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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...

CMES Launches Newsletter

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With the kick-off of the 2010-2011 academic year, CMES releases its Fall 2010 Newsletter. Highlights in this issue include an introduction of CMES’ new director, Professor Baber Johansen, student news, new publications and research, faculty awards, and...

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CMES works hard to keep in touch with alumni and to foster continuing relationships. Update Your Contact Information If your home or work contact information has recently changed (or if you are not receiving email communications from us) please send your...

Message from President Bacow Regarding the Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria

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With the permission of Harvard University President Lawrence Bacow, we are sharing the message he sent to the Center for Middle Eastern Studies Director on Wednesday, February 15. Dear Cemal, Please know that I, like so many others, have been watching...

News from Iraq Becomes More, Deliberately, Personal and More Difficult to Interpret

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By Roger Owen America’s long academic summer vacations are usually quiet times for writing and reflection with little disturbing news from the national or international arena. So it was this year too at Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies with our...

Big news for recent CMES PhDs

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The past year has brought some great news for several recent CMES graduates, including assistant professorships at the University of Chicago and Columbia University, a fellowship at a DC-based think tank, and the publication of a book with Oxford...

CMES in the Media: Outreach Event Featured in Harvard Crimson

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Celebrating Nowruz, an event co-sponsored by the Outreach Center, was the subject of an article in the March 19th, 2008 edition of the Harvard Crimson. Jaclyn Michael and Paul Beran are quoted in the news item. Read the full piece at Persian Community...

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...

Q&A with Nicholas Norberg

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Nicholas Norberg is a first-year student in the AM in Middle Eastern Studies program. How did you become interested in Middle Eastern studies? I became interested in Middle Eastern studies through my love of language acquisition. I studied linguistics as...

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...

Harvard Gazette: "Water crisis, made clear"

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Earlier this month, the CMES Outreach Center, along with six other Harvard area studies centers and programs, and the Harvard Global Health Institute, conducted a four-day workshop for K-12 educators titled "Teaching Water: Global Perspectives on a...

CMES Executive Committee Joins Association for Iranian Studies and MESA in Support of Protests at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran

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The Executive Committee of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies endorses the October 3 joint statement by the Board of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) and the Association for Iranian Studies in support of the peaceful protests by students and...