The CMES Middle East Forum, Harvard University, and the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative, Religion and Public Life, Harvard Divinity School present a tour of the newly released book

Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire 

with contributors

Asmaa AbuMezied: author of "Lost Identity: The Tale of Peasantry and Nature," and,

Yousef Aljamal: author of "Travel Restrictions as a Manifestation of Nakba: Gaza, the Path Backward is the Path Forward"

Jehad Abusalim, co-editor and author of the introduction to Light in Gaza, will provide concluding remarks... Read more about Book talk: "Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire"

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present

Sigalit Gal
Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies; and Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3xD1pUI... Read more about From Dictatorship to COVID: Intergenerational Trauma Among Argentinian Israelis

The Harvard Divinity School's Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative and the CMES Middle East Forum are pleased to present

Salem Al-Qudwa, RCPI Fellow and Architect in conversation with Sara Roy, Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3Hfb30P... Read more about The Troubled Everyday in/of Gaza: Restoring Agency and Creative Possibility

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Liora Halperin
Associate Professor of International Studies and History and Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Endowed Chair in Israel Studies, University of Washington

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3r1rb14​​​​​​​... Read more about The Oldest Guard: Landowners, Local Memory, and the Making of the Zionist Settler Past

CMES presents the 2021 Hilda B. Silverman Memorial Lecturer

Daniel Boyarin
Hermann P. and Sophia Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture, Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley

Watch a video recording of this event here: https://bit.ly/3cfLAaH

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3GzL9WK... Read more about Whither? The Jews as a Diaspora Nation

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar is pleased to present

Leila Fawaz
Issam M. Fares Professor of Lebanese and Eastern Mediterranean Studies at the Fletcher School and Department of History at Tufts University

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3caLpy1.

Please note that this event will begin at 4:30pm Eastern Daylight Time. If you live outside the US, please double-check the time difference.

(Note: this event was originally scheduled for March 4)... Read more about France and Britain: Their Colonial Footprint in the Middle East

The CMES Book Series presents

San Charles Haddad
Author, consultant

Register here: https://bit.ly/3jDolKD​​​​​​​.... Read more about Book talk: "The File: Origins of the Munich Massacre"

The CMES Middle East Forum presents a book talk with

Dirk Moses, Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Global Human Rights History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill;
Bashir Bashir,  Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Political Science, and Communication, Open University of Israel and Senior Research Fellow, The Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem;
Leila Farsakh, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts at Boston; and
Derek Penslar, William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, Harvard University

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/2PYy3w8.... Read more about Book talk: "The Arab and Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond"

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Francesca Albanese
Human Rights Lawyer & affiliate scholar, Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University

Lex Takkenberg
Former Chief, Ethics Office, UNRWA, Amman, Jordan, and Legal Officer, Dutch Refugee Council

Discussant: Susan Akram, Clinical Professor and Supervising Attorney, Boston University International Human Rights Clinical Program, Boston University School of Law

Register: https://bit.ly/33xRobT.
... Read more about Palestinian Refugees in International Law: A Tale of Fragmentation and Opportunities

CMES is pleased to present the 2021 Hilda B. Silverman Memorial Lecturer

Daniel Boyarin
Hermann P. and Sophia Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture, Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley

This lecture will be held in the fall 2021 semester.

For more info: https://bit.ly/3kNSf0F​​​​​​​​​​​​​​... Read more about **POSTPONED** Whither? The Jews as a Diaspora Nation

The CMES Director's Series presents

Sa'ed Atshan
Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, Swarthmore College; Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology & Visiting Scholar in Middle Eastern Studies, Univ of California, Berkeley (2020-21), and, 

Katharina Galor
Hirschfeld Visiting Assistant Professor at the Program in Judaic Studies, Brown University

Register: https://bit.ly/2HEAjVa... Read more about Book talk: "The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians"