Religion

The April 17th, 2008 edition of the Harvard Gazette featured an item on CMES's recently awarded grant: Social Science Resource Council Gives Grant to Harvard Centers Social Science Research Council gives grant to Harvard centers The Social Science...

CMES, in partnership with the Davis Center and Asia Center, was recently awarded a Social Science Research Council (SSRC) grant to work on expanding media understanding of "Islam in Context." The project focuses on encouraging academics and journalists to...

Jocelyne Cesari is interviewed in an article about the recently published Encyclopedia on Islam in the United States. From boston.com: Writing the Book on Islam in America By Rich Barlow | November 3, 2007 During the Middle Ages, Muslim scholars played a...

Outreach Director Paul Beran was featured in a Globe article about the Groton Public Library's Islam symposium. Read the full article here: In search of "truth over fear" on boston.com By Matt Gunderson, Globe Correspondent | October 21, 2007 Anti-Islamic...

Muslims after 9/11: Political Participation and Civic Engagement was awarded a generous grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to examine the political and civic integration of Muslims in the United States and Europe in the post-9/11...

Richard Foltz's (CMES, 1996) book, Religions of the Silk Road, has recently been published in Turkish (Ipek Yolu Dinleri, Istanbul: Medrese Yayinlari, 2006) and in Persian (Dinha-ye Jadeh-ye Abrisham, Tehran: Entesharat-e Fararavan, 2007). His book...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to announce that it will co-sponsor an upcoming conference entitled, Muslims in Europe and in the United States: A Transatlantic Comparison, organized by Dr Jocelyne Cesari, Research Associate at CMES. The...