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Support for Earthquake Relief Efforts in Morocco

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On September 8, a massive earthquake struck the Marrakesh–Safi region of Morocco, the largest recorded in the country's history and the deadliest since 1960. CMES mourns the thousands of lives lost in this disaster. Local and international rescue and...

Leila Fawaz

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Leila Fawaz is Professor Emerita of Lebanese and Eastern Mediterranean Studies at the Fletcher School and of History in the School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University. She was the founding director of the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean...

Lorenzo Bondioli

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On leave for the 2025-26 academic year.

Lorenzo Bondioli's work investigates the political economy of medieval Islamic empires, aiming to lay bare the antagonistic symbiosis between the merchant and ruling classes, and the ever-embattled entanglement of...

Q&A With Becca Wadness

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Becca Wadness is a 2018 graduate of the CMES AM Program in Middle Eastern Studies. She currently works as Senior Tunisia Desk Officer in the Bureau for the Middle East at USAID. What is the mission of the USAID Bureau for the Middle East, in general and...

CMES Tunisia Program in Review

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CMES Tunisia Program in Review is a 48 page retrospective of the Tunisia Office and Program of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, published on the occasion of renewal of funding for the program by donor Hazem Ben-Gacem '92...