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Fifteen Questions: Jessica Marglin on Jewish Studies, the Dudley Co-Op, and Campus Protest Culture

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The Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations professor sat down with Fifteen Minutes to discuss what’s changed — and what hasn’t — on her return to the College 20 years after graduating. Read the Q&A in the Harvard Crimson's Fifteen Minutes.

Randi Hendricks

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Randi Hendricks is an AM candidate in Regional Studies–Middle East at Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Her research focuses on identity, language, and political change in North Africa, with particular interests in contemporary North...

Anwar Mhajne

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Anwar Mhajne is an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Stonehill College, a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her research...

"Hot Maroc": From Arabic to English: Yassin Adnan (author) and Alexander Elinson (translator) in discussion

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The Mahindra Humanities Center and the Department of Comparative Literature present Yassin Adnan (author) and Alex Elinson (translator, CUNY) discuss Hot Maroc, Adnan’s novelistic portrait of the challenges Moroccans, young and old face today. Moderator...

Ambassadors of a Lost Homeland: The Diplomacy of Survival in the Andalusian–Morisco Experience (13th–17th Centuries)

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The Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program presents Houssem Eddine Chachia Shawwaf Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University RSVP here Co-sponsor: Center for Middle Eastern Studies Contact: Liz...

Targeting Infrastructure and Environment in Conflict

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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents Jeannie Sowers Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, University of New Hampshire Abstract: This talk explores the targeting of civilian infrastructures in protracted conflicts, using cases...

“Gens suspects”: On Surveillance and Detention in Colonial Tunisia (1911-1928)

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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present Arwa Labidi Assistant Professor, University of Jendouba, Tunisia; Hazem Ben-Gacem Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for MIddle Eastern Studies, Harvard University Arwa Labidi is a Tunisian historian...

"The khalla is running away from us”: Gulf Capital, Deficient Deserts and Property-Making in Central Sudan

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The CMES Reframing Conflict: Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan and Syria in Context series presents Nisrin Elamin Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Toronto Discussant: Zachary Mondesire, Assistant Professor...

African Landscape Architectures: Alternative Futures for the Field

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The GSD Department of Landscape Architecture and the Department of African and African American Studies present a conference "The African Landscape Architectures" conference brings together a wide range of landscape practices from across the continent...

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...