The BOSTON PALESTINE FILM FESTIVAL comes to HARVARD LAW SCHOOL for four
screenings on Oct 2 and Oct 3.
All screenings are FREE, open to all, and in LANGDELL SOUTH.

The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean StudiesTufts UniversityInvites you to attend:Fares Center Lecture SeriesFall 2007Shai Feldman"The Middle East at 2008: Challenges for the U.S."Judy and Sidney Swartz Director's Chair of the Crown Center for MiddleEast Studies and Professor of Politics, Brandeis University5:30 pm - Cabot Intercultural Center, 7th FloorOpen to the Public Tufts University

MIT's Center for International Studies presents a Starr Forum on the book:
"The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy"

Featuring a discussion with the authors John Mearsheimer (University of Chicago) and Stephen Walt (Harvard University) with additional remarks by Bruce Riedel (Brookings Institution)

Wednesday, October 3
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Kirsch Auditorium, Stata Center, MIT bldg. 32-123
For more information, contact starrforum@mit.edu

Death and Taxes: A Rational Theory of Democratic Grand Strategy

WCFIA/CMES
Middle East Seminar
Lenore G. Martin, Sara Roy, and Herbert C. Kelman, Co-chairs

Presents

HELGA BAUMGARTEN
DAAD Professor of Political Science, and head of the M.A. program Democracy
and Human Rights, Birzeit University, Palestine

On

Hamas and the Challenge of Democratic Transformation in Palestine

Bio: Dr. Mandel is Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and History at Brown University. She is currently writing a book entitled Beyond Antisemitism: Muslims and Jews in Contemporary France. Her scholarly expertise and interest include aspects of modern Jewish history, including history of the Holocaust, Zionism and the birth of the state of Israel, and history of American Jews.

TURKISH FILMS
with English Subtitles
October 4, 6 pm
CGIS (1730 Cambridge Street) Tsai Auditorium (S010)
Hokkabaz / The Magician
2006

Screenplay: Cem Yilmaz

Directors: Cem Yilmaz & Ali Taner Baltaci

Pizza and soft drinks available at 5pm
Co-sponsored by the Outreach Center at the Center for Middle Eastern
Studies
Description: Reda, who lives with his family in southern France, is about
to take his college entrance exams. One day he is told to drive his father
to Mecca to perform the Hajj. The journey is difficult because of the
distance, and due to the emotional and generational distance between him
and his father. Ultimately, the journey to Mecca is as impacting as the
arrival to the holy city.

Middle East Film Screening: "Le Grand Voyage"

BELFER CENTER'S INTERNATIONAL SECURITY PROGRAM
"On Borders and [dis] Orders: The Effects of the International Norm of
'Border Fixity' (The Case of Lebanon)"
a brown bag seminar with
Boaz Atzili
Research Fellow, International Security Program
Date: Thursday, October 11
Time: 12:15 - 2:00 P.M. (Coffee and Tea Provided)
Place: Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369
Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come - first served basis. We
hope that you can join us.

*The Dubai Initiative, *
*Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs *
*Presents *
*A Seminar with Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Author of **Imperial Life in the
Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone *
*Date:* October 11, 2007
*Time:* 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
*Place:* Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369
The Dubai Initiative, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs is
proud to host a talk with Rajiv Chandrasekaran, author of *Imperial Life in
the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone * and National Editor of The
Washington Post.

On Friday, October 12th at 3:00pm, hear Ian Klaus read from his
recently published memoir Elvis Is Titanic: Classroom Tales from
the Other Iraq at the Harvard Book Store. Klaus is a PhD candidate
in history. Details of the event can be found on the Harvard Book
Store's website at:
http://www.harvard.com/events/press_release.php?id=1905

>From the publisher...

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) proudly presents the 2007 H.A.R. Gibb Arabic & Islamic Studies Lectures October 15-17, 2007, by Professor Doctor Jürgen Paul, the Professor of Islamic Studies at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.

