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Congratulations, CMES Graduates 2019–20!

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CMES is pleased to congratulate this year's graduating class of eight students who earned a master's degree in Regional Studies—Middle East and its graduating PhD students. AM Graduates and Thesis Titles Badriyyah S. Alsabah Sultan Faiez Althari Hannah M...

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Representing Power at the Court of Ottoman Tunisia in the 19th Century

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The 2019–2020 Harvard University Aga Khan Program Lecture Series: A Forum for Islamic Art & Architecture & CMES present Ridha Moumni Art historian and curator, 2019-20 CMES Tunisia Postdoctoral Fellow Ridha Moumni is an art historian and curator...

Year in Review: A Message from 2019-20 CMES Acting Director Cemal Kafadar

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The original script made it look easy. I was going to be Acting Director for a year, while Bill Granara would enjoy his hard-earned sabbatical leave. The first eight months were indeed smooth, thanks above all to our administrative staff, working with...

**POSTPONED to OCT 2020** Escaping Blockade: The Politics of Youth Migration in Gaza

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The CMES Middle East Forum presents Caitlin Procter, PhD Max Weber Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute Please note: due to University precautions surrounding the Coronavirus Disease 2019...

Film Screening: US Premiere of "Lyd" and Discussion with the Filmmakers

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This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required as seating is limited. Please submit one registration form per person. REGISTER . (Doors will open at 6:30pm .) Religion and Public Life’s Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative at...

Is Activism Futile?: The Case of Israel

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The 2023 Hilda B. Silverman Lecture Series, co-sponsored by the CMES Middle East Forum and the Religion and Public Life's Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative (Harvard Divinity School), presents Amira Hass Journalist, Haaretz Amira Hass is the Haaretz...

Timelessness in Florence: Lockdowns, Flooding, and Disruption

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While conducting dissertation research in Italy during the 2019-20 academic year, Maryam Patton, PhD candidate in History and Middle East Studies, has had the unusual fortune to experience both severe flooding in Venice and quarantine in Florence. Here is...

I, Istanbul

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This January, Selina Xu (Harvard College '21) participated in CMES's fifth annual winter term excursion to Turkey. Read about and see photographs of her experience on her website, Selina Xu, Telling Life Like a Story.

The Twin Crises and the Prospects for Political Sectarianism in Lebanon

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In an article for the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies, CMES faculty affiliate Melani Cammett and Lama Mourad, Postdoctoral Fellow at Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania, address the question, “Will the financial crisis, exacerbated further by...

MESA Board Statement in Solidarity with the Uprisings against Systemic Racism and Anti-Blackness

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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies endorses the June 29 statement by the Board of the Middle East Studies Association condemning systemic racism and anti-Blackness: "We stand in solidarity with our Black American members, as well as with Black and Afro...

Turkey’s Hagia Sophia Decision as Foreign Policy Signal

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On July 10, 2020, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed an order which would allow the disintegration of Hagia Sophia’s museum status and turn it back into a mosque. Read an analysis in the Journal of Middle Eastern Politics and Policy at Harvard...