Levant

2016 Apr 06

Turkish Foreign Policy Between the Syrian Civil War and Russia

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location:

CGIS Knafel 262, 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA

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

2016 Mar 31

Book talk: "Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War"

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location:

Kalb Seminar Rm, Taubman Bldg, Kennedy School of Government

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"

2016 Mar 31

Fail Better: The United Nations and Syria

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location:

Allison Dining Room, Taubman Building, 5th floor, HKS campus, 15 Eliot St

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

2016 Mar 25

Scales of Syria (symposium)

3:30pm

Location:

Gund Hall, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA

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)

2016 Mar 10

The Syrian Refugee Crisis: Rebuilding Lives through Sustainable Grassroots Initiatives

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location:

CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA

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

2016 Feb 17

The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location:

CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Will McCants
Senior fellow, Center for Middle East Policy, and director, Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World, The Brookings Institution... Read more about The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State

2016 Feb 16

What is Islamic in the Islamic State?

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location:

CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies present

Jocelyne Cesari
Chair of Religion and Politics, University of Birmingham, UK; Senior research fellow, Georgetown University’s Berkley Center on Religion, Peace and World Affairs; Visiting Professor of Religion and Politics and Associate, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, director, interfaculty program Islam in the West, Harvard University... Read more about What is Islamic in the Islamic State?

2015 Dec 10

Terror in the Name of God

4:30pm to 6:30pm

Location:

CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Jessica Stern
Fellow, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Research Professor, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University; co-author of ISIS: The State of Terror... Read more about Terror in the Name of God

2015 Nov 10

The Ongoing Crisis in Syria: Destruction of the Syrian State and the Changing Face of Conflict

12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location:

Allison Dining Room, Taubman Bldg, 5th floor, HKS 15 Eliot St, Cambridge, MA

The Middle East Seminar presents

Michael Wahid Hanna, J.D.
Senior Fellow, Century Foundation; Adjunct Senior Fellow, Center on Law and Security, NYU School of Law... Read more about The Ongoing Crisis in Syria: Destruction of the Syrian State and the Changing Face of Conflict

2015 Nov 05

H.A.R. Gibb Lecture: Muhammad ʿAbduh's Metaphysics in Context (LOCATION CHANGE)

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location:

CGIS South, Belfer Case Study Rm (S030), 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA

CMES is pleased to present the 2015 H.A.R. Gibb Arabic & Islamic Studies Lecture Series with

Robert Wisnovsky
James McGill Professor, Islamic philosophy and theology, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University... Read more about H.A.R. Gibb Lecture: Muhammad ʿAbduh's Metaphysics in Context (LOCATION CHANGE)

2015 Oct 15

The Conditions Inside Syria: A View from the Field

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location:

CGIS Knafel 262, 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA

The Middle East Seminar and The Middle East Forum presents

Ammar Kourany, Safety and Liaison Manager, Save the Children, Syria; and,
Abdulkarim Ekzayez, Health Program Manager, Save the Children, Syria... Read more about The Conditions Inside Syria: A View from the Field

2015 Sep 08

Health System Resilience amidst Political Instability: the Case of Lebanon

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location:

Malkin Penthouse, Littauer 4th floor, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

The Harvard Kennedy School Middle East Initiative presents a seminar with

Walid Ammar, MD, PhD
Director General, Ministry of Public Health of Lebanon; Professor, the Lebanese University; Senior Lecturer, American University of Beirut

Moderated by Melani Cammett, Professor of Government, Harvard University.

The Lebanese experience, notably with the recent challenging Syrian crisis, defies certain well-established concepts in the discipline of public health. The speaker contests the globalization of the corresponding...