Guest lecturer Rami Khouri visited the Center for Middle Eastern
Studies in the fall of 2008 for his lecture “New Challenges Facing a
New American Administration: A View from Within the Middle East.”
Khouri is currently the Director of the Issam Fares Institute of Public
Policy and International Affairs at AUB and is featured in numerous
publications.
Lessons in Islamic Jurisprudence far outstrips in importance the run-of-the-mill translation in Islamic studies. In a remark that could apply to many published works in the field, Mottahedeh reports that he had produced an initial translation that was in an important way inadequate: “I immediately prepared a translation which I considered accurate but which was almost entirely unintelligible to the intelligent lay reader.”
Zachary Lockman, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at New York University and an alumnus of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, reviews Roger Owen's latest book. Roger Owen is Acting Director of CMES and the A.J. Meyer Professor of History.
Guest lecturer Rami Khouri visited the Center for Middle Eastern
Studies in the fall of 2008 for his lecture “New Challenges Facing a
New American Administration: A View from Within the Middle East.”
Khouri is currently the Director of the Issam Fares Institute of Public
Policy and International Affairs at AUB and is featured in numerous
publications.
CMES AM student Sabeen Virani reviews Vali Nasr's historical account of sectarian conflicts in the Muslim world.
Lessons in Islamic Jurisprudence far outstrips in importance the run-of-the-mill translation in Islamic studies. In a remark that could apply to many published works in the field, Mottahedeh reports that he had produced an initial translation that was in an important way inadequate: “I immediately prepared a translation which I considered accurate but which was almost entirely unintelligible to the intelligent lay reader.”
Zachary Lockman, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at New York University and an alumnus of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, reviews Roger Owen's latest book. Roger Owen is Acting Director of CMES and the A.J. Meyer Professor of History.
Roger Owen, A.J. Meyer Professor of History, reviews Zachary Lockman's latest book. Zachary Lockman is an alumnus of CMES.
Jesse Marglin, an AB/AM student, reviews Hollywood's latest blockbuster set in the Middle East.
As a long-time aficionado of the Boston-Cambridge Middle Eastern dining scene, Barbara Petzen shares her favorites.
Richard Johnson (AM '05) reviews Eran Riklis' award-winning film.
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