The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Basileus Zeno
Sessional Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, York University

Discussant: Rami Khouri, Director of Global Engagement and Senior Public Policy Fellow, American University of Beirut; and Nonresident Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School 

Please note: this talk will take place in CGIS Knafel 262; the speaker will appear on Zoom and the discussant will be in-person.... Read more about The Responsibility to Protect and What it Means: The Case of Libya and Syria (on Zoom only)

Advocates, MELSA, CMES and the WLA International Committee present

Omar Alshogre
Human Rights advocate

Moderated by Professor Ioannis Kalpouzos

RSVP in advance: https://bit.ly/3DFvaFv
... Read more about Secret Prisons in Syria: A Conversation with Omar Alshogre

The Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and CMES present

Suleiman Ali Mourad
Professor of Religion, Smith College

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3LLr7ee​​​​​​​... Read more about Ibn ʿAsākir of Damascus (1105-1176) and His Many Legacies: Sunnī Revivalist, Jihād Advocate, & Syrian 'Nationalist'

The CMES & WCFIA Middle East Seminar presents

Michelle Bradford
International Development Professional & Former Team Leader for multi-donor funded stabilization programming in Syria, US Department of State and UK Department for International Development

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3imzbVl​​​​​​​... Read more about From Policy to Practice: A Critical Review of United States Government Stabilization Efforts in Syria

The CMES Armenian Studies Lecture Series presents

Rebecca L. Thomas, MSW, PhD
Professor and Director, Center for International Social Work Studies, University of Connecticut School of Social Work

Anoush Baghdassarian, Harvard Law School 3L; co-founder of ReRooted, a Syrian-Armenian Archive

Ani Schug, co-founder of ReRooted, a Syrian-Armenian Archive

Watch a recording of this event: https://bit.ly/3mfE2Kl

Syria provided a refuge for Ottoman Armenians fleeing the violence in their ancestral villages during the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923. The Syrian Armenian community grew and... Read more about Twice Displaced: Syrian Armenian Stories of Resettlement and Revival in Armenia and Abroad

The CMES Armenian Studies Lecture Series presents

Anoush Baghdassarian, Harvard Law School 3L, co-founder of ReRooted  

Ani Schug, co-founder of ReRooted

Moderator: Lisa Gulesserian, Preceptor on Armenian Language and Culture, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

This event has been postponed and will be reschedule for December 2021. Stay tuned.... Read more about POSTPONED: The ReRooted Archive: 100 Years of Syrian Armenian History

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Carmen Geha
Visiting Fellow, Weatherhead Center For International Affairs, Harvard University; Associate Professor of Public Administration, Department of Political Studies and Public Administration; Founding Member, Center for Inclusive Business and Leadership (CIBL) for Women, American University of Beirut

Discussant: Rami G. Khouri, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School; Director of Global Engagement and Adjunct Visiting Professor of Journalism, American University of Beirut

Register in advance: https://bit.ly/2YcKTLU​​​​​​​... Read more about Implosion and Collapse: Lebanese Women in Revolution, Civil Resistance, and Reconstruction