiting Researcher Urban rooftops—spaces that belong to everyone and no one—hold untapped potential to become critical components in addressing urban challenges such as...

Post-Disaster Ecological Restoration Strategies for Samandağ Coastline in Hatay, Türkiye

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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents Banu Tomruk Assistant Professor of Architecture, Istanbul Bilgi University; Visiting Scholar at CMES, Harvard University Banu Tomruk is an architect specializing in ecological urbanism and circular...

Attacks on Children in Gaza: Injuries, Trauma, and Survival

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The FXB Center for HUman Rights at Harvard University and the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights present Budour Hassan Middle East and North Africa Researcher, Amnesty International Mohammad Mansour Co-Founder & Mental Health Counselor...

Science from the Lab Bench and Beyond; Identifying Genotoxic Compounds Persistent in the Soil of Halabja from 1988 Genocide Campaign

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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents Dr. Aram Ghalali Instructor in Surgery, Harvard Medical School The town of Halabja is located in Iraqi Kurdistan, and on March 16th 1988, it was subjected to large-scale attacks with chemical weapons...

Webinar: "Targeting Health: Detention, Torture, and Attacks on Palestinian Healthcare Workers"

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Join the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights at HSPH as they welcome Milena Ansari. LLM, Israeal and Palsteine Assistant Researchers, Human Rights Watch Osaid Alser, MS, MSc (Oxon). General Surgery Trainee, Texas Tech University Health Sciences...

One Year Later: Assessing the Scale of Mortality in Gaza

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Join the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights for a discussion about the scale of mortality in Gaza over the past year through direct and indirect deaths with Les Roberts, (Epidemiologist, Professor Emeritus, Columbia University Mailman School of...