Professor Paul will lecture on the topic of "Failed and ephemeral states in the medieval history of eastern Iran and Transoxiana". The lectures include:

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) proudly presents the 2007 H.A.R. Gibb Arabic & Islamic Studies Lectures October 15-17, 2007, by Professor Doctor Jürgen Paul, the Professor of Islamic Studies at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.

Professor Paul will lecture on the topic of "Failed and ephemeral states in the medieval history of eastern Iran and Transoxiana". The lectures include:

CENTER FOR MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
THE MIDDLE EAST FORUM
Fall 2007
Roger Owen and Sara Roy, Co-Chairs

38 Kirkland Street
First floor Reception Lounge (102)
Cambridge, MA

Presents a lecture by
Jon Alterman

Tuesday, October 16, 2007
4-6pm
Jon Alterman is a Senior Fellow and the Director of the Middle East
Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC.

. . . a magnificent demonstration of the power of theatre to change
the terms of public debate. The monologues make visible - live, in real
time, in close physical proximity - women, emotions, and beliefs that
are hidden from the non-Muslim world." Thomas Sellar, Editor, Theater
The American Repertory Theatre is pleased to invite you to the New
England premiere of Dutch actress/writer/director Adelheid Roosen's The
Veiled Monologues. Scheduled for one week only, from Tuesday, October 16
through Sunday, October 21, performances will be held.at the A.R.T.'s

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) proudly presents the 2007 H.A.R. Gibb Arabic & Islamic Studies Lectures October 15-17, 2007, by Professor Doctor Jürgen Paul, the Professor of Islamic Studies at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.

Professor Paul will lecture on the topic of "Failed and ephemeral states in the medieval history of eastern Iran and Transoxiana". The lectures include:

. . . a magnificent demonstration of the power of theatre to change
the terms of public debate. The monologues make visible - live, in real
time, in close physical proximity - women, emotions, and beliefs that
are hidden from the non-Muslim world." Thomas Sellar, Editor, Theater
The American Repertory Theatre is pleased to invite you to the New
England premiere of Dutch actress/writer/director Adelheid Roosen's The
Veiled Monologues. Scheduled for one week only, from Tuesday, October 16
through Sunday, October 21, performances will be held.at the A.R.T.'s

A panel discussion on The Report of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Task Force on Muslim American Civic and Political Engagement

Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

Jocelyne Dakhlia

Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

Public Islam in France Today

Discussant: Jocelyne Cesari

Director of the Islam in the West Program, Harvard University

Seminar on Modern Turkey
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Cemal Kafadar and Lenore G. Martin
Co-Chairs
Invite you to a lecture on
"Turkish Secularism and Political Islam"

Dr. Omer Taspinar
Professor of National Security Strategy, U.S. National War College

The Semitic Museum of Harvard University presents a lecture by Dr.
Mark Lehner, Ancient Egypt Research Associates, Sperry Hall, Harvard
Divinity School, 45 Francis Ave., Cambridge, on Wednesday, October 17
at 7:00 pm. entitled "A Tale of Two Towns: 4,500-Year Old Urban
Footprints at Giza, Egypt," preceded by a reception at 6:15 at the
Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge. Call Dena Davis at
617-495-4631 for more information or write <davis4@fas.harvard.edu>.

. . . a magnificent demonstration of the power of theatre to change
the terms of public debate. The monologues make visible - live, in real
time, in close physical proximity - women, emotions, and beliefs that
are hidden from the non-Muslim world." Thomas Sellar, Editor, Theater
The American Repertory Theatre is pleased to invite you to the New
England premiere of Dutch actress/writer/director Adelheid Roosen's The
Veiled Monologues. Scheduled for one week only, from Tuesday, October 16
through Sunday, October 21, performances will be held.at the A.R.T.'s

a talk presented by
Dr. Banafsheh Keynoush
October 18, 12:00 - 1:30pm
Carr Center Conference Room, Rubenstein 219
The Kennedy School of Government
Dr. Banafsheh Keynoush is a lecturer in Political Science at San Francisco
State University. Her PhD dissertation from the Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy at Tufts University examined the foreign relations of Saudi
Arabia and her native country Iran from the Gulf War to present. She has
worked as a translator for three Iranian presidents and Peace Nobel

