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In Name Only: Dismantling Citizenship & Human Rights Across the Arab World

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The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents Denis Sullivan Director, Boston Consortium for Arab Region Studies (BCARS), and Professor of Political Science & International Affairs, Northeastern University Co-sponsors: Center for Middle Eastern Studies...

Book talk: 'City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk'

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CMES Modern Middle East Speaker Series presents Arbella Bet-Shlimon Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Washington Arbella Bet-Shlimon is a historian of the modern Middle East and assistant professor of History at the University of...

Book talk: New Authors on Palestine

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CMES Modern Middle East Speaker Series presents Noura Erakat: Justice for Some: Law As Politics in the Question of Palestine Seth Anziska: Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo Tareq Baconi: Hamas Contained: The Rise and...

Book talk: 'Islands of Heritage: Conservation and Transformation in Yemen'

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CMES Modern Middle East Speaker Series presents Nathalie Peutz Associate Professor of Arab Crossroads Studies, NYU Abu Dhabi Nathalie Peutz received her PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Princeton University. Her research, based on fieldwork conducted in...

Book talk: 'The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt'

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CMES Modern Middle East Speaker Series presents Jennifer L. Derr Associate Professor, Department of History, University of California, Santa Cruz Jennifer L. Derr is an associate professor of History at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her...

CMES Graduate Student Conference Funding

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This fund is open to CMES students who are presenting at conferences. Please include the dates of the conference and upload your formal invitation to the conference, or your name on the program. This fund is separate from the Harvard Griffin GSAS...

CMES Travel and Research Funding

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Limited funding is available during winter and summer terms for travel and research.

Harvard Griffin GSAS Policies

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Please see the Harvard Griffin GSAS Policies page for official policies, including course enrollment and graduation.

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 Chloe Safier

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Chloe Safier works for Oxfam International where she is the Gender Justice Coordinator. She graduated with an AM in Middle Eastern Studies in 2010. What brought you to CMES and to an AM in Middle Eastern Studies? While I was an undergraduate at Wesleyan...

Q&A with Naghmeh Sohrabi

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Naghmeh Sohrabi is the Charles (Corky) Goodman Professor of Middle East History and the Associate Director for Research at the Crown Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University. She completed her PhD in History and Middle East Studies at CMES...

HMECA Book Sale 2019

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The Harvard Middle East Cultural Association invites you to its Annual Book Sale and Fundraiser Stop by CMES to support HMECA and add some books and journal issues to your collection ($1-$5 each!). Thursday & Friday, September 19 & 20, 10am-3pm each day...