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Understanding Western Peacebuilding in the occupied Palestinian territory: A Critical Approach

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The CMES Middle East Forum is pleased to present Mandy Turner Director, Kenyon Institute/Council for British Research in the Levant, East Jerusalem, and Visiting Research Fellow, Middle East Centre, London School of Economics Lunch will be served. Contact...

Jerusalem: Towards a Workable Final Status Solution

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The Middle East Seminar is pleased to present Constance Mayer Chief, The Arab-Israeli, Levant and North Africa Division, Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR)/Office of Analysis on the Near East and South Asia (NESA), U.S. Department of State Contact...

Elif Irem Az

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Elif Irem Az is a medical and political-economic anthropologist, poet, and Disaster Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. She received her PhD in sociocultural anthropology from Columbia University in...

al Bustani's Arabic Encyclopedia (1870s-1880s) and the Global Production of Knowledge in the Late Ottoman Levant

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The Weatherhead Initiative on Global History presents Ilham Khuri Makdisi Associate Professor, Northeastern University Commentator: Leila Fawaz, Issam M. Fares Professor of Lebanese & Eastern Mediteranean Studies, Tufts University Graduate student...

**CANCELLED** Book talk: "Reviving the Waqf: Property, Law, and Religion in Modern Beirut"

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CMES Modern Middle East Speaker Series presents Nada Moumtaz Assistant Professor, Department of the Study of Religion, University of Toronto Please note: due to University precautions surrounding the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID 2019) outbreak, this...

Prospects for Peace in Syria: Can the New Administration Help?

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The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents Ambassador Robert S. Ford Senior fellow, Middle East Institute; Fellow, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University; United States Ambassador to Syria, 2010-2014; United States Ambassador to Algeria...

The Syrian Revolution: What Lies Ahead?

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Missed this event? Read the Harvard Gazette's coverage. Murhaf Jouejati is Professor of Middle East Studies at the National Defense University and a member of the Syrian National Council; presented by the Middle East Seminar, Lenore Martin, Sara Roy, and...

Talk in Arabic: For the Love of Qahwa: Qahwa as a Social Beverage from Wine to Tea

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The CMES Arabic Lecture Series presents Hacı Osman Gündüz, PhD Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Please note: this talk will be given in Arabic. In this talk, I explore the transformation of the term qahwa, which...

Marks of Contagion: The Plague, the Bourse, the Word and the Law in the Early Modern Mediterranean 1720-1762

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This dissertation is a study of two episodes of mass mortality, in Marseilles during 1720–21, and in Aleppo, Syria, during 1761–62. Linked by trade ties, missionary outreach, and diplomatic contacts, the two cities were a microcosm of eighteenth-century...

Second International Symposium on Diversity and Unity in Transnational Shi’a Islam

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The WCFIA Project on Shi'ism & Global Affairs presents its Second International Symposium on Diversity and Unite in Transnational Shi'a Islam Register in advance: bit.ly/shia-symposium-reg A historic symposium series bringing together diverse voices from...

Preventing Palestine: How Diplomacy Curtailed Statehood

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The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents Seth Anziska Assistant Professor, University College London; Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Taub Center, New York University, 2016-2017 Dr. Anziska’s research is focused on the international history of the Middle...

Q&A with Ellen Stockert

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Ellen Stockert is a second-year student in the AM in Middle Eastern Studies program. How did you become interested in Middle Eastern studies? I have always enjoyed studying history, language, and government, and I pursued an undergraduate degree in...