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"No Place to Raise a Daughter": My Life and Work in the Middle East--A Woman's Perspective

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CMES is pleased to present the 2017 Hilda B. Silverman Memorial Lecturer Martha Myers Former Country Director, Save the Children, Syria Watch Martha Myers' lecture Read Martha Myers' lecture Martha Myers has lived and worked in the Middle East for the...

Designing for Darkness: What Can Latin American Cities Learn From the Arabian Peninsula?

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Andreina Seijas, an incoming doctoral student at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, attended the April 7-8 symposium After Dark: Nocturnal Landscapes and Public Spaces in the Arabian Peninsula, jointly sponsored by the Aka Khan Program at...

Joseph Ataman Wins Overseas Press Club Foundation Award

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Joseph Ataman, AM candidate at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, was awarded an Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholar Award at the Foundation’s 2017 Annual Scholar Awards Luncheon, held February 24 at the Yale Club in New York...

The Syrian Refugee Crisis: Weathering the Storm in Turkey and Beyond

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The Seminar on Turkey in Modern World presents Ahmad Mamdoh Tarakji, MD President, Syrian American Medical Society Contact: Liz Flanagan Sponsors: Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Center for Middle Eastern Studies Save Save Save Save Save...

Migration and Health Care Panel Discussion

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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a panel on migration and health care featuring Elizabeth H. Shlala, Saime Ozcurumez, and Lloy Wylie Obstacles to Securing the Right to Health Care for Sri Lankan Domestic Workers in the GCC Elizabeth H...

Defender of Urban Gardens

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Aleksandar Sopov, PhD candidate in the joint program of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the History Department, helped save Istanbul green spaces, but has broader hopes. "I had to save them," he says. “When those public places are erased, it...

Fail Better: The United Nations and Syria

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The CMES Middle East Forum and the HKS Middle East Initiative present Mouin Rabbani Senior fellow, Institute for Palestinian Studies; independent analyst specializing in Palestinian affairs & the Arab-Israeli conflict Contact: Liz Flanagan

Scales of Syria (symposium)

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MEdiNA, the Harvard GSD's MENA student group, presents Scales of Syria, a symposium on the Syrian crisis at the Harvard Graduate School of Design As the Syrian civil war continues to unfold without resolution, the refugee crisis it has fueled has had a...

Environmental Challenges and Socio-Economic Conditions in Gaza: A Livable Place?

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The CMES Middle East Forum presents Wesam Al Madhoun Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering, Islamic University of Gaza; Visiting Scholar, MIT; MIT-Malaysia Sustainable Cities Program Contact: Liz Flanagan

The Syrian Refugee Crisis: Rebuilding Lives through Sustainable Grassroots Initiatives

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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents Karyn Thomas Founder and Co-Director of Small Projects Istanbul https://www.smallprojectsistanbul.org/ Today there are over 2 million Syrian refugees in Turkey; more than half of them are children and 500,000...