e-cmes Prospective Students
Current Students
Faculty, Staff and Associates
Visiting Researchers
CMES Alumni
K - 12 Educators
Events
« Wednesday October 17, 2007 »
Wed
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm

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:

Start: 7:30 pm
End: 10:00 pm

. . . 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

Start: 11:30 am
End: 2:00 pm

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

Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm

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

Start: 4:30 pm
End: 6:00 pm

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

Start: 6:15 pm

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>.