The Bok Center awards the Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching to outstanding teaching fellows at a special reception each semester. Award recipients have achieved 4.5 or above on the CUE evaluation's 5-point scale, with at least 7 respondents from a section.

The following students at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies have received a score of 4.5 or higher for courses taught in the spring semester of 2006. Congratulations to these accomplished teachers!

• Iklil Erefe, HIS-STD A-40, The Middle East and Europe since the Crusades: Relations and Perceptions (Professor Cemal Kafadar)

• Nathan Fonder, HIST 1890b, Economic History of the Middle East since World War II (Professor E. Roger Owen)

• Rachel Goshgarian, HIS-STD A-40, The Middle East and Europe since the Crusades: Relations and Perceptions (Professor Cemal Kafadar)
  

• Anthony Shenoda, ANTHRO 97z, Sophomore Tutorial in Social Anthropology (Professor Mary Steedly)

• Aida Othman, ARABIC A, Elementary Arabic

• Dimitris Kastritsis, LIT-ART B-35, The Age of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent: Art, Architecture, and Ceremonial at the Ottoman Court (Professor Gülru Necipog˘lu-Kafadar)