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'The Baghdad Clock': A Book Talk with the Author and Translator

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The Ce nter for Middle Eastern Studies presents Sha had Al Rawi, author of The Baghdad Clock, short-listed for the 2018 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF), and Luke Leafgren, translator The Baghdad Clock About The Baghdad Clock: It's 1991 and...

Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture with Nadia Murad

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The 2019 Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture, "Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nadia Murad in Conversation with Jennifer Leaning," took place on April 3 at the Memorial Church at Harvard. Nadia Murad is the corecipient of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, and is...

Nadia Murad: The Making of an Activist

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Nadia Murad came to Harvard as a survivor of genocide under ISIS, an advocate for victims of sexual violence, and the first Iraqi citizen to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Her talk at the Memorial Church, as part of the Weatherhead Center’s Samuel L. and...

Q&A with Nicholas Norberg

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Nicholas Norberg is a first-year student in the AM in Middle Eastern Studies program. How did you become interested in Middle Eastern studies? I became interested in Middle Eastern studies through my love of language acquisition. I studied linguistics as...

The changing dynamics of Kurdish politics in the post-ISIS era

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The Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies present Bayar Mustafa Assistant Professor of Politics at the College of International Studies at the American University of Kurdistan, Duhok Abstract: In...

Growing Up in Contemporary Iraq

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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents Growing Up in Contemporary Iraq This one-day symposium will focus on Iraq's youth: what it is like to be one of the 20 million young Iraqis under 30 living in Iraq today. Growing Up in Contemporary Iraq will...