Members of our community will participate in over 40 panels during the four-day conference.

Homeland Insecurity: The Arab-American Experience after 9/11, a lecture sponsored by CMES's Islam in the West program, was the subject of an article in the September 22nd, 2009 edition of the Harvard Crimson. Read the full article at Post 9/11, Prof Talks on Hate Crimes.  

An article by Jocelyne Cesari was publishedin the August 28th, 2009 issue of Religion Dispatches. 

Oil and the Contemporary Globe: A Multi-Regional/Multi-Subject Study on the Modern World’s Foundation, an event co-sponsored by the Outreach Center, was the subject of an article in the September 3rd-15th, 2009 edition of the Harvard Gazette. Read the full article at Oil Workshop Illuminates Complex Issue for Teachers or download the full issue at Harvard Gazette Online. 

A PDF of the Middle East Related Courses for Fall 2009 is now available.

CMES students and alumni have been particularly successful in the academic job search. Others have recent accomplishments or will go on to further their studies.

The CMES Alumni Reunion held in April 2009 was featured in the Summer 2009 edition of the Colloquy Alumni Quarterly.

The Harvard Crimon Commencement issue featured a letter by CMES Associate Sara Roy.

Jocelyne Cesari was quoted in a Boston Globe piece gauging the reaction of Massachusetts Muslims to President Barack Obama's address to the Muslim world in Cairo, Egypt.

Traveling as far as Tokyo, Japan and Venice, Italy to impart their expertise, CMES faculty members have been active participants in recent conferences and workshops on the Middle East.  

The Tamer Institute, founded by Munir Fasheh, recently won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. 

CMES faculty, staff, and affiliates warmly welcome alumni back to campus. The Center has been selected as the featured center for the 2009 GSAS Alumni Weekend.

An op-ed titled "Israel's 'victories' in Gaza come at a steep price" was featured in the Christian Science Monitor

Sara Roy's "If Gaza Falls..." was featured in the January 1, 2009 edition of the London Review of Book. In the piece, she outlines food,

An Islam in the West event "Will al-Qaida Self Destruct?" by Nelly Lahoud was featured in the Boston Globe.

Be sure to see CMES graduate students, faculty, alumni, visiting fellows, and past affiliates at this year's MESA Annual Meeting.

Jocelyne Cesari discusses Islam in the United States with Here and Now host Robin Young. The interview is in support of the two-volume Encyclopedia of Islam in the U.S.

The Bok Center awarded 11 CMES affiliates Certificates of Distinction in Teaching.

The Harvard Gazette features news of the SSRC grant.

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is greatly saddened by news of the passing of our esteemed colleague, Muhsin Mahdi.

The grant will fund a project that encourages public discourse between academics and journalists on the Islam in Context.

Lenore Martin examines recent actions by the Constitutional Court in Turkey.

Celebrating Nowruz was the subject of an article in the Harvard Crimson. Jaclyn Michael and Paul Beran are quoted in the news item.

CMES faculty member Roger Owen penned an op-ed piece for the Boston Globe in May. Titled "Back to the Endgame in Iraq," read the editorial here:

Roger Owen on boston.com

Roger Owen reviews Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East by Juan Cole in the September 24, 2007 issue of The Nation. Read his full review here: "The Uninvited Guest" on thenation.com

Roger Owen offers his view on American policy and the complexities of sectarian forces in Iraq in the September 28, 2007 edition of the Boston Globe. Read the full op-ed here: Chaos and unity in a fragmented Iraq on boston.com

Paul Beran featured in article about the Groton Public Library's Islam symposium.

Lenore Martin discusses the relationship between Turkey, Iraqi Kurds, and the U.S. in the Globe

Jocelyne Cesari is interviewed about her recent publication.

Don't miss MESA 2007 panels featuring members of the CMES community

A popular water exercise developed by the Outreach Center is being used to highlight water issues in the Middle East region. Islamic Relief, a global anti-poverty NGO, included the activity in the latest issue of their Partnership magazine to highlight the importance of water sources and the problems of water scarcity.

CMES is proud to announce the publication of the latest volume of HMEIR.

Richard Foltz's (CMES, 1996) book, Religions of the Silk Road, has recently been published in Turkish (Ipek Yolu Dinleri, Istanbul: Medrese Yayinlari, 2006) and in Persian (Dinha-ye Jadeh-ye Abrisham, Tehran: Entesharat-e Fararavan, 2007).

CMES and the Arabic program at Harvard are delighted to congratulate three students of Arabic who recently took the entrance exam for the Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA), Egypt, and were awarded full-year and summer fellowships.

On Friday, February 16 Armenian-Turkish musician Arto Tunçboyac‡yan will perform a concert in honor of slain Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink.

Sara Roy, CMES Associate, recently published her new book Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, through Pluto Press. The book is a compilation of Dr. Roy's selected works over the past two decades, and aims to give context, over time, for understanding why peace has failed and why Palestinians are now so compromised.

Lenore Martin, a Research Associate at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard, recently published an article entitled "Turkey's Iraq Problem" in The Washington Post.

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to announce that it will co-sponsor an upcoming conference entitled, Muslims in Europe and in the United States: A Transatlantic Comparison ...

CMES is pleased to introduce some of the 2006/2007 Visiting Scholars and Post-Doctoral Fellows. The biographies below were provided by the scholars themselves.

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.

On Tuesday, October 24, 2006, CMES launched the first phase of its brand new website. The new site was envisioned and created to better serve the CMES community in a number of ways: first, to organize the site in a more user-friendly, audience-specific way; second, to improve the quality and breadth of the content; third, to enable CMES staff to update it more easily; and fourth, to enable every-day users (students, staff, faculty, etc.) some ability to interact with the site through the creation of web tools and forms.

The CUE Guide (Committee on Undergraduate Education Guide) serves as an indispensable tool for Harvard students during the course selection process by supplementing other sources of information such as the Courses of Instruction, academic advisors, and shopping period visits to classes.