The Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Aga Khan Fund, & the Association for Central Asian Civilizations & Silk Road Studies

Dr. Michael Barry
Princeton University

When Alexander reached India in 326 BC, connecting Greek and Indian civilizations, austere Brahmins predicted his inevitable death despite all the king’s victories and attempts to be regarded as divine; by the time Alexander returned to Babylon where he died in 323 BC,...

The CMES Middle East Forum and the Middle East Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School present

A book talk with authors
Nader Hashemi, Director, Center for Middle East Studies and Associate Professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics, Josef Korbel School of Int'l Studies, University of Denver,
Danny Postel, Assistant Director, Middle East and North African Studies Program, Northwestern University
Paul Gabriel Hilu Pinto, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil... Read more about Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East

Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Department of History present a workshop organized by Roger Owen

This workshop aims to historicize violent conflicts in the states of the Post-Mandate territories and to understand the Arabic terminology of violence in a trans-temporal and trans-national framework.... Read more about Fitna: Civil War or Sectarian Conflict? Understanding Political Violence Within the Post-Mandate Arab States

The CMES Director's Series presents

Richard Nielsen
Assistant Professor of Political Science, MIT

Richard Nielsen is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at MIT. He completed his PhD (Government) and AM (Statistics) at Harvard University, and holds a BA...

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Joseph Sassoon
Associate Professor and Al-Sabah Chair in Politics and Political Economy, Georgetown University... Read more about Violence in the Arab Authoritarian Republics

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a panel on migration and health care featuring Elizabeth H. Shlala, Saime Ozcurumez, and Lloy Wylie... Read more about Migration and Health Care Panel Discussion

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents

James Dorsey
Senior Fellow, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore Nanyang Technological University, co-director of the Institute of Culture, University of Wuerzburg... Read more about The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer

The Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World presents

Soner Cagaptay
Bayer Family Fellow and Director, Turkish Research Institute, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy... Read more about Turkish Foreign Policy Between the Syrian Civil War and Russia

The CMES Middle East Forum and the HKS Middle East Initiative present

Mouin Rabbani
Senior fellow, Institute for Palestinian Studies; independent analyst specializing in Palestinian affairs & the Arab-Israeli conflict
... Read more about Fail Better: The United Nations and Syria

The CMES Middle East Forum presents

Co-authors Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami... Read more about Book talk: "Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War"

MEdiNA, the Harvard GSD's MENA student group, presents

Scales of Syria, a symposium on the Syrian crisis at the Harvard Graduate School of Design... Read more about Scales of Syria (symposium)

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Karyn Thomas
Founder and Co-Director of Small Projects Istanbul... Read more about The Syrian Refugee Crisis: Rebuilding Lives through Sustainable Grassroots Initiatives