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Sultan Alamer

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Sultan Alamer is a nonresident scholar in the Carnegie Middle East Program. His research focuses on nationalism and state-formation, governance and technology, regional politics in the broader Middle East, with a special focus on the Arabian Peninsula...

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

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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...

A Song Too Serious To Sing: Islam and the Licit Musics of the Arabian Peninsula

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The Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program presents Bradford Garvey Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, Brandeis University Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3mahI41 Bradford Garvey received his Ph.D in Ethnomusicology from The Graduate Center, CUNY in...

Yesterday is not Gone: Memories of Slavery in Zanzibar & Oman in Memoirs, Fiction & Film

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The CMES Director's Series presents Emily Jane O'Dell Associate Professor, Sichuan University-Pittsburgh Institute, People's Republic of China Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3m0YXzm. Please note that this event will begin at 12pm Eastern Daylight...

Translating the World: Contemporary Poetry from Saudi Arabia

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The Arabian Peninsula Studies Lecture Series presents Moneera al-Ghadeer Senior Advisor, Ministry of Culture, Riyadh with a reading by poet Dr. Fowziyah A. Abukhalid Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3fe9Zjn. Please note: this event will begin at 12pm...

Yemen: A Long View on the Long War

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The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents Peter Salisbury Senior Analyst, International Crisis Group Register in advance: https://bit.ly/2OXQAJ3. Please note: this event will begin at 4:30pm Eastern Daylight Time. If you live outside the US, double...

Fieldwork from Afar

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In spring 2020, Keye Tersmette, PhD candidate in Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies, was less than 100 days into what was to be a year of dissertation fieldwork in Oman when Covid-19 hit. Here is his account of research disrupted. Mere minutes after...

Book talk: "Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia"

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The CMES Modern Middle East Speaker Series and the Department of History, Harvard University present Rosie Bsheer Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University Discussants: Beshara Doumani (Brown), Eve M. Troutt Powell (UPenn), Kirsten Weld (Harvard)...

Book talk: "The Crash of Flight 3804: A Lost Spy, A Daughter’s Quest, and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil"

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The CMES Director's Series presents Charlotte Dennett Former Middle East reporter, investigative journalist, and attorney; co-author of Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil Register: https://bit...

Q&A With Rosie Bsheer

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Rosie Bsheer is Assistant Professor of History in the Department of History and a member of the CMES Steering Committee. Her teaching and research interests center on Arab intellectual and social movements, petrocapitalism and state formation, and the...