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The Politics of ‘Enemies within’: Collusion, Subversion and Loyalty Signaling by Religious Groups in Erdogan’s Turkey

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The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents Kristin Fabbe Jakurski Family Associate Professor, Harvard Business School Discussant: Andrew O'Donohue, PhD candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University Register in advance: https://bit.ly/2XVdXa6...

Efe Murat Balıkçıoğlu

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Balıkçıoğlu is a textual scholar and an intellectual historian whose research focuses on the intersection of philosophy, theology, and Sufism in the early modern Ottoman Empire. He is particularly interested in the Ottoman synthesis of Graeco-Arabic...

Disciples of the State? Religion and State-Building in the Former Ottoman World

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As the Ottoman Empire crumbled, the Middle East and Balkans became the site of contestation and cooperation between the traditional forces of religion and the emergent machine of the sovereign state. Yet such strategic interaction rarely yielded a...

The European Court of Human Rights and Turkey’s Kurdish Conflict

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The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies & CMES present Dilek Kurban Fellow and Lecturer, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3d6X0OY. Please note: this event will begin at 11am Eastern Daylight Time. If you...

Congratulations, 2022-23 CMES Graduates!

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CMES is pleased to congratulate this year's graduating students in our AM and PhD programs. AM Graduates Shamma Faisal Al Bastaki—Thesis: "Al-Majaz: A Crossing" / Advisor: Steve Caton / CMES Thesis Prize Faisal Alghassab Giulia Benvenuto—Thesis: "Islam as...

Congratulations, CMES Graduates 2018-19!

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CMES is pleased to congratulate this year's graduating class of eighteen students who earned a master's degree in Regional Studies—Middle East and its graduating PhD students. AM Graduates and Thesis Titles Hamad Al-Hajri Oula Alrifai— Thesis: The Self...

Congratulations, 2021-22 CMES Graduates!

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CMES is pleased to congratulate this year's graduating students in our AM and PhD programs. AM Graduates Reilly Barry Christina Bouri—Thesis: "Mīrī and Mawat: From the 1858 Ottoman Land Code to Modern Israeli Land Grabs in the West Bank" / Advisor: Rosie...

Economic Diversification for Oil-dependent Countries: Highlighting the Role of Institutional Quality

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Patterns of Ongoing Conflict Reconstruction Contract Distribution: Evaluating the Syrian Conflict

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Growing Up in Contemporary Iraq

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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents Growing Up in Contemporary Iraq This one-day symposium will focus on Iraq's youth: what it is like to be one of the 20 million young Iraqis under 30 living in Iraq today. Growing Up in Contemporary Iraq will...

Institutional Change and Continuity in the Era of Mohammad bin Salman: A Case Study of the Solar Power Industry in Saudi Arabia

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Recent AM Theses

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(Thesis advisors listed in parentheses.) 2018-19 "The Self-Flagellation of a Nation: Assad, Iran, and Regime Survival in Syria" Oula Alrifai (Nicholas Boylston) “Women’s Head Covering in Islam & Judaism," Amna Al-Thani (Afsaneh Najmabadi) “Minorities and...