Naghmeh Sohrabi is the Charles (Corky) Goodman Professor of Middle East History and the Associate Director for Research at the Crown Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University. She completed her PhD in History and Middle East Studies at CMES in 2005.... Read more about Q&A with Naghmeh Sohrabi

Chloe Safier works for Oxfam International where she is the Gender Justice Coordinator. She graduated with an AM in Middle Eastern Studies in 2010.... Read more about Q&A with Chloe Safier

Kyle McEneaney graduated with an AM in Middle Eastern Studies in 2007. Since graduating he has worked in consulting and investment banking, specializing in Iraq’s emerging economy. He is currently based in Dubai and works with an Iraqi group of companies focused on the oil and gas sector in Iraq.... Read more about Q&A with Kyle McEneaney

On September 5, Professors Tarek Masoud, of Harvard Kennedy School, and Roger Owen, from the Department of History, along with graduate student Sarah Moawad, who recently returned to campus after several weeks in Egypt, discussed that country's recent unrest in front of a capacity crowd at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Read the full article in the Harvard Gazette.

Presentations in English with Arabic recitations. Presented by the CMES Working Group on Middle East Literature in Transition: New Frontiers in the 21st Century.... Read more about Video: Sahra Shi’riyya (An Evening of Poetry)

Adam Shatz, contributing editor at the London Review of Books and a visiting professor at the Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University, delivers the 2014 Hilda B. Silverman Memorial Lecture.... Read more about Video: Writers or Missionaries: Reporting the Middle East

Sherman A. Jackson, King Faisal Chair in Islamic Thought and Culture and Professor of Religion and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, delivers the second lecture of the Fall 2013 H.A.R. Gibb Arabic and Islamic Studies Lecture Series. Also see a video of Jackson's first lecture in the series.

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Sherman A. Jackson, King Faisal Chair in Islamic Thought and Culture and Professor of Religion and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, delivers the first lecture of the Fall 2013 H.A.R. Gibb Arabic and Islamic Studies Lecture Series. Also see a video of Jackson's second lecture in the series.

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Recognizing the value in thoughtful and comprehensive research and analysis of Iran’s important role in the world, as well as its rich and diverse history, CMES is pleased to announce a new Iranian studies programming initiative. This programming, made possible by a generous anonymous donation, will support an array of lectures and workshops and serve as a catalyst to ignite future Iranian programming at Harvard. Gurney Professor of History Roy P. Mottahedeh, who was “delighted to hear about this wonderful donation,” will be leading the initiative. One of the first workshops in this series...