CMES is pleased to present the 2015 H.A.R. Gibb Arabic & Islamic Studies Lecture Series with

Robert Wisnovsky
James McGill Professor, Islamic philosophy and theology, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University... Read more about H.A.R. Gibb Lecture: Avicenna and Avicennism

The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and Harvard Hillel present a Weinstein Forum conversation featuring

Gary Samore, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (formerly of United Nations Against Nuclear Iran)
Jeremy Burton, Greater Boston Jewish Community Relations Council
Brooke Kantor ’14, Institute for the Study of War
Jim Sebenius, the Program on Negotiation, Harvard Business School... Read more about Iran, Israel, the Middle East, and the U.S. Where Do We Go From Here?

Please join us at the Harvard Bookstore for a conversation with author Nina Ansary and Harvard Professor of Biology Pardis Sabeti.

What if you looked beyond the images of Iran that flicker past on the nightly news to glimpse inside the...

Join the artist for a talk, gallery walk, and reception on June 19th, from 4-6 pm. The event will begin at CMES 38 Kirkland Street, room 102, and then proceed to the gallery at CGIS Knafel in the Fisher Family Commons, 1737 Cambridge Street. The exhibit runs from June 19-August 19, 2015.

Join the artist for a talk, gallery walk, and reception on June 19th, from 4-6 pm. The event will begin at CMES 38 Kirkland Street, room 102, and then proceed to the gallery at CGIS Knafel in the Fisher Family Commons, 1737 Cambridge Street. The exhibit runs from June 19-August 19, 2015. 

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present a conference organized by

Roy P. Mottahedeh, Gurney Professor of History, Harvard University... Read more about Iranian Cities from the Arab Conquest to the Early Modern Period

Join the Davis Center and friends to mark the Persian New Year and beginning of spring at Harvard’s annual Nowruz celebration! Featuring traditional food, drink, music and a presentation of Nowruz customs.... Read more about Celebrate Nowruz

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present

تئاتر ایرانی امروز: از موزیکال های تهران تا سایه‌بازی در استنفورد
(Iranian Theatre Today: From Musicals in Tehran to Shadow Puppetry in Stanford)... Read more about تئاتر ایرانی امروز: از موزیکال های تهران تا سایه‌بازی در استنفورد (Talk in Persian)

Harvard Social Anthropology Program Seminar Series and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies present

Niloofar Haeri
Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University... Read more about Debating Materiality of Words and Things in Iran: Namaz, Du’a and the Sincere Subject

The Center of Middle Eastern Studies, the Harvard College Iranian Association, and Harvard Law School Middle East Law Students Association are pleased announce

The First Annual Iranian Gala

Keynote speaker: Abbas Milani, Director, Hamid and Christine Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies, Stanford University... Read more about The First Annual Iranian Gala: Preserving the Past, Building for the Future

The First Annual Iranian Gala, organized by The Center of Middle Eastern Studies, the Harvard College Iranian Association, and Harvard Law School Middle East Law Students Association, presents a public talk by

Abbas Milani
Hamid & Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University and Co-Director of the Iran Democracy Project at Hoover Institution... Read more about “Culture wars” and democracy in Iran: A new politics?