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Video: Workshop on Military Regimes, Diversity, and Sectarianism in Muslim Societies

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A workshop help October 24-25, 2014. Organized by the Initiative on Contemporary Islamic Societies, with support from the Henry Luce Foundation. Panel One: Post-colonial military regimes and the management of diversity (Cemal Kafadar, Harvard University...

Audio: A New History of Print in Ottoman Cairo

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We often regard print as a motor of social change, leaving revolutions in its wake. For historians of the Middle East, this line of thought leads to the (predictable) question: why didn’t Muslims or Ottomans or Arabs adopt print? In a new episode of the...

Migration and Health Care Panel Discussion

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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a panel on migration and health care featuring Elizabeth H. Shlala, Saime Ozcurumez, and Lloy Wylie Obstacles to Securing the Right to Health Care for Sri Lankan Domestic Workers in the GCC Elizabeth H...

DATE CHANGE: Sohbet-i Osmani Panel: Amr Ahmed, Günil Özlem Ayaydin Cebe, Gül Neşe Doğusan Alexander

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The Sohbet-i Osmani Seminar Series presents Dr. Amr Ahmed, Dr. Günil Özlem Ayaydin Cebe, & Dr. Gül Neşe Doğusan Alexander PLEASE NOTE : this event will now take place on Wednesday, May 4th Kurdish Poetic Modernity: A shift in Literary Connections from the...

Order of Volatility: Wealth, Power and Death in the Ottoman Empire, 1450-1830

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Sohbet-i Osmani presents Ali Yaycioglu Ali Yaycioglu is a historian of the Ottoman Empire intersecting Early-Modern Europe and the Muslim World. His book, Partners of the Empire: Crisis of the Ottoman Order in the Age of Revolutions (Stanford University...

Philosophy in Turkey during the Turbulent Years

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The Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series presents Adnan Onart Professor, Boston University PLEASE NOTE: the location of this talk is Knafel 354, 1737 Cambridge Street Please note: this event will take place in the Knafel Building, Room 354. Contact: Liz...

Intellectuals and State: Personal and Scholarly Reflections on Turkish Democracy

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The Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series presents Halil Ibrahim Yenigun "Academic for Peace" and former Assistant Professor of Political Theory, Istanbul Commerce University Contact: Liz Flanagan

Defender of Urban Gardens

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Aleksandar Sopov, PhD candidate in the joint program of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the History Department, helped save Istanbul green spaces, but has broader hopes. "I had to save them," he says. “When those public places are erased, it...

The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer

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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, and author of the blog...

Ritual (Cem), Worship-place (Cemevi), and Identity Formation: The Alevi Question of Turkey

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The Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World presents Riza Yildirim Associate Professor & Vice-chair, Department of History, TOBB University of Economics & Technology, Ankara; Fulbright Visiting Professor, Department of Religion, Boston University Contact...