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'Homeland (Iraq Year Zero)'

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The Harvard Film Archive is pleased to present Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) by Abbas Fahdel Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) is a riveting home-movie chronicle of life in Iraq before and after the US invasion. Offering all-too-rare images of everyday life in Iraq...

Growing Up in Contemporary Iraq

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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents Growing Up in Contemporary Iraq This one-day symposium will focus on Iraq's youth: what it is like to be one of the 20 million young Iraqis under 30 living in Iraq today. Growing Up in Contemporary Iraq will...

Iraq: from dictatorship to what?

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The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents Ambassador Fareed Yasseen Ambassador of Iraq to the United States Educated in Iraq, Switzerland and the United States and trained as a Physicist, initially Ambassador Fareed Yasseen carried out research in...

Assyrians in Modern Iraq: Negotiating a Political and Cultural Space

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The Mishael and Lillie Naby Assyrian Lecture Fund, NELC and CMES are pleased to present Alda Benjamen Assistant Professor in Middle East History, Department of History, University of Dayton Alda Benjamen is an Assistant Professor of Modern Middle Eastern...

Iraq's Future: Roughly Divided Into Three Again?

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By Roger Owen The surprising and in many ways shocking emergence of ISIS as one of the best trained, best financed, and most highly motivated and militarily effective fighting forces in the Arab east has led to much talk of an erasure of the old colonial...

The Iran-Iraq War: Literature, Art and Film

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The Center for Middle Easter Studies presents a symposium The Iran-Iraq War: Literature, Art and Film Organized by CMES Director William Granara. The Iran–Iraq War lasted eight years, ended in stalemate, and cost hundreds of thousands of lives on both...

"A War of Choice: The British in Iraq 2003-9" by CMES visiting fellow Jack Fairweather

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CMES visiting fellow Jack Fairweather has published A War of Choice: The British in Iraq 2003-9 (Jonathan Cape 2011), which he finished last year while at Harvard, aided by access to the Harvard libraries. [In the book, Fairweather] gives a comprehensive...

Book talk: "Familiar Futures: Time, Selfhood, and Sovereignty in Iraq"

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CMES Modern Middle East Speaker Series presents Sara D. Pursley Assistant Professor, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University Sara D. Pursley works on the cultural, social, and intellectual history of the modern Arab Middle East, mainly...

Seven Years of Occupation in Iraq and What For?

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By Roger Owen The departure of the last US combat troops from Iraq has been the occasion for much comment in North America. Nevertheless, much of it seems to miss the point. For one thing, it is almost always based on the typically American assumption...

Book Launch & Author Talk: Zaid Al-Ali, "The Struggle for Iraq’s Future: How Corruption, Incompetence and Sectarianism Have Undermined Democracy"

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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies Outreach Program is pleased to present an author talk by Zaid Al-Ali Senior Adviser on Constitution Building, International IDEA Moderated by Noah Feldman, Bemis Professor of International Law, Harvard Law School...

Iraq: Possible Futures - Including a return to the past

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CMES presents a symposium Iraq: Possible Futures - Including a return to the past Since its creation out of the three Ottoman Provinces - Basra, Baghdad and Mosul - after 1914, Iraq has been occupied several times, battled with Kurdish separatism, subject...

CMES in the Media: Roger Owen on Iraq in Boston Globe

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Roger Owen offers his view on American policy and the complexities of sectarian forces in Iraq in the September 28, 2007 edition of the Boston Globe. Read the full op-ed here: Chaos and unity in a fragmented Iraq on boston.com By Roger Owen | September 28...