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Translating from the Arabic: Iman Humaydan (author) & Michelle Hartman (translator) in conversation with Luke Leafgren

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The Mahindra Rethinking Translation Seminar presents a conversation with Iman Humaydan, author, and Michele Hartman, translator, of Songs for Darkness, an epic novel that intertwines a narration focused on four generations of Lebanese women’s lives with...

The Alevi Archive Project: Recovering Marginalized Histories and Preserving Cultural Heritage through Digital Humanities

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The Department of History and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies present Ayfer Karakaya-Stump Ayfer Karakaya-Stump is Associate Professor of History at William & Mary. She received her Ph.D. in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University...

Reading an Alevi Ritual Manual In Early Republican Turkey: ‘Ayn-i Erkân Risâlesi

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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents Yasemin Karakuş Assistant Professor in the Department of Turkish Language and Literature at Istanbul University, specializing in Ottoman Literature; Visiting Scholar, CMES. Karakuş' research focuses on...

Picking up the Pieces in Post-Conflict Syria: A Discussion of Social and Urban Challenges with Lina Chawaf and Anas Soufan

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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents Lina Chawaf Fellow, CMES; Fellow at Grubstreet, Memoire Generator; Visitor Fellow, Tufts University, and Anas Soufan Associate, CMES; Visiting Professor of Architecture and Historic Conservation, Wentworth...

Special event: Syria in Transition

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This event is open to the public and will be recorded. Please register to attend. Since December 2024, when the Assad regime was ousted from power, Syria has been in the midst of monumental change. Both domestic and international forces are destabilizing...

Anwar Mhajne

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Anwar Mhajne, a native of Umm al-Fahem, is an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Stonehill College. Her research focuses on feminist security studies, critical cybersecurity, disinformation, and Middle Eastern politics...

Repression of Migrants and Infectious Disease Outbreaks: Learning from 21st-Century and 18th-Century Syria

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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents Aaron David Shakow, PhD Lecturer, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School This talk will discuss tuberculosis among Syrian migrants in Lebanon and how the response to it...

Debating Veganism in the Medieval Islamic World: al-Maʿarrī and al-Muʾayyad al-Shīrāzī

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The Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program presents Kevin Blankinship Associate Professor of Arabic at Brigham Young University Register here . Abstract: The staunch vegan, satirist, moralist, and witty man of letters Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī (d...

Understanding Syria's Transition in the Aftermath of the Assad Regime Collapse

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The CMES Reframing Conflict: Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan and Syria in Context series presents Omar S. Dahi Professor of Economics at Hampshire College and Founding Director of Security in Context, a research network on peace, conflict, and global affairs...

Uprisings in Competitive Regimes: Protest and Political Change in Iraq, Lebanon, Algeria, and Sudan

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The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents Chantal Berman Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Georgetown University; Academy Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Harvard University, and Killian Clarke Assistant...