Conversations on Ottoman History
Sohbet-i Osmaniye
Jocelyne Dakhlia,
EHESS, Paris
"Must an entente be cordial? The Mediterranean Lingua Franca"
Oct 18 at 12 noon
CGIS, N262

Dr. Naomi Chazan, the Head of the School of Government and Society
at the Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo, former member of the Israeli
Knesset and a board member of the New Israel Fund, will speak on
“Assessing the US Role in the Israel-Palestinian Conflict”. The
event will take place at the Kennedy School of Government, in Room 275
of the Taubman Building. Refreshments will be served.

WCFIA/CMES
Middle East Seminar
Lenore G. Martin, Sara Roy, and Herbert C. Kelman, Co-chairs
Presents
HENRY SIEGMAN
Director, U.S./Middle East Project, Inc.; Research Professor, Sir

Joseph Hotung Middle East Program, School of Oriental and
African Studies, University of London.
On
The International Middle East Peace Conference: Reaching a Successful
Resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Thursday, October 18, 2007
4:00–6:00 p.m.

Please join The Center for Public Leadership
John F. Kennedy School of Government
and the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies for:

Leading by Dividing: The Case of Greece and Turkey after 1922

Bruce Clark
International Security Editor, The Economist, and author of Twice A
Stranger: The Mass Expulsions that Forged Modern Turkey and Greece

4:15 – 6 p.m., Thursday, October 18, 2007
Lower Level Conference Room
Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies
27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way

HARVARD
OTTOMAN AND TURKISH STUDIES
PROGRAM
proudly presents

TURKISH FILM
with English Subtitles

October 18; 5:30 pm
Boylston 110, Fong Auditorium

Iklimler / Climates
2006. Screenplay & Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan

This Event is for Educational Purposes
All Harvard Affiliates are Welcome - Free of Charge

. . . a magnificent demonstration of the power of theatre to change
the terms of public debate. The monologues make visible - live, in real
time, in close physical proximity - women, emotions, and beliefs that
are hidden from the non-Muslim world." Thomas Sellar, Editor, Theater
The American Repertory Theatre is pleased to invite you to the New
England premiere of Dutch actress/writer/director Adelheid Roosen's The
Veiled Monologues. Scheduled for one week only, from Tuesday, October 16
through Sunday, October 21, performances will be held.at the A.R.T.'s

. . . a magnificent demonstration of the power of theatre to change
the terms of public debate. The monologues make visible - live, in real
time, in close physical proximity - women, emotions, and beliefs that
are hidden from the non-Muslim world." Thomas Sellar, Editor, Theater
The American Repertory Theatre is pleased to invite you to the New
England premiere of Dutch actress/writer/director Adelheid Roosen's The
Veiled Monologues. Scheduled for one week only, from Tuesday, October 16
through Sunday, October 21, performances will be held.at the A.R.T.'s

The Zinner Forum
in the Irving Schneider and Family Building

Please join us for a two day conference on the political map of the Middle East today presented by an international array of experts. On Saturday panelists will provide an overview of regional concerns. Sunday's panels will delve into issues raised by Iran, Syria, Gulf states, Israel, and Palestine.

Conference Program.

