The CMES New Works in Middle East Studies series presents

Beeta Baghoolizadeh
Associate Research Scholar, Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, Princeton University

Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been CANCELLED.... Read more about CANCELLED Book talk "The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran"

The WCFIA/CMES Middle East Seminar is pleased to present

Ahmad Mohammadpour
Assistant Professor of of Sociology of Race and Ethnic Relations, Dept. of Sociology, Bentley University and MESA Global Academy Scholar, 2020-2021

Discussant: Stanley I. Thangaraj, James E. Hayden Chair for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, & Social Justice, Professor of Anthropology and Sociology, Stonehill College
... Read more about Iranian Nationalism and the Different Shades of Internal Colonialism: Kurds and Other non-Persian Minorities

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Assyrian Foundation of America, and the Naby Frye Assyrian Fund for Culture are pleased to present

Mira Xenia Schwerda
Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art 2023-2024; IASH Fellow 2022-2023

This talk will take place online; please register in advance on Zoom here: https://bit.ly/3L90xMO.... Read more about An Archive of Fragmented Memories: The Concept of Time in the 'Ali Khan Vali Album

The CMES/WCFIA Middle East Seminar is pleased to present

Trita Parsi
Executive Vice President, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, and

Fatemeh Haghighatjoo
CEO, Nonviolent Initiative for Democracy and former member of the Iranian Parliament

Discussant: Stephen Kinzer, Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University and author of All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror

This talk will take place on Zoom; please register in advance: https://bit.ly/3GTkwgS.
... Read more about Examining Iran’s Domestic and Foreign Relations: From Achievements and Limitations of the Protest Movement to the Saudi-Iranian Agreement

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present

Eden Naby
Independent Scholar

This talk is one of the events related to the exhibit now on view at CMES: Assyrians from Persia (Iran)to the United States, 1887-1923: Assyrian Education, American Missionaries and the Search for a Home.... Read more about The Modern Assyrian Historical Record: An American Family Adventure

The Naby Frye Assyrian Fund for Culture, the Assyrian Foundation of America, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, are pleased to present the exhibit

Assyrians from Persia (Iran) to the United States, 1887-1923: Assyrian Education, American Missionaries and the Search for a Home

Please note: This exhibit is open Monday-Thursday, 9am-5pm.

... Read more about Exhibit: Assyrians from Persia (Iran) to the United States, 1887-1923: Assyrian Education, American Missionaries and the Search for a Home

The CMES Director's Series is pleased to present

Familial Undercurrents: 
Untold Stories of Love and Marriage in Modern Iran

with

Afsaneh Najmabadi
Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University

... Read more about Book talk: "Familial Undercurrents Untold Stories of Love and Marriage in Modern Iran"

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present

Women in Iran: An Evening of Films by Rakhshan Banietemad with

Naghmeh Sohrabi
Charles (Corky) Goodman Professor of Middle East History and the Director for Research at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University, and

Ramyar Rossoukh
Assistant Director for Research at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University
... Read more about Women in Iran: An Evening of Films by Rakhshan Banietemad

The Harvard Radcliffe Institute presents

Hannah Darabi
Artist and photographer

Naghmeh Sohrabi
Charles (Corky) Goodman Chair in Middle East History, Brandeis University... Read more about Woman, Life, Freedom: Iran’s Women-Led Protests in Context

This event has been postponed.

The WCFIA and CMES Middle East Seminar presents

Trita Parsi
Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

Discussant: Stephen Kinzer, Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University; Author, All the Shah's Men, and former New York Times correspondent... Read more about *POSTPONED* Biden, Iran and the Nuclear Issue - Can the US-Iran Enmity be Buried?