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CMES welcomes Shawwaf Visiting Professor Salim Tamari

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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to welcome Salim Tamari as the Spring 2013 Shawwaf Visiting Professor. Professor Tamari is professor of sociology at Birzeit University, senior fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies, adjunct...

Does CMES have visiting scholars?

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CMES’s resident scholarly community is augmented by an annual cohort of 15-20 visiting scholars and postdoctoral researchers. In addition, national and international faculty are invited to serve as H.A.R. Gibb Lecturers and Shawwaf Visiting Professors.

How a Leading Egyptian Historian Found Himself in the Middle of a Revolution

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>Khaled Fahmy, the 2015-2016 Shawwaf Visiting Professor at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, shares his memories of Egypt's uprising, five years after Tahrir, in a Huffington Post/World Post interview.

War Photography as Propaganda: The Ottoman Campaign to Win the Hearts and Minds of the Arabs during WWI

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The Middle East Forum is pleased to present Salim Tamari Professor of Sociology, Birzeit University; Director, Institute of Palestine Studies; Spring 2013 Shawwaf Visiting Professor at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies Contact: Sara Roy

Examining the Egyptian-Saudi Dispute Over the Red Sea Islands: Political and Legal Implications for the Middle East

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The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents Khaled Fahmy Shawwaf Visiting Professor of Modern Middle East History, CMES; Professor of History, American University in Cairo Khaled Fahmy is the Shawwaf Visiting Professor of Modern Middle Eastern Studies at...

The Harbor of Narrative: Beirut, the Novel, and the Memory of War (talk in Arabic)

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CMES is pleased to present Maher Jarrar Professor at the American University of Beirut, in both the Civilization Sequence Program and the Department of Arabic. He is Director of the Anis Makdisi Program in Literature. Currently, he is the Shawwaf Visiting...

Ambassadors of a Lost Homeland: The Diplomacy of Survival in the Andalusian–Morisco Experience (13th–17th Centuries)

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The Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program presents Houssem Eddine Chachia Shawwaf Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University RSVP here Co-sponsor: Center for Middle Eastern Studies Contact: Liz...

The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine

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The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar presents Salim Tamari Shawwaf Visiting Professor, Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University; Professor of Sociology Emeritus, Birzeit University, and...

Khaled Fahmy among GDI 100 Thought Leaders in Arabic-Speaking World

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Khaled Fahmy, Shawwaf Visiting Professor of Modern Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard, has been named one of 2016's top 100 Thought Leaders in the Arabic-speaking world by the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute (GDI), an independent think-tank in economics...

The Naksa Fifty Years Later: New Sources, Questions and Approaches to the ‘67 War

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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a conference On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the June 1967 War, this event seeks to explore new approaches to understand and rethink this pivotal and transformative moment in the history of the...

Translating the World: Contemporary Poetry from Saudi Arabia

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The Arabian Peninsula Studies Lecture Series presents Moneera al-Ghadeer Senior Advisor, Ministry of Culture, Riyadh with a reading by poet Dr. Fowziyah A. Abukhalid Register in advance: https://bit.ly/3fe9Zjn. Please note: this event will begin at 12pm...

Lives and Miracles: Narratives of Medieval Coptic and Muslim saints

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The Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program presents Amina Elbendary Shawwaff Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations RSVP Here Amina Elbendary is the Shawwaf Visiting Professor for Fall 2023 where she will...