. . . a magnificent demonstration of the power of theatre to change
the terms of public debate. The monologues make visible - live, in real
time, in close physical proximity - women, emotions, and beliefs that
are hidden from the non-Muslim world." Thomas Sellar, Editor, Theater
The American Repertory Theatre is pleased to invite you to the New
England premiere of Dutch actress/writer/director Adelheid Roosen's The
Veiled Monologues. Scheduled for one week only, from Tuesday, October 16
through Sunday, October 21, performances will be held.at the A.R.T.'s

The Zinner Forum
in the Irving Schneider and Family Building

Please join us for a two day conference on the political map of the Middle East today presented by an international array of experts. On Saturday panelists will provide an overview of regional concerns. Sunday's panels will delve into issues raised by Iran, Syria, Gulf states, Israel, and Palestine.

Conference Program.

MIT Aga Khan Program Fall 2007

"Orientalism, Self-Orientalism and Identity
Politics: The Mosque in Western Europe and North
America"
Nebahat Avcioglu
Visiting Lecturer, AKPIA@MIT
Columbia University
Institute for Scholars Paris, France
"Mosques-to-go"
Azra Aksamija
PhD Student, AKPIA@MITArtist Affiliate, Center
for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT

All events are on Mondays at 5:30
pm in MIT room 3-133

The Middle East Forum, the Middle East Initiative and the Outreach Center
invite you to

"Primary Sources of Hezbollah: Translations of the Statements of Hassan Nasrallah"
a public lecture and discussion with

Ellen Khouri
Ellen Khouri is, most recently, the translator of writings and statements of Hassan Nasrallah for the book, Voice of Hezbollah: The Statements of Sayed Hassan Nasrallah (Verso, Aug. 2007)

Room 102
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies
38 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA.

FRONTLINE will air our new program "Showdown with Iran." this Tuesday, Oct. 23 on PBS.

Belfer Center Library, Littauer 369
A Seminar with Rami Khouri, Senior Research Fellow for the Dubai Initiative,
Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International
Affairs at the American University of Beirut, Editor-at-Large for the
Beirut-based Daily Star.
Lunch will be served. RSVP required.

Martin Kramer will lecture on the topic "Which Middle East Conflict?" as part of the CMES Director's Series.
Lunch will be served following the event.

Gil Anidjar will lecture on the topic 'The Semitic Question' as part of the CMES Director's Series.
"Anidjar succeeds in shifting our understanding of Christianity's relationship to modernity, to power, to Jews and Arabs, and to Judaism and Islam."
Mitchell B. Hart, University of Florida
"Anidjar is a master of Derridean deconstruction, a provocative analyst of the role of Western Christianity in the formation of contemporary hostilities."
Talal Asad, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Lunch will be served following the lecture

Speaker: Prof. John Dugard on "Palestine, Human Rights and International
Law"

Professor John Dugard is Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Situation
in the Occupied Palestinian Territory to the UN Human Rights Council. He
is Professor Emeritus at the University of Leiden, Netherlands, and
Professor of Human Rights Law at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
Starr Auditorium, Belfer Building, Second Floor, Refreshments will be
served.

Co-sponsored by the University Committee on Human Rights

Dr. Richard E. Hennessey, the Director of Merrimack College's Islamic and Middle Eastern
Studies Program, is pleased to announce that Professor Houchang Chehabi of Boston University
will be speaking at the college at 7:00 pm, Thursday, October 25 in the college's Cascia Hall.
The subject of his presentation will be the role played by Iran in Lebanon.

Professor Chehabi is a specialist in International Law and in Middle Eastern Politics and
Cultural History and has a particular expertise in Iran and Lebanon. With a License from

Talk in Arabic
Arabic Program at Harvard presents:
Sinan Antoon, Iraqi poet, novelist and translator.
Assistant Professor in Arabic Culture at New York University
“Writing Baghdad from Exile”
Friday, October 26, 2007, 12-1 pm
Emerson Hall, Room 101

Shaista Aziz, Press Officer, Doctors for Iraq
Dr. Evan Lyon, Partners In Health

Pizza will be served.
Kresge 110 (next to the cafeteria), Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave.

