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

Plese join us as we welcome political cartoonist and artist Khalid Albaih to CMES. The talk will begin with his presentation in room 102 at CMES, and then transition to the CGIS Knafel Concourse to view his works in the gallery space there. 

His #Khartoon! - @khalidalbaih at Harvard exhibit will be on display in CGIS Knafel Concourse November 11-December 19.

@khalidalbaih is a Sudanese artist and political cartoonist born in Bucharest, Romania in 1980. He currently lives and works in Doha, Qatar, where he has been based since 1990. He publishes his cartoons on social media under “Khartoon!,” a word play on cartoon and Khartoum, the capital of Sudan.... Read more about #Khartoon! - @khalidalbaih at Harvard

The CMES Director's Series presents

Margaux Fitoussi
MTS candidate, Harvard Divinity School

Margaux Fitoussi is a Masters student at Harvard Divinity School. This summer she curated a multi-media exhibition in Tunis about El Hara, the...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents an exhibition of photographs of

Tunis: The Hara
19th & 20th centuries

Organized by Margaux Fitoussi, MTS candidate, Harvard Divinity School

Since the 13th century, there...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

The Honourable Mona Makram-Ebeid
Former Egyptian MP and Senator; Distinguished Lecturer, Political Science, American University of Cairo... Read more about The WAFD years 1919-1952: a time of ideas

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

The Honourable Mona Makram-Ebeid
Former Egyptian MP and Senator; Distinguished Lecturer, Political Science, American University of Cairo... Read more about EGYPT: a look to the future prospects and challenges

The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology presents a film screening
and discussion with the director of

I Am the People (Je suis le peuple) (2014)... Read more about Film screening: I Am the People (Je suis le peuple)

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...

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 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