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Congratulations, 2023-24 CMES Graduates!

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CMES is pleased to congratulate this year's graduating students in our AM program. AM Graduates Chacier Alexander—Thesis: "Political Philosophy and Esotericism: A Study of Al-Farabi and Leo Strauss" / Advisor: Khaled El-Rouayheb Naif Alrogi Hamad...

Harvard Offers Kurdish Language Course for First Time in University History

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Harvard offered its first Kurdish language course in the University’s history this fall after students from Kurdish-speaking backgrounds pushed for its creation. The course focuses not only on the Kurdish language but also on topics in Kurdish culture...

Harvard Students Launch Fundraisers for Morocco Earthquake Relief

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Harvard students and affiliates raised more than $19,000 in donations through fundraisers for disaster relief following a deadly earthquake that hit Morocco last Friday. The earthquake, which struck near Marrakesh, Morocco, is one of the deadliest to hit...

Sohbet-i Osmani

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Sohbet-i Osmani presents the work of historians of Ottoman history. Chair: Cemal Kafadar

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...

MESA Board Statement on Palestine and Israel

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The Executive Committee of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies endorses the October 16, 2023, statement by the Board of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) condemning the killing of all civilians in Palestine and Israel. The statement asserts...

Amid Violence in the Middle East, Palestinian American Poet Shares Work at Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies

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Lisa Suhair Majaj — an author and scholar of Arab American Literature — shared a collection of her poems at a Tuesday event at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Majaj, who was born in America and grew up in Jordan, shared 17 of her poems chronicling...

Annual HMECA Book Sale and Fundraiser!

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Stop by CMES 102 to support HMECA, score some cheap books ($1-$5 each!) and reconnect with CMES students and faculty at the HMECA book sale! All books have been generously donated by CMES faculty, researchers, and friends. Cash and Venmo will be accepted...

Israel’s Third Transformation: Electoral Politics and the Future of the State

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The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents Derek Penslar, William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History, Harvard University, and Shaul Magid, Dartmouth College Distinguished Fellow in Jewish Studies and Visiting Professor of Modern Jewish Studies...

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ethno-Religious Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire: The Case of the Adana Massacres of 1909

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The Hrant Dink Memorial CMES Fund, The Mashtots Chair of Armenian Studies and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations present Bedross Der Matossian Professor of Modern Middle East History, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Contact: nelc...

Living Together After ‘Ethnic’ Violence: Preliminary Insights from Bosnia and Lebanon

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The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents Melani Cammett Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs in the Department of Government and Director of the Weatherhead Center of International Affairs, Harvard University, and Mashail Malik Assistant...

The Ragusa Road and the Ottoman Balkans

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In a new episode of the Ottoman Podcast, CMES Associate Director for Research Jesse Howell (PhD '17) discusses the history of the early modern caravan route between Ragusa (modern-day Dubrovnik) and Istanbul. In attending to the long-distance connections...