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Roger Owen to retire from teaching to focus solely on research

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Students in HIST-1891 “Understanding the Middle East since 1945: The Basic Socio-Economic and Political Structures” and HIST 78a “The Middle East during the First Wave of Modern Globalization 1870-1925” this semester will be the last at Harvard to benefit...

A conversation with incoming CMES Director William Granara

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William Granara is Gordon Gray Professor of Arabic and teaches Arabic language and literature. He is currently the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and of the Moroccan Studies Program at Harvard. In addition he is the founding director of...

In Memory of Richard N. Frye

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CMES is saddened to report that Richard Nelson Frye, Aga Khan Professor of Iranian Emeritus, passed away on March 27, 2014 at the age of ninety-four. After receiving his PhD from Harvard in 1949, Professor Frye helped to found the Center for Middle...

Q&A With Nana-Korantema Koranteng

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Nana-Korantema Koranteng is a second-year student in the CMES AM Program in Middle Eastern Studies. Why did you choose CMES? I selected CMES because I felt like it was the program that provided me with the most flexibility. Having gone to a liberal arts...

Yo-Yo Ma Comes to Tunisia, with a Little Help from CMES

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When world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76 and his Bach Project visited Tunisia in March 2022, it was the realization of plans set in motion over two years earlier with help from members of the CMES Tunisia community. The Bach Project ( bach.yo-yoma.com)...

Q&A with Hassan Al-Damluji

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Hassan Al-Damluji, CMES AM ’08, is Head of Middle East Relations at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He is responsible for the foundation’s Middle East strategy across program areas and serves as the lead Middle East adviser to Bill and Melinda Gates...

Q&A with Chloe Bordewich

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Chloe Bordewich is a PhD candidate in History and Middle Eastern Studies. How did you become interested in Middle Eastern studies? In 2006, when I was 16, I went to Cairo for three weeks as part of a now-defunct State Department–funded exchange program...

Q&A with Kyle McEneaney

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Kyle McEneaney graduated with an AM in Middle Eastern Studies in 2007. Since graduating he has worked in consulting and investment banking, specializing in Iraq’s emerging economy. He is currently based in Dubai and works with an Iraqi group of companies...

Q&A with Wadah Al-Shugaa 

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Wadah Al-Shugaa is a student in the CMES AM Program in Regional Studies — Middle East. How did you become interested in Middle East Studies? I was born and grew up in the green mountains of Ibb, Yemen before moving with my family to New York City in 2002...

Readings and Digital Resources on Palestine

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Rosie Bsheer, Assistant Professor of History, and Cemal Kafadar, Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies, both core faculty members of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, recommend the following English-language materials and resources to contextualize...