Turkey

2020 Oct 05

If Women Build a Government: An Anti-Feminist Dream Narrative in Early Republican Turkey

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location:

Online meeting (registration link below)

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Zeynep Tek
Research Assistant, Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Turkey

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2020 Oct 02

The Ascendant Field: Critical Engagements with Ottoman Arabic Literature

(All day)

Location:

Online webinar (RSVP link below)

The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC), the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) present the workshop

The Ascendant Field
Critical Engagements with Ottoman Arabic Literature

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Deni Hoxha

AM Candidate in Regional Studies—Middle East
Founder, Harvard Albanian Students Association

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dhoxha@g.harvard.edu

Harun Buljina

Associate

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2020 Sep 24

Turkey's Identity Politics Inside Out: From Foreign Policy to Pop Culture

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location:

online webinar (see registration link below)

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Lisel Hintz
Assistant Professor of International Relations and European Studies, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies

Discussant: Lenore G. Martin, Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, Emmanuel College; Associate of both the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

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Ghazi Ghazi

AM Candidate in Regional Studies—Middle East
Managing Editor, Harvard Kennedy School's Journal of Middle Eastern Politics and Policy

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gghazi@g.harvard.edu

Jordan Cannon

PhD Candidate in History and Middle Eastern Studies

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jordancannon@g.harvard.edu

Aga of the Janissaries. Colored engraving by Jacques Charles Bar, 1789. Harvard Fine Arts Library

Late Ottomania in the Fine Arts Library’s Binney Collection

August 11, 2020

During spring 2020, Gavin Moulton '20 worked in Harvard's Fine Arts Library with the newly acquired Binney Collection of Orientalist Prints, a group of prints, drawings, lithographs, and other ephemera related to perceptions of the Ottomans in Western and Central Europe. Moulton, who has studied Turkish with Precepter Meryym Demir and Senior Preceptor...

Turkey’s Hagia Sophia Decision as Foreign Policy Signal

July 14, 2020

On July 10, 2020, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed an order which would allow the disintegration of Hagia Sophia’s museum status and turn it back into a mosque. Read an analysis in the Journal of Middle Eastern Politics and Policy at Harvard Kennedy School by CMES AM student and JMEPP...

Timelessness in Florence: Lockdowns, Flooding, and Disruption

July 6, 2020

While conducting dissertation research in Italy during the 2019-20 academic year, Maryam Patton, PhD candidate in History and Middle East Studies, has had the unusual fortune to experience both severe flooding in Venice and quarantine in Florence. Here is her account.... Read more about Timelessness in Florence: Lockdowns, Flooding, and Disruption

I, Istanbul

February 8, 2020

This January, Selina Xu (Harvard College '21) participated in CMES's fifth annual winter term excursion to Turkey. Read about and see photographs of her experience on her website, Selina Xu, Telling Life Like a Story. Read more about I, Istanbul

2020 Mar 24