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Audio: Interviews with Jocelyne Cesari on WBUR and ThoughtCast.org

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Jocelyne Cesari, CMES Associate and Director of the Islam in the West Program, was interviewed by Martha Bebinger for a February 28, 2011 piece on WBUR about a Roxbury mosque's search for the right imam. You can listen to the piece at http://www.wbur.org...

Audio: A Life in Middle East Studies with Roger Owen

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In this episode of the Fares Center Podcast at the Fletcher School, Roger Owen, A.J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History Emeritus at Harvard and former director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, discusses his recently published volume of...

Audio: A New History of Print in Ottoman Cairo

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We often regard print as a motor of social change, leaving revolutions in its wake. For historians of the Middle East, this line of thought leads to the (predictable) question: why didn’t Muslims or Ottomans or Arabs adopt print? In a new episode of the...

Audio: Resettling Syrian Refugees: The Intersection of Rehabilitation and Protection

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In a panel conversation with experts and practitioners, this Advanced Training Program on Humanitarian Action (ATHA) podcast explores how the Syrian refugee crisis is reshaping host communities in the Middle East, what challenges remain for the protection...

Online Book Group: Miral Al-Tahawy's "Brooklyn Heights"

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Join the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Center for African Studies for a live online discussion of Miral Al-Tahawy's Brooklyn Heights with Professor Ben Smith, Visiting Assistant Professor at Swarthmore College. Registration required. Click...

Book talk "Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt"

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The CMES New Works in Middle East Studies series presents Andrew G. Simon Senior Lecturer, Middle Eastern Studies, Dartmouth College Media of the Masses investigates the social life of an everyday technology—the cassette tape—to offer a multisensory...

Iranian Oral History Project Gets an Update

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The Iranian Oral History Project, launched in 1981 at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and directed by Habib Ladjevardi, recorded the personal accounts of 134 individuals who played major roles in or were eyewitnesses to important political events in...

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...

A Troubled Turkey

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Morton Abramowitz is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation. He is on the boards of the International Rescue Committee, the International Crisis Group, and Human Rights in North Korea, and is on the advisory council of the National Interest quarterly...

FOCUS ON: Arab Transformation

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Recordings of the talks by Jon Alterman, Melani Cammett, and James Gelvin are available here. Audio from Nathan Brown's talk is available here. In November and December 2012 CMES is sponsoring a series of talks focusing on the ongoing transformations in...

William Granara on the Ottoman History Podcast

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During the 9th century, Arab armies from North Africa conquered Sicily, leading to four centuries of Muslim history on the island, which is now part of Italy. Sicily during that period has often been portrayed as an interfaith utopia where Muslims...

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...