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Congratulations, 2020-21 CMES Graduates!

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CMES is pleased to congratulate this year's graduating students in our AM, AB/AM, and PhD programs. AM Graduates and Thesis Titles Abdullah Almutabagani Mouhanad Al Rifay—Thesis: "Scattered Images: The Perpetual Destabilization of Family in Pursuit of...

Book talk: "The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, Palestinians"

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The CMES Director's Series presents Sa'ed Atshan Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, Swarthmore College; Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology & Visiting Scholar in Middle Eastern Studies, Univ of California, Berkeley (2020-21), and...

Fall 2020 Welcome from CMES Director William Granara

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Dear Members of Harvard’s CMES Family: It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to a new academic year! Although we continue to practice safe distancing, we are off to a warm, smooth, and enthusiastic semester start. For me, it is most enjoyable to be...

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The United States and Palestine: Defining Requirements for Change

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The CMES/WCFIA Middle East Seminar presents Ambassador Husam Zomlot Head of the Palestinian Mission to the United Kingdom Click here to register for this webinar: https://bit.ly/3oHEnns​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Sponsors: Weatherhead Center for International Affairs...

Alumni of the Crossroads Emerging Leaders Program Describe Its Impact

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Last week, the Mittal Institute collaborated with Network Capital to hold an information session for the upcoming 2021 Crossroads Emerging Leaders Program (CELP), where Harvard faculty and industry members discussed the impact of the program. Numerous...

Gülru Necipoğlu

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Gülru Necipoğlu has been Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art at Harvard University since 1993 where she earned her PhD in 1986. She specializes in the medieval and early modern periods, with a particular focus on the Mediterranean basin and Eastern Islamic...

Inspiring the Next Generation of Black Diplomats: A Foreign Service Officer's Story of Exchanges and Service

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In DipNote, the official blog of the US Department of State, CMES alum Keven Moss (AM '16), a Foreign Service Officer covering human rights and religious freedoms in Istanbul, recounts his early fascination with Arabic language and his journey through...

Lebanon's Citizen-State Rupture Requires a Total National Remake

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The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents Rami Khouri Senior Fellow at the Middle East Initiative, Harvard University; Journalist-in-Residence and adjunct professor of journalism and Coordinator, the American University of Beirut in the NYC Briefings...

The Kizilbash-Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia: Sufism, Politics, and Community

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In the latest program in the New Books Network’s Middle East Studies Series, History and Middle Eastern Studies PhD candidate Deren Ertas talks with Ayfer Karakaya-Stump (PhD 2008), Associate Professor of History at the College of William and Mary, about...

**POSTPONED** Whither? The Jews as a Diaspora Nation

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CMES is pleased to present the 2021 Hilda B. Silverman Memorial Lecturer Daniel Boyarin Hermann P. and Sophia Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture, Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley This lecture will be...