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Congratulations, 2024-25 CMES Graduates!

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CMES is pleased to congratulate this year's graduating students in our AM, AB/AM, and joint PhD programs. AM Graduates Mohammad Al-Mailam—Thesis: "Who Comes and Who Goes? Explaining Citizens" Migration Preferences in the Gulf" / Advisor: Melani Cammett...

Luke Leafgren

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After taking BA degrees in English and theology from Columbia University and the University of Oxford, Luke received his PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University in 2012. His dissertation examined the way Christian Arabs of the nahda...

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Published once a year, CMES News contains news on the activities of our faculty, students, visiting researchers, and alumni, as well as highlights of past and upcoming events. Printed copies are available at CMES. To receive future issues of our...

The Kurdish Peace Process and the Future of the Middle East

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The WCFIA Global Scholars Network on Identity Conflict presents a panel on the Kurdish peace process with Ayşe Betül Çelik, Weatherhead Center Visiting Scholar and Professor, Sabancı University Ibrahim Al-Assil, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Middle East...

Teagan Cameron

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Teagan entered the joint program in History and Middle Eastern Studies in 2024. Her research focusses on the Ottoman janissary corps and transformations in its social role and identity in the early modern period. More broadly, her research interests...

In Memoriam: Professor Baber Johansen

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Baber Johansen (1936-2026) Born in Berlin in 1936, Baber Johansen received his PhD in Islamic studies from the Freie Universität Berlin in 1965, also having studied Arabic literature at Cairo University (1961–62). He received the habilitation in research...

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