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.
Muhsin Mahdi was remembered in the September 13 issue of the Harvard Gazette.
Muslims after 9/11: Political Participation and Civic Engagement was awarded a generous grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to examine the political and civic integration of Muslims in the United States and Europe in the post-9/11 environment.
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.
Each semester the Center for Middle Eastern Studies publishes an online resource of Middle East-related area studies and language courses for use by students, faculty, associates and visitors to the website. This semester we are delighted to announce the creation of a wide array of new courses, in various disciplines, on the Middle East.
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.
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