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

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

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

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.

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

All members of the Harvard community are cordially invited to attend the
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program's first annual conference
entitled, "Interpreting the Islamic Tradition in the Contemporary World."
Events will be held on Saturday, November 3 and Sunday, November 4. The agenda for the conference events is below. The conference is free, including the lunch reception on November 3 and the Gamelan performance on November 4. The events will take place on the first
floor of the Barker Center both days.

“Kiosk” in concert for the first time on the East Coast! Kiosk is a Persian blues/rock/jazz band established by a group of
friends some years ago in a basement in Isfahan and Tehran.

All members of the Harvard community are cordially invited to attend the
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program's first annual conference
entitled, "Interpreting the Islamic Tradition in the Contemporary World."
Events will be held on Saturday, November 3 and Sunday, November 4. The agenda for the conference events is below. The conference is free, including the lunch reception on November 3 and the Gamelan performance on November 4. The events will take place on the first
floor of the Barker Center both days.

The Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies Cabot
Intercultural Center Tufts University160 Packard Avenue Medford,Massachusetts 02155

http://farescenter.tufts.edu
For more information contact: Omar Dauhajre @
617-627-6560

Monday, November 5, 2007 7:00 - 8:30 pm

Fares Center Conference room(Mugar 129)
Fares Center roundtables

The Harvard College Human Rights Advocates presents

A Hummus and Human Rights Event
Turkey and Northern Iraq:

What happens to human rights in a frenzy of nationalism?

A presentation by Halil Berktay, a professor of Turkish History, on the
impact of the current violence on the Turkish-Iraqi border on human
rights in Turkey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halil_Berktay

"What makes a Kurd or a Sunni or a Shia have something in common is a national library," he said. "It is where the national identity of a country begins."
--Dr. Saad Eskander

Saad Eskander, Director General of the Iraq National Library and Archive, will speak on the topic 'Iraq National Archives: Inherited Problems and Present Challenges'.

Lunch to be served following the lecture.

This event will be rescheduled during spring semester.  

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Seminar on Modern Turkey
Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Cemal Kafadar and Lenore G. Martin
Co-Chairs

Invite you to a lecture on
"Turkey, the US, Iraq and the Kurds"

Ilnur Cevik
Chief Columnist, The New Anatolian

The Outreach
Center at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the
Middle East
Initiative of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
University

are proud to sponsor

MIDDLE EAST FILM SCREENING
Fall 2007

Wednesday 7 November, 6:15 – 8:30 PM (pizza/soda at 6:00 PM), Starr Auditorium,

Kennedy School of Government

November 8, 2007
John F. Kennedy School of Government

We cordially invite you to the inaugural conference
between the Dubai Initiative, Belfer Center for Science
and International Affairs and the Dubai School of Government

A brown bag seminar with Kajsa Ji Noe Oest
Research Fellow, International Security Program

The ISLAMIC LEGAL
STUDIES PROGRAM,
Harvard Law School,
presents

The Abd al-Razzaq al-Sanhuri Lecture Series on
Legal Interpretation in the Muslim World

Second Lecture by

Prof. Hossein Modarressi
Bayard Dodge Professor of Near East Studies &
Professor of Islamic Law, Princeton University;
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Visiting Professor of Law (HLS)

on

"Qur'an as a Legal Document:

Tradition vs. Modernism"

Friends and colleagues,

Location: CGIS S250, CGIS South Building Second Level

1730 Cambridge Street

Olivier Roy is a professor at l'École des hautes études

en sciences sociales in Paris, and a research director

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies &
The Arabic Language Program at Harvard

present an informational discussion:

Summer and Semester Study in Arabic:
United States and Study Abroad Programs

Coffee and cookies will be served!

consult link:  www.wm.edu/aata/summer.php