featuring,
Mehmet SANLIKOL, vocals / Beth Bahia COHEN, violin / Eylem BASALDI, violin /
Onur DILISEN, violin / Boujeema RAZGUI, nay / Terry LEMANIS, electric saz /
Cory CALI, electric guitar / Walid ZAIRI, electric bass / Cem MUTLU,
percussion / Michael DAVIS, percussion
Classics of a controversial musical style
"Arabesk", for forty years the dominant popular music style in Turkey, has
continued to absorb into it many strands of the Arabic and Turkish musical
traditions, combining it with contemporary social themes and commercial

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY WING
MONDAY SEMINAR SERIES PRESENTS
"A Year into the Lebanon2 War: NGO-ing Mizrahi-Arab Paradoxes, and a One State Vision for Palestine/Israel"
A TALK BY Smadar Lavie
Hubert H. Humphrey Distinguished Visiting Professor of International Studies, Macalester College

The GSAS Harvard Middle Eastern Cultural Association invites you to its first
general meeting on Monday, October 29 at 5:30 PM at the Center for Middle East
Studies.

Join us as we discuss our plans for the coming semester and share ideas for our
organization! We welcome returning members, new members, and all levels of
interest!

Our plans for the coming year include Middle East theme parties, an Iraqi film
festival, and Arabic/Turkish/Persian/Hebrew poetry readings.

We look forward to seeing/meeting you!

M.I.T.Emile Bustani Middle East SeminarFall 2007PresentsDR. AUGUSTUS RICHARD NORTONProfessor of Anthropology and International RelationsBoston University"LEBANON'S POLITICAL GRIDLOCK" Tuesday, October 30, 20074:30–6:30 p.m.E51-095 70 Memorial DriveCambridge

ISLAM IN THE WEST
GRADUATE RESEARCH WORKSHOP

We are pleased to invite all graduate students as well as young researchers
from all departments and schools of Harvard to attend the Islam in the West
Graduate Student Research Workshop.

The seminar provides a forum for graduate students who are interested in
topics related to Islam and Muslim communities in North America and Europe to:

MIDDLE EAST SEMINAR
Lenore G. Martin, Sara Roy & Herbert C. Kelman, Co-Chairs
Jointly sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

AUGUSTUS RICHARD NORTON
Professor, International Relations and Anthropology, Boston University
RAMI G. KHOURI
Editor-at-large, The Daily Star; Director, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, American University of Beirut.

HARVARD
OTTOMAN AND TURKISH STUDIES
PROGRAM
proudly presents

TURKISH FILMS
with English Subtitles

November 1, 5:30 pm
Boylston 110, Fong Auditorium

Iki Gen Kaz / 2 Girls
2005. Screenplay & Director: Kutlug Ataman
(based on the novel by Perihan Magden)

Come see a new documentary with a discussion and Q & A with the director
and Dr. Olga Davidson of the ILEX Foundation.

Iran: Seven Faces of a Civilization

Thursday, November 1 at 7pm
Room 250, Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Harvard University
Directions:
http://map.harvard.edu/level3.cfm?mapname=camb_allston&tile=F6&quadrant=C&series=M

The Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University and The
Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University are proud to
present The Underground Iranian Rock Band Kiosk
Panel Discussion and Concert
November 2-3, 2007

A panel discussion on Art, Politics, Culture, and the Underground Music
Scene in Iran with Arash Sobhani, lead singer and lyricist of “Kiosk,”
and Babak Khiavchi, one of the most
prominent underground music producers and “Kiosk” band member.
Moderated by Dr. Naghmeh Sohrabi, Crown Center for Middle East Studies,
Brandeis University.
This event is free and open to the public.
Please be advised that space is limited.

ISLAMIC INTELLECTUAL HISTORY WORKSHOP
presents

REVELATION IN THE PROPHET'S SLEEP

a lecture by
Alexander Key
PhD student at NELC, Harvard University
Friday 2 November, 2007
3:00 pm
Room 201, Semitic Museum

Everyone is welcome.