e-CMES Reporters

Gracye Cheng, Editor
Gracye Cheng is a junior at Harvard University concentrating in history and literature, where she focuses on the regions of North and Latin America and sociology. At Harvard, her favorite activities have been writing and editing for the Harvard Crimson; planning and co-directing HSYLC, an annual summer leadership conference for about 300 Chinese high school students in Shanghai; and doing research at Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Center for Research on Culture, Development and Education, where she works with data on low-income immigrant communities.

Tamara Jafar, Reporter
Tamara Jafar is a native of Ann Arbor, Michigan. She is currently a senior at Harvard University writing her undergraduate honors thesis on the origins of polarized sectarian identity and conflict in post-2003 Iraq.  

Tamara is the founder of Rally for Iraq, a nonprofit organization that provides scholarships to Iraqi students seeking to pursue higher-level education in the U.S. In 2008, she conducted interviews and research on the conditions of Iraqi refugees while interning at the UNHCR Branch Office in Amman, Jordan. Prior to that, she worked at the Embassy of the Republic of Iraq in Washington, D.C. 

Alina Mogilyanskaya, Reporter

 

Contributors from the CMES Community

Yasmine Alsaleh, PhD candidate in history of art and architecture

Dilek Barlow, AM '04

Lisa Bernasek, PhD '08

Ondrej Beranek, former CMES visiting scholar

Julia Buchmann, AM '07

Hannah-Louise Clark, AM '06

Tom de Georges, PhD '06

Mark Farha, PhD '07

Munir Fasheh, former CMES research associate and founder of the Tamer Institute

Ryuichi Funatsu, AM '06

John Gault, PhD '75

Rachel Goshgarian, PhD '07

Sükrü Ilicak, PhD '09

Richard A. Johnson, AM '05

Darryl Li, PhD candidate

Zachary Lockman, PhD '05

Cemal Kafadar, Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies

Firth McEachern, AB '08

Jesse Marglin, AM '07

Kyle McEneaney, '07

E. Roger Owen, A.J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History

Barbara Petzen, former director of the Outreach Center at CMES

Anthony Shenoda, PhD candidate in Middle East studies and anthropology

Nicolas Trepanier, PhD '08

Lisa Urkevich, associate professor of musicology/ethnomusicology and director of the Arabian Heritage Project at the American University of Kuwait (AUK)

Sabeen Virani, AM '08

Leonard Wood, PhD candidate in Middle East studies and history