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Part-time Position Available: Flask Developer for Digital Humanities Project

October 24, 2022

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University is seeking a highly motivated student to join a grant-funded digital archive project about the history of the Arabian Peninsula. A successful applicant for this position will be a skilled Flask Developer who is competent at writing Python code and has the knowledge to design and implement code using the Flask framework. The ideal candidate should be able to write modular, performant, and clean code; write unit testing with Python libraries to verify that the functionality of the application is correct; and acquire effective...

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Part-time Position Available: Technical Writer for Digital Humanities Project

October 24, 2022

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University is seeking a highly motivated student to join a grant-funded digital archive project about the history of the Arabian Peninsula. A successful applicant for this position will be a professional technical writer to be responsible for creating documentation that clarifies the product’s design, features, and benefits. The ideal candidate should be able to work on requirements like content strategy or scoping out new products to ensure all necessary information has been included for stakeholder to understand the project...

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Part-time Position Available: Arabic Language Specialist for Digital Humanities Project

October 24, 2022

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is seeking highly motivated students to join a grant-funded digital archive project on the history of the Middle East. A successful applicant for this position will be fluent in Arabic and have a demonstrated ability to read and understand eighteenth- to nineteenth-century Arabic chronicles. The student will primarily work on enhancing the performance of the project’s Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tool through verifying the accuracy of its rendered text contents against an original source material. The student will perform all administrative...

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CMES Alum Badriyyah Alsabah Talks with NPR about Kuwaiti Trans Woman Imprisoned for "Impersonating the Opposite Sex"

October 29, 2021

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with activist and recent CMES AM graduate Badriyyah Alsabah, a research and policy fellow with the Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth, about Maha Al-Mutairi, a trans woman in Kuwait who was sentenced to two years in prison for "impersonating the opposite sex." Listen to the story or read